[artinfo] Art Institutions in the Age of Existential Risks

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ZKM | Center for Art and Media presents:

Art Institutions in the Age of Existential Risks. 
What Is the Impact of Activism?

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"<https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/ys999nx8lec18/track-url/cg6441cst7e5d/246dd4bfa0eedd98963f7aa0a0aaad625ee9f067>Art 
Institutions in the Age of Existential Risks," a 
series of online events, the ZKM | Karlsruhe 
invites experts from the fields of art, culture, 
science and society to discuss the impact of 
today's existential risks and global upheavals on 
art institutions. "What Is the Impact of 
Activism?" will focus on activists' perspectives. 
Guests include Luisa Neubauer from the German 
Friday for Future Movement, artist and activist 
Lucy Orta, founder of Fearless Collective 
artistic group Shilo Shiv Suleman, and 
representative of "BP or not BP?" activist 
collective Bayr(y)am Mustafa Bayr(y)amali. The 
event is followed by a live screening of "Dear 
Future Children" (2021), a film by Franz Böhm 
exploring young activism worldwide.

Activists are at the forefront of the struggle 
against the existential risks of our time. From 
protest movements on the streets to academic 
discourses on racism, colonialism, gender, and 
migration, activism takes many diverse forms. Is 
this a new Age of Reason, a defense of life 
confronted by existential risks? Activism 
challenges the status quo and the traditional 
structures of the public sphere, from politics 
and the press to cultural institutions, by 
creating new platforms for making things public 
and putting the most urgent existential questions 
facing humankind at the top of the agenda for 
public attention.

How can alternative visions for the future be 
re-imagined through art and activism? How do 
activism and art institutions influence each 
other? Will the art world in the future operate 
as an ally of activists? Will major art events 
such as the Documenta and the Biennale di Venezia 
become the new sites of activism in these times 
of global crises?

The ZKM opens up a "thought space" to reflect on 
the future of society and art institutions from 
the perspective of activist practice.

Watch the event online 
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https://zkm.de/en/livestream

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