Screenings, artist talks & performance
With Tia-Simone Gardner, Anna van Voorhis, Beate Geissler & Oliver Sann
Moderated by Ego Ahaiwe Sowinsk

Throughout the week, screening sessions and artist talks will conclude each nightly program, showcasing and creating windows into a variety of artistic practices. Two contributions from Mississippi. An Anthropocene River are opening the series, which attempt to negotiate different research practices of archiving and enacting embodied relationships to materialities and identities: Tia-Simone Gardner’s contributions The Un-Vessel (with Anna van Voorhis) and There’s Something in the Water examine land, water, and its historical uses that connect humans and geography through material of place, interrogating the complex relationships between american waterways, colonialism, migration and trade. In a performance entitled Hopium Economy, artists Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann share a trenchant story of addiction that traces the lines between industry, ecology, aspiration unfolded from the recent opium epidemic in the US.

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