August 01, 2024, 10 am – 2 pm
Many thanks to the curator & writer Vanina Saracino for her lecture Curating in the Anthropocene and discussing the works of our participants within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
“In this talk, Vanina Saracino will present her latest projects curated in public spaces and non-conventional venues, with a special focus on two editions of the Screen City Biennial: Other Minds (Archenhold Observatory, Berlin, 2022) and Ecologies – Lost, Found and Continued (Stavanger, Norway, 2019). She will argue that curating outside the white cube (or black box) is particularly significant for artistic positions rooted in ecological and socio-political concerns, in the era defined as the Anthropocene. This approach allows for reaching diverse audiences, interweaving them, and temporarily stepping outside our own epistemic bubbles—creating a platform for unexpected encounters, contagions, mutual fascinations, and frictions. Activating these connections is among the most creative and challenging aspects of curatorial work. The talk will also address the inevitable contradictions encountered when embracing a post-anthropocentric approach.” (Text by courtesy of Vanina Saracino)
Vanina Saracino (she/they) is an independent curator, writer, and lecturer. Her work focuses on artistic research that questions anthropocentric and binary worldviews from an intersectional perspective. Currently, her interests center on the solar energy transition, where she critiques the capitalist mode of understanding “sustainability” and proposes, instead, a more-than-human approach inspired by photosynthetic animals. She is developing the research project Solar Prospects: A Cosmic View on Excess Energy, which has been presented internationally in a number of university seminars and lectures.
Saracino has been curator of two editions of the Screen City Biennial, together with Daniela Arriado: Other Minds at Archenhold Observatory and other venues (Berlin, 2022), and Ecologies – Lost, Found and Continued (Stavanger, Norway, 2019). She has collaborated with several international institutions worldwide, including Kumu Art Museum and EKKM (Tallinn), Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi (Venice), TBA21 – Academy, Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo), MAM (Rio de Janeiro), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg), The EYE Film Institute (Amsterdam), and Centro Párraga (Murcia). With Alessandra Bergamaschi, she founded OLHO, a project about contemporary art and cinema initiated in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (2015–2018). Since 2021, Saracino has been serving as a Lecturer of Experimental Film and Media Art at Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin.
More information on the Vanina Saracino Website.
