Art Meets Science: Matinee Talks in the Greenhouses

Botanic Garden Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8, 14195 Berlin Map
Tickets: 6 / 3 € reduced at the entrance
Feb

02

Sun
11:00 14:00

Discussions and performances with: René Aguigah, Miriam Akkermann, Maria Thereza Alves, Gilles Aubry, Marcus Becker, Friedhelm von Blanckenburg, Karine Bonneval, Thomas Borsch, Marcus Gammel, Kathrin Grotz, Nils Köster, Hans Walter Lack, Kirsten Reese, Dörte Schmidt, Island Songs & more

Located at various stations within the greenhouses, scientists and artists will discuss different ways of experiencing nature. The closing discussion will address how our relationship with nature has changed since Humboldt’s time.

Art Meets Science takes place in conjunction with “You Will Go Away One Day But I Will Not,” a new commissioned work by Maria Thereza Alves and Lucrecia Dalt at the Botanic Garden Berlin that considers the Western practice of using Western scientific nomenclature to name plants worldwide. The audience is invited to walk through the tropical greenhouse wearing headphones that track each user’s movements to generate individualised binaural sonic experiences. Through this immersive installation in the tropical greenhouse, Alves and Dalt attempt to open a space for the multifarious voices of the forest—organic and inorganic, human and non-human, speculative and lived—while also pointing to their silencing and erasure by European colonists.

Having worked with the Guarani people of the Jaguapiru Reservation in Dourados in Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil since 1980, Alves has been part of a conversation around practices of naming. Using rhythmically sequenced patterns from its many voices, Dalt composes a constantly-shifting sound piece inspired by the turbulent, unpredictable, multiplicitous nature of the forest. Through these explorations, the complexity of Guarani thought emerges, as does its relationality to other beings and their surroundings.

The work is presented within the framework of the “Natur. Nach Humboldt” initiative, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Alexander von Humboldt. It is commissioned by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin, Die Junge Akademie, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and CTM Festival, with spatial sound production from usomo | unique sonic moments.

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