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Du inviteres til et foredrag/talk af professor Christine Ross arrangeret af forskningsprogrammet “Contemporary Aesthetics and Technology” og “Centre for Research in Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions” ved Aarhus Universitet, i samarbejde med Kunsthal Aarhus.

➡ Det er gratis at deltage, men vi anbefaler at sikre sig en plads ved at booke en gratis billet her på Billetto.

OM FOREDRAGET
Dette foredrag undersøger kunstens reaktion på migrationens udvikling i Nordamerika, især inden for grænseområderne mellem USA og Mexico og mellem nord og syd. Med fokus på kunstværker af den mexicanske kunstner Felipe Baeza og Isuma, et inuit-kollektiv af kunstnere med base i Igloolik (Nunavut), undersøges de måder, hvorpå de etablerer forholdet mellem migration, nekropolitik (et begreb, som den camerounske filosof Achille Mbembe opfandt for at beskrive en "døds- og voldspolitik ") og klimaforandringer. Baezas collager og Isumas video- og webcast-interventioner bekræfter på visse måder Mixed Migration Centre's 2022 Review, hvori det hedder, at "klimaforandringer og ekstremt vejr fortsat er den vigtigste drivkraft for fordrivelse på verdensplan". Christine Ross vil dog foreslå, at deres kunstværker udvider forståelsen af klimaets rolle i migration: De bringer klimaforandringer og klimamigration frem i lyset, men afslører også, hvordan klimaet gøres til et våben mod migranter samt klimaafhængig biodiversitet som et redskab til migranters overlevelse, klimarettigheder og indfødt klimaviden. Baezas og Isumas opfordringer til ansvarlighed og historiefortælling fortjener vores fulde opmærksomhed: de beriger det migrationsrelaterede begreb om sameksistens og den hertil knyttede praksis.

Foredraget er støttet af Novo Nordisk Fonden.

BIOGRAFI
Christine Ross er professor og Distinguished James McGill Professor i samtidskunsthistorie ved McGill University. Hendes forskningsområder omfatter samtidig mediekunst, syn og visualitet, kunst og depression, rekonfigurationer af tid og temporalitet i nutidig mediekunst, deltagelsesmedier og -kunst, kunstneriske omdefinitioner af den offentlige sfære samt migration.
Hendes seneste bogprojekt, med titlen ”Art for Coexistence: Unlearning the Way We See Migration” - en undersøgelse af samtidskunstens reaktion på migrationskriserne - er for nylig blevet udgivet af MIT Press (2022). Andre bogudgivelser omfatter: “The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age” (medredaktør), “The Past is the Present; It's the Future too: The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art” og “The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression”.

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You are invited to a talk by Professor Christine Ross organized by the research program “Contemporary Aesthetics and Technology” and the “Centre for Research in Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions” at Aarhus University, in collaboration with Kunsthal Aarhus.

➡ Participation is free, but we recommend securing a seat by taking out a free ticket here on Billetto.

ABOUT THE TALK
This lecture examines art’s response to the evolution of migration in North America, particularly within US-Mexico and North-South border zones. Focusing on and contrasting artworks by Mexican artist Felipe Baeza and Isuma, an Inuit collective of creators based in Igloolik (Nunavut), it investigates the ways in which they establish the relationship between migration, necropolitics (the term coined by Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe to describe a “politics of death and injury”) and climate change. Baeza’s collages and Isuma’s video-and-webcast interventions are not without confirming the Mixed Migration Centre’s 2022 Review, which states that “climate change and extreme weather continue to be the most significant driver of displacement worldwide.” I want to suggest, however, that their artworks are widening the understanding of the role of climate in migration: they bring climate change and climate migration to the fore, but also disclose the weaponization of climate as an antimigrant measure, climate-dependent biodiversity as a tool for migrant survival, climate rights, and Indigenous climate knowledge. Baeza’s and Isuma’s calls for responsibility and storytelling deserve our full attention: they enrich the migration-related notion and practice of coexistence.

The talk is supported by Novo Nordisk Fonden.

BIOGRAPHY
Christine Ross is Professor and Distinguished James McGill Professor in Contemporary Art History at McGill University. Her areas of research include contemporary media art, vision and visuality, art and depression, reconfigurations of time and temporality in contemporary media art practices, participatory media and art, artistic redefinitions of the public sphere, and migration.
Her most recent book project, entitled Art for Coexistence: Unlearning the Way We See Migration—a study of contemporary art’s response to the migration crises—has just been released by MIT Press (2022). Other book publications include: “The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age” (coed), “The Past is the Present; It’s the Future too: The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art” and “The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression”.