Introduksjon

Denne konferansen handler om kjærlighet. Om vår kjærlighet til naturen. Men hva er egentlig natur? Bortsett fra noen oppdiktede økologiske drømmelandskap? Økologi kommer fra det greske Oikos, som betyr hjem. Men i denne tiden med menneskeskapte katastrofer, har hjemmet vårt blitt ugjenkjennelig og fremmed?

Dommedagsscenarioene og miljøapokalypsene har blitt ikoniske bilder av naturen i vår tid. Likevel lokker de samme dystre fremtidsvisjonene oss tilbake til naturen. Vi har dette medfødte ønsket om en naturlig tilstand. Som om vi trenger det grønne, frodige, fruktbare og romantiske portrettet av et tapt paradis. Et fantastisk sted vi en gang tilhørte.

Meta.Morf 2022 – Ecophilia-konferansen utforsker samtidige former og manifestasjoner av menneskets hengivenhet til naturen. Konferansen undersøker hva det vil si å være en ekte økofil –en ekte naturelsker– i vår verden preget av ny teknologi, miljøkatastrofer, bioteknologiske underverker og uskarpe skillelinjer mellom det fremstilte og det naturlige.

La oss trekke det grønne teppet til side og bli møkkete.

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Introduction

This conference is about love. About our love for nature. But what is nature really? Except for some made up ecological dreamscapes? Ecology comes from Greek Oikos, meaning home. But in this age of man-made catastrophes, has our home become unrecognizable and alien?

The doomsday scenarios and environmental apocalypses have become iconic images of nature today. Yet the same bleak visions of the future lure us back to nature. We have this innate desire for a natural condition. As if we need that green, lush, fertile and romantic portrait of a paradise lost. Some wonderful place we once belonged.

Meta.Morf 2022 – Ecophilia Conference explores contemporary forms and manifestations of human affection to nature. The conference investigates what it means to be a real ecophile –a true lover of nature– in our world marked by new technologies, environmental disasters, biotechnological wonders, and blurred borders between the made and the natural.

Let’s pull the green curtain away and get dirty.

Konferansedeltakere / Conference participants:

Katrine Elise Pedersen [NO] is an art historian as well as curator and producer at Kunsthall Trondheim. 

– “Sex Ecologies: Gender, sex, and sexuality in the context of ecology”

Martin Howse [UK/DE] investigates the links between the earth, software and the a/human psyche through the construction of experimental situations. 

– “Tiny Mining: interior geologies”

(Keynote) Eben Kirksey [US/AU] is an American anthropologist and author of Freedom in Entangled Worlds (2012), Emergent Ecologies (2015), and an edited collection with the findings from The Multispecies Salon (2014). 

– “Mutant Theory: Technophilia, Ecophilia, and Posthuman Possibilities”

(Keynote) Špela Petrič [SI] is a new media artist with a background in the natural sciences, and has received the Bioart and Design Award (Netherlands), as well as an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica (Austria).

 – “Matters of Play and Passion”

Miriam Simun [TRANSNATIONAL] is an artist and graduate of the MIT Media Lab, NYU and the London School of Economics. 

– “Leaking, seething, bleeding, blurring, fusing, merging”

(Panel) Moderated by Hege Tapio [NO], an artist and PhD fellow at FeLT – Futures of Living Technologies at OsloMet.

Kirsty Kross [AU/NO] is an Oslo based artist originally from Brisbane, Australia. Her work focuses largely on humans’ relationship to the attention economy and growing ecological uncertainty. 

– “Let’s Talk About Dolphin Sex”

Ecophilia Conference is curated and moderated by Zane Cerpina [LV/NO], an author of the The Anthropocene Cookbook: Recipes and Opportunities for Future Catastrophes, forthcoming at MIT Press, October 2022.

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Event details

Venue: Dokkhuset, Dokkparken 4

Door opens 09:30 

The event will be in English.

Tickets: 50/100

Full program: https://metamorf.no/ecophilia-conference/

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META.MORF 2022 — ECOPHILIA

Trondheim International Biennale for Art and Technology

www.metamorf.no