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The climate crisis reveals itself in images. Most of them are produced by highly developed and very expensive technologies, like satellite images, ice core drilling, temperature maps, etc. The importance of these ‘images’ cannot be overstated: without the data that these scientific images produce, we wouldn’t even be able to chart the destruction at hand. But, as these images and data-maps only circulate on the computer screens of researchers and data-analysts, they are as such unable to raise public awareness of the crisis.

The images of the climate crisis that circulate within the general population are mostly documentary images that show the damage done to our planet. But these images often depict a scene of devastation so intense and large that it infuses the public with a sense of paralyzing dismay, as if the condition depicted is truly hopeless. As such, these purely documentary images forcefully present the dire condition of the present but are unable to formulate an alternative.

In other words: we are in dire need of developing new and enticing protocols that allow us to rethink and reimagine the relationship between man and nature. For this project we’ll invite artists to develop new easy-to-use protocols based on the photographic principle of direct tracing through physical contact. Sidestepping the purely documentary approach that prevails today in the more popular photographic imagination of climate change, the project would like to develop and promote different and more experimental methods of visualizing and narrating the ecological and climate breakdown. Using this photographic model of direct tracing would make it possible to give voice to nature itself, to let it present itself without being skewed by our human expectations.

Developing and sharing these protocols will allow us to give the general public some new and innovative ways to rekindle their relationship with the natural world they (and we) inhabit and acknowledge the fundamental interdependency of man and nature. Moreover, because these new protocols require the maker to be in physical contact with nature, they are also apt at showing our current predicament as a form of ecological entanglement.

Coordinated by

Steven Humblet and Inge Henneman

A collaboration between

 

(image: Dries Segers (from the series, Responding Rain, 2019))

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Mon 21 Oct
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Fri 25 Oct

Research class: Puddle Forensics

Research class by Mirja Busch

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Sat 21 Oct
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Thu 09 Nov

Exhibition 'Ecosystems'

With the exhibition ‘Ecosystems’ we bring historical and contemporary eco-art into the school walls, not only as a source of inspiration, but also as food for critical thought, and as a stimulus for future artistic practices.

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Fri 22 Sep
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Sat 07 Oct

Exhibition - Hydromedia. Seeing with water

Group show at Stormkop, taking the aquatic ecosystem of the Scheldt Estuary as a starting point. With works by Mirja Busch, Jarek Lustych, Sascha Herrmann and Tim Theo Deceuninck.

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Sat 23 Sep
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Sat 23 Sep

Workshops - Hydromedia

Within the framework of the 'Hydromedia' exhibition at Stormkop, three of the participating artists invite you to participate in a workshop: try out experimental photographic processes, go puddle watching, or learn to record the sound of water.

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HYDROMEDIA: Seeing with Water

Some impressions of ‘HYDROMEDIA: Seeing with Water’, a two-day programme on the development of new, experimental and easy-to-use artistic protocols to visualise and narrate the climate crisis.

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Open Call - Hydromedia: Seeing with Water

'Hydromedia' would like to develop and promote new, experimental and easy- to-use artistic protocols to visualise and narrate the climate crisis. OPEN CALL for residencies dealing with a local topic concerning ecological water management in Antwerp, Utrecht or Karlsruhe.

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