November 14, 2024, 10 am – 2 pm
Many thanks to the artist Michelle-Marie Letelier for her lecture ON NATURAL RESOURCES, THEIR GEOPOLITICS AND MATERIALITIES 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, I present an introduction to my artistic practice, which is based on long-term research and multidisciplinary collaborations around specific, so-called „natural resources“: copper, coal, saltpetre, salmon and, more recently, slime. Departing from my biographical background having lived in one of the biggest open-pit copper mines in the world, my practice has been rendered by a reflection on extractivist canons and the ambivalent circumstances that these bring to local sea- and landscapes. These reflections have attuned with ecological and scientific matters, as well as humans / more-than-humans relations. My last output Salm Ethos, is a role play turned into an interactive theatrical performance using sound and hydrogels. My interest now is to expand these methodologies with the use of other technologies & presentation formats, further researching into bio-materials.” (Text by courtesy of Michelle-Marie Letelier)
Michelle-Marie Letelier (Chile, 1977) is an artist based in Berlin. She graduated from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2000, has participated in postgraduate programs such as Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT (2010, Berlin), ORGANISMO | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies (2024, TBA21–Academy & Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid), and as a guest student in the Experimental Media Design studies at the Universität der Künste (2008, Berlin).
Highly influenced by her early life in the Atacama Desert; between the Andes Mountains and the Paci$c Ocean, her work has been shown internationally in biennials, galleries, museums and institutions, among others: Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; KBH.G (Basel); Tabakalera (San Sebastián); Or Gallery (Vancouver); Kunstmuseum Bonn; Villa Romana (Florence); Stanislavsky Electrotheatre (Moscow); Gropius-Bau (Berlin); Screen City Biennial 2019 (Stavanger); Bienal Sur 2017 (Buenos Aires); El Museo de Los Sures (New York); Kunsthall 3,14 (Bergen); Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (Santiago); Fondazione Cini (Venice); Errant Bodies (Berlin); Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago); Museo de Bellas Artes (Santiago) and Kommunale Galerie Charlottenburg (Berlin).
Her videos and VR have been exhibited in international screenings and festivals, including: The Arctic Arts Festival 2021 (Harstad); Videonale.18 (Bonn); VRHAM! Festival 2020; WE ARE OCEAN 2019-2021 (Berlin & Marseille); East Asia Contemporary Art Space (Shanghai); 5th Mercosur Biennial (Porto Alegre) and X Video and Media Arts Biennial (Santiago).
More information on the Michelle-Marie Letelier Website.
