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ISABEL   BURR   RATY

CURATING

EMBRACING TRANSMATERIAL FUTURES SYMPOSIUM (2024)

Narratives on Hybridity and the Labyrinth of Interconnectedness

Kapellica Gallery, Ljubljana (SI)

 

Organized by the Kersnikova Institute – within the framework of the ‘Inspiration Forum Lab’ and co-financed by the Creative Europe Culture Programme of the European Union, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and City of Ljubljana.

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The symposium features artists, researchers, and a scientist whose work embrace the wisdom of diverse knowledge systems, including diasporas futurisms, indigenous traditions and creative thinking. The speakers speak about narratives where science, fiction and spirituality collide, to challenge techno biases that homogenize definitions of the human. The aim of the symposium is to present the need for the hybridization of human identity alongside transmaterials perspectives of the body, which advocate for life entanglements between “living” and “non-living” forms.

 

​Talks:

->> Dissociative Fugues: Another Look at First Encounters, Spaceships and Time Travel in Science Fiction by Peggy Pierrot, intellectual worker, teacher and independent researcher

->> Becoming Data Diva: Developing Semi-fictional Alter Egos as Fabulous Artistic Research Tools by Antye Guenther, visual artist and artist researcher

->> On Syntropy by Andrej Detela, theoretical physicist, inventor, philosopher and writer

->> The (Power Plant) Village, an Embodied Quantum Fiction? by Isabel Burr Raty, transdisciplinary artist and researcher

 WRAP UP OF A ROCK/STAR TOUR - GATHERING

MARIA QUIÑELEN MAPUCHE MEDICINE WOMAN GUEST VISIT

​KVS Theater, Brussels (BE) (2022)

 

Supported by KVS theater, ERG, nadine, GC Wabo

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María Quiñelén is a feminist and activist Mapuche Medicine woman, as well as the spokesperson of the Mapuche people at the forefront of the survival and ecological fight in Chile. She has been invited by artist and researcher Isabel Burr Raty in a joint endeavour with apass, ERG, wabo, nadine and KVS to carry out a series of activities during November 2022.

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During this evening gathering Maria shares knowledge about the arts of medicinal plants and magic, questions about autonomy, resistance and community, repair and friendship.  

 

The evening includes an intervention of Moya Michael (KVS resident) and a closing ritual, and invites the participants that took part at activities during María's stay in Brussels:

ERG > Master students workshop/dialogue

a.pass > EARTH Workshop

GC Wabo > Womb knowledges from the Andes workshop co-organized with An Mertens

KVS > Research exchange meeting with Moya Michael

TOPOS 4 SCI FI OF THE BODY

wpZimmer, Antwerpen (BE) (2022)

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Suppoted by Flemish Authorities, The City of Antwerp and c-Takt

Co-curated by Isabel Burr Raty, Ingrid Vranken and Gosie Vervloessem

Invited artists Antye Guenther, Peggy Pierrot, Olave Nduwanje and ooooo 

 

With TOPOS, wpZimmer is shaping collective residencies in which various artists are invited to come together around a theme. For its fourth edition, wpZimmer invited artist Isabel Burr Raty to co-curate the residency around questions from her practice and work.

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TOPOS 4 presents the body as inherently Sci-Fi, the body as a multitude, an entanglement of micro and macro entities and performativities considered 'natural' and 'artificial', 'human' and 'more-than-human', 'organic' and ' synthetic', 'analogue' and 'virtual’.

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TOPOS 4 brings together a group of artists whose practice's questions always bring them back to the body: What do we mean, feel and think when we talk about our body?  â€‹â€‹

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