Screening, presentation & artist talks

With Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi, Katrin Hornek

Moderated by Margarida Mendes

Taking a cue from the more emergent properties of the Anthropocene, these two artist talks focus on making durational processes of accumulation sensible. Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi present their most recent work Labour Lung which uses a generative audio piece to depict the deleterious effects of smoking opium on the lungs and tell a story about how the corporeal effects of opium relate to colonialist and capitalist extraction. Artist Katrin Hornek discusses her work A Landmass to Come which employs literal earth to convey a speculative tale of the Latvian geological landscape and the industries that flourished thanks to it.

Hornek will present a guided journey. For this, please use headphones, make yourself comfortable and prepare a piece of hand-sized clay. If you don’t have clay at hand, it helps to use some other formable material that you can imagine is clay, like a cloth.

The talks will conclude with a discussion led by artist and researcher Margarida Mendes.

The event will be streamed via The Shape of a Practice online environment: http://shape.anthropocene-curriculum.org