Symposium: Art Across Energy, Climate and Sustainability
How can art approach the themes of Energy, Climate and Sustainability? Art can raise public awareness of urgent environmental issues and cultivate platforms for open dialogue. It can also deepen scientific ideas and potentially illuminate future solutions or perspectives.
Interdisciplinary approaches from art to ecological topics (and vice versa) require radical challenges, mutual understandings and support, plus long-term visions in multiple layers. It is also essential to reflect on new technologies and socio-political contexts.
This symposium aims to share diverse methodologies for accessing sustainability through art (and vice versa) and to explore means of public participation in future collaborations.
Timetable:
Monday, November 24th, 9am - 1pm
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9:00
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Door open. Installation setup by Minerva artists
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9:30
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Presentation by Sayoko Matsutani, Art Curator at Pine Valley Contemporary. Curator for the exhibition, Art of Energy Transition: Future of Groningen, at Gemeente Groningen
Overview of the project and description of the artworks by fifteen participant artists. |
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10:10
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Lecture "Art Lessons from the Industrial Age" by Andreas Blühm, Director emeritus of Groninger Museum, Prof. emeritus of Art History, Museums and Society at UG.
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Interval (please enjoy art presentations within the venue) |
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11:00
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Panel discussions with scientists/experts in Energy, Climate and Sustainability, and/or interdisciplinary projects.
Panellists: Prof. Goda Perlaviciute, Public acceptability of sustainable transitions (UG), Dr Gorazd Andrejč, Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society (UG), and Annemarie Hofman-Tualena, Dept. of Energy Transition at Gemeente Groningen. Led by Sayoko Matsutani.
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12:00-12:45 |
Lunch |
This event is hosted by Wubbo Ockels School for Energy & Climate (UG) in parallel to the exhibition, Art of Energy Transition: Future of Groningen, Gemeente Groningen, 3-28 November.
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