Terrestrial Accountability and Art - Reimagining

Abstract

An excerpt from the original abstract: "it has become utterly clear that we need new imaginaries and alternative scenarios. Should one of them be aimed at living and dying on this planet, following Donna Haraway’s description on ‘being terrestrial’, instead of pushing the idealistic proposal for leaving our planet. This could change our attitudes and the way we treat this planet with its multiplicity of life-forms. This would not mean that we would stop developments in the sciences, technology, and the arts. It would rather give us a direction and a filter for what and how to develop. This would potentially lead us to investigate the current conditions and environment in our localities; what kinds of artificial and (bio)technological entities would fit into the existing biological ecosystems? How to deal with difficult relations, which we have for example with parasites and viruses? 

One of the artistic research projects that I have produced question the negative definition of ticks as parasites and explores ways we can learn to live together with them. This project, together with a selection of works that includes other examples from my own artistic research as well as works by a range of other artists, will be used to illustrate old and new meta-level scenarios that point to the ways in which we act in, with and within the world in which we live and die."