OTHERWISE - Polymorphic Futures ist ein hybrides Festival, das sich dem Potenzial der künstlerischen Forschung widmet, zu gesellschaftlichen und ökologischen Transformationen beizutragen. Über acht Monate und in vier On- und Offline-Symposien werden Künstler*innen, Designer*innen und Forscher*innen in verschiedenen Formaten neue Praktiken erkunden und mit dem interessierten Publikum teilen. Die Präsentationen zeigen den work-in-progress und laden das Publikum ein, sich aktiv in die Entwicklungsprozesse einzubringen. OTHERWISE basiert auf der Prämisse, dass herausfordernde Zeiten neue Formen des Denkens und Handelns erfordern, und zwar kollaborative. Das zweite Online-Symposium widmet sich dem Thema Transformation.
Im zweiten Online-Symposium werden wir uns mit dem Thema Transformation beschäftigen. Wenn eine Krise zu einem Trauma führt, welche Art von Trauma erzeugt dann die Umweltkrise? Und gibt es ein Heilmittel? Wie können wir über Transformation nachdenken, ohne in neoliberale Parolen zurückzufallen, die jedes «Scheitern» als eine Chance für Wachstum propagieren? Und schliesslich: Wie können uns die darstellenden Künste dabei unterstützen, die komplexe Herausforderung der Umweltkrise zu meistern?
Mittwoch 28.07. | 19-22h
Interactive game with Grace Turtle Polifroni, Becoming Collective
Control Wars
We will explore and play with Control Wars, a game, and at the laboratory, offering a platform to its participants to examine and transcend systemic inertias engendering the present surface potentials for alternative realities from the imaginaries of emerging philosophical and theoretical discourse and worldviews. Participants will experiment with character development, auto-fiction, and world-building in this session, invoking relational and subjective transformations.
Donnerstag 29.07. | 19-21h
work-in-progress presentations with OTHERWISE fellows
The Future of the Earth: Pre-enacting Climate Scenarios - Patrick Gusset
Patrick tries to make climate futures available through the process of pre-enactment. Performed scenarios consist exclusively of scientific studies, their data, tables, diagrams and texts. Through pre-enactment, these scenarios come into use, which couples the reception of knowledge to a concrete spatial, temporal and sensual experience. The performative scenario thus evokes experiences that move beyond text-based or visual scenarios.
Masquerade - Bernadette Köbele
Bernadette will take you along the path of her colonial family story in Indonesia in the beginning of the 20th century and towards her interest in the postcolonial field: the masquerade of colonial society. The masquerade is a social technique which comes into use in contemporary white- and greenwashing narratives and practices of well-known multinationals and scientific researchers.
Freitag 30.07. | 19h
Wallmapu ex situ: Presentation by Trop Cher to share
Aldir Polymeris, Nina Willimann and Jose Cáceres Mardones will present their long-term project "Wallmapu ex situ" which deals with the history of Wallmapu in southern Chile. In the context of a speculative role play, experts from Chile and Switzerland take the perspective of non-human beings, who have become witnesses, observers, affected or profiteers of the transformation of this region from an indigenous territory to a landscape reshaped by agribusiness and plantation economy.
Freitag 30.07. | 19:45h
Traumatic Landscapes: Podium & Open Discussion
Although the climate crisis is a global phenomenon, its impacts are asymmetrically distributed. Global injustices are becoming increasingly apparent as a result of this process. Against centuries of violence and resource exploitation in the name of progress, who has the right to grieve? In this panel, we will discuss the uneven relationship between climate change and colonial histories. What traumas lie buried in landscapes around the world? How can they be uncovered and reclaimed? What evidence do they bear? And how do we orient ourselves in slowly vanishing worlds?
OTHERWISE fellows, Trop Cher to share, and Psychologists 4 Future, an initiative that provides psychological support for climate activists, come together to discuss the notion of climate trauma.
