Join us for a deep dive into the heat surrounding Susanne M. Winterling's exhibition A threshold-game of proximity, cluster and heat, through conversations and talks by Denise Ferreira da Silva, and Anita Akbarzadeh Solbu.
Ferreira da Silva is one of the most influential and radical thinkers alive today. Her theoretical work is aimed at decolonizing hundreds of years of Western scientific thinking, and seeing it from a non-anthropocentric perspective. How can we see the world outside of racist, human- and capital-oriented mindsets?
Anita Akbarzadeh Solbu, researcher at NTNU, opens the evening with her talk on Imaging technologies. Akbarzadeh Solbu's research challenges traditional scientific image processing, by pushing the boundaries of scientific imagination.
Program
7 pm
Anita Akbarzadeh Solbu
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(At the Kunsthall)
Imaging technologies – How the manipulation of every part of the imaging process in science results in imagining the most unthinkable things
7.30 pm
Denise Ferreira da Silva
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(Online at the Kunsthall)
On Heat – Ferreira da Silva proposes a scientific focus on the forces that transform elements from one state to another, rather than on the elements themselves. In this case, she describes heat as a defining force that permeates unequal accumulation of wealth, climate change and refugee flows.
8 pm
Denise Ferreira da Silva and Susanne M. Winterling
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(Hybrid: both at the Kunsthall and online)
The exhibition's artists Susanne M. Winterling and Denise Ferreira da Silva in conversation about how we can imagine the extra-human world through art.
The event will be held in English, and will be partly online and partly at the Kunsthall. The event will not be streamed online. Kunsthall Trondheim has stair-free entrance and Universal Design.
Free entry.
Warmly welcome!
Read more about the contributors here:
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Ferreira da Silva is an academic and an artist. She is currently a Professor at GRSJ at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) and an Adjunct Professor at Monash University’s Architecture, Design, and Art (Melbourne, Australia). She is currently Visiting Professor at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University (New York, United States).
She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), and Unpayable Debt (Sternberg Press, 2022) and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).
Her artistic works include the films Serpent Rain (2016), 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018), Soot Breath/Corpus Infinitum (2020), in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman; and the relational art practices Poethical Readings and Sensing Salon, in collaboration with Valentina Desideri. She has exhibited and lectured at major art venues, such as the Centre Pompidou (Paris), Whitechapel Gallery (London, MASP (Sāo Paulo), Guggenheim (New York), and MoMa (New York).
Anita Akbarzadeh Solbu
Akbarzadeh Solbu is a researcher at NTNU with expertise in a diverse set of imaging techniques. Through her research, she has explored materials on the micro/nanoscale and developed a fascination for how different imaging technologies offer new ways of seeing and understanding the world around us. She is currently exploring the cross-section between science and art and is passionate about communicating the creative potential of scientific knowledge and methods.
Susanne M. Winterling
Winterling is an artist living and working in Trondheim, Norway and Berlin, Germany. Recent exhibitions and projects include RADIUS CCA, Delft (2022), MOMENTA Biennale de l’image (2021), Schering Stiftung, Berlin (2021), Kunstverein Freiburg* (2020), Project 88, Mumbai *(2019), Parrotta Contemporary Art, Cologne (2019), Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2018). Since 2017, Winterling has worked on the ongoing artistic project on bioluminescence https://planetarysensing.com and since 2019, they’ve been a part of the working group on Dark Matter, Anti Matter and Condensed Matter https://dmamcm.susannewinterling.com. They were awarded a fellowship at Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study, UK, 2021/2022.
*With The Kalpana (Goutam Ghosh, Susanne M. Winterling, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay)