Geocinema: Framing Territories (2019), video still. © Geocinema
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Geocinema (Asia Bazdyrieva and Solveig Suess) in conversation with Stefanie Hessler, former Director Kunsthall Trondheim
March 4, 2020, Kunsthall Trondheim opened the exhibition Making of Earths – Geocinema's first solo show. In this episode, curator and director of Kunsthall Trondheim, Stefanie Hessler, meets the artists in a conversation about their project and the current exhibition.
In Making of Earths, Geocinema explore the longue durée of the modern trope that the future is manageable. If feminist and queer critiques have shown that totalising attempts to plan systems were flawed from the outset, today’s concurrent climate catastrophe, reactionary political situation, and social insecurity crystallise this in a way that is increasingly palpable. Previous certainties and promises of progress have crumbled, leaving behind conditions that feel destabilising for many. A chasm widens between the lived experience of overwhelming uncertainty on the ground and the mass of data collected to profit off of this instability. The visual cultures emerging from this moment are imbued with values and assumptions of the present and the future, which serve to mediate planetary sensing for political and economic interests.