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is part of Labocine’s June 2024 Issue : Infrastructural Beings

This film series centers on the vital interconnections that form our built environments, from imposing giants to the often intangible elements that shape our landscapes and mediate our daily lives. In the age of the Anthropocene, these ‚infrastructural beings’—networks of human and non-human spatialized materialities—appear as outsized mosaics, born out of decimation and extraction, some abandoned and others taking shape. They reflect not only the sheer accumulation of concrete, cables, and conduits, and the excavation of the earth in pursuit of energy, but also collective and ruptured histories, subjectivities, and politics.

From dozens of countries and vantage points, filmmakers in this series explore infrastructure through experimentation and research, science fiction, large productions, video art, dance, animation, and architectural renderings. Its a diversity that captures the vastness of infrastructure—its elusive, subjective impacts, meanings, and practices, and its global patterns and shared identities