Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm

Please join us for an afternoon with the WORLD OF MATTER project, a networked endeavour of artistic investigations into the visual culture of resource ecologies.

World of Matter ― New Material

Initiated in 2011 by an interdisciplinary group of artists and scholars, WORLD OF MATTER responds to the urgent need for new forms of representation that shift resource-related debates from a market driven domain to open platforms for engaged public discourse. Through a web platform as well as through exhibitions and public debates, it brings together a wide range of visual source material from artistic research in order to allow for connections between different struggles, territories, actors and ideas.

On Wednesday, 11 January 2017, 2pm-6pm artists and writers MABE BETHÔNICO, LONNIE VAN BRUMMELEN, UWE H. MARTIN and FRAUKE HUBER, and PETER MÖRTENBÖCK and HELGE MOOSHAMMER will come together at Tensta konsthall and present new material produced over the course of the last two years.

Mabe Bethonico will discuss her recent archival research into pictorial modes of colonial resource expeditions and acquisitions, Lonnie van Brummelen will present new footage on alternative knowledge systems of human/non-human co-existence gathered during her long-term fieldwork in Suriname, Uwe H. Martin and Frauke Huber will show the new chapter Dry West of their long-term project LandRush featuring new material from their visual investigations into the changing hydrological societies of the American West, and Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer will discuss material from their recent research into the creation of ‚frontier climates‘, the employment of distinct cultural narratives to open up new spaces of resource exploitation.

In a mix of presentations and open conversations, we will explore this new material in terms of its potential to challenge human-centred framings of resources that foreground issues of consumption and profit-making. We will discuss how picturing resources differently can open up possibilities to also think about resources differently.

11 January 2017

Tensta konsthall
STOCKHOLM

This presentation is part of Tensta konsthall’s multi-year inquiry The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice into the relationship between art and solidarity movements, performed in a series of commissions, exhibitions, workshops, presentations and film screenings.