Link to all events will be share on the day via otherwise.network
more infos: otherwise.network Insta: @otherwise.network
OTHERWISE - Polymorphic Futures ist ein hybrides Festival, das sich dem Potenzial der künstlerischen Forschung widmet, zu gesellschaftlichen und ökologischen Transformationen beizutragen. Über acht Monate und in vier On- und Offline-Symposien werden Künstler*innen, Designer*innen und Forscher*innen in verschiedenen Formaten neue Praktiken erkunden und mit dem interessierten Publikum teilen. Die Präsentationen zeigen den work-in-progress und laden das Publikum ein, sich aktiv in die Entwicklungsprozesse einzubringen. OTHERWISE basiert auf der Prämisse, dass herausfordernde Zeiten neue Formen des Denkens und Handelns erfordern, und zwar kollaborative. Das zweite Online-Symposium widmet sich dem Thema Transformation.
Im zweiten Online-Symposium werden wir uns mit dem Thema Transformation beschäftigen. Wenn eine Krise zu einem Trauma führt, welche Art von Trauma erzeugt dann die Umweltkrise? Und gibt es ein Heilmittel? Wie können wir über Transformation nachdenken, ohne in neoliberale Parolen zurückzufallen, die jedes «Scheitern» als eine Chance für Wachstum propagieren? Und schliesslich: Wie können uns die darstellenden Künste dabei unterstützen, die komplexe Herausforderung der Umweltkrise zu meistern?
Mittwoch 28.07. | 19-22h
Interactive game with Grace Turtle Polifroni, Becoming Collective
Control Wars
We will explore and play with Control Wars, a game, and at the laboratory, offering a platform to its participants to examine and transcend systemic inertias engendering the present surface potentials for alternative realities from the imaginaries of emerging philosophical and theoretical discourse and worldviews. Participants will experiment with character development, auto-fiction, and world-building in this session, invoking relational and subjective transformations.
Donnerstag 29.07. | 19-21h
work-in-progress presentations with OTHERWISE fellows
The Future of the Earth: Pre-enacting Climate Scenarios - Patrick Gusset
Patrick tries to make climate futures available through the process of pre-enactment. Performed scenarios consist exclusively of scientific studies, their data, tables, diagrams and texts. Through pre-enactment, these scenarios come into use, which couples the reception of knowledge to a concrete spatial, temporal and sensual experience. The performative scenario thus evokes experiences that move beyond text-based or visual scenarios.
Masquerade - Bernadette Köbele
Bernadette will take you along the path of her colonial family story in Indonesia in the beginning of the 20th century and towards her interest in the postcolonial field: the masquerade of colonial society. The masquerade is a social technique which comes into use in contemporary white- and greenwashing narratives and practices of well-known multinationals and scientific researchers.
Freitag 30.07. | 19h
Wallmapu ex situ: Presentation by Trop Cher to share
Aldir Polymeris, Nina Willimann and Jose Cáceres Mardones will present their long-term project "Wallmapu ex situ" which deals with the history of Wallmapu in southern Chile. In the context of a speculative role play, experts from Chile and Switzerland take the perspective of non-human beings, who have become witnesses, observers, affected or profiteers of the transformation of this region from an indigenous territory to a landscape reshaped by agribusiness and plantation economy.
Freitag 30.07. | 19:45h
Traumatic Landscapes: Podium & Open Discussion
Although the climate crisis is a global phenomenon, its impacts are asymmetrically distributed. Global injustices are becoming increasingly apparent as a result of this process. Against centuries of violence and resource exploitation in the name of progress, who has the right to grieve? In this panel, we will discuss the uneven relationship between climate change and colonial histories. What traumas lie buried in landscapes around the world? How can they be uncovered and reclaimed? What evidence do they bear? And how do we orient ourselves in slowly vanishing worlds?
OTHERWISE fellows, Trop Cher to share, and Psychologists 4 Future, an initiative that provides psychological support for climate activists, come together to discuss the notion of climate trauma.
Link to all events will be share on the day via otherwise.network
more infos: otherwise.network Insta: @otherwise.network
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