2.11.20 | Rather than a matter of reducing CO2 emissions, sustainability pertains in fact to the nature and structure of relations within a given ecosystem, and is not definable in itself. Thus it acts as a question which can only receive situated, contextual answers. In this way, sustainability can be made a site of empowerment, where awareness for present needs, purposes, and opportunities, replaces setting predetermined targets (such as that of reaching net zero CO2 emissions). This itself represents nothing else but a change of future paradigm: from a future envisioned as a target to be reached in a more or less distant time-space (the naturalized way of thinking about the future in terms of making plans, i.e. forecasting or foresight) to futures envisioned as open-ended processes in the making. Rather than finding orientation for the future, the aim then becomes instead that of keeping futures open.
Curatorial position at Shedhalle, Zurich
21.02.20 | From July 2020 on, I am a member together with artists Lucie Tuma and Michelangelo Miccolis of the curatorial board of Shedhalle under the artistic leadership of Thea Reifler and Philipp Bergmann.
The report ‘Dance Promotion in Switzerland – Panorama 2017’ is out!
30.08.19 | For the first time, the conditions in the Swiss dance sector, still insufficient despite many efforts, are confirmed by statistical data collected from more than 60 funding bodies and as many dance venues and festivals.
Positioning study of cultural center Usine à gaz in Nyon after infrastructure extension
4.07.19 | After undertaking important transformations, the Usine à Gaz will open again in 2021 in Nyon (CH). What are the needs and what is a strategy for this new cultural infrastructure situated between Geneva and Lausanne?
Talking Future: speculation, utopia and simulation in art
17.05.19 | alpha nova & galerie futura Berlin
A conversation on speculation, utopia and simulation with artists Valerian Blos, Mikala Hyldig Dal, and Gosia Lehmann.
An exercise in addressing the future critically
Lecture-workshop | 1.45min (can be reduced to 1h) | contact me if interested This lecture-workshop is built around two parts:…
Lecturer at Human Life Center#2 | 5-6 April 2019
Two days of art, research and dreams of the future with Human Life Center#2: Dreaming, Trauma and Seeds (for futures…
Working with choreographer Krassen Krastev | 2017-2019
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard (1844)
This quote from Danish Philosopher Kierkegaard illustrates a well-known issue in futures research: we act in the hope of specific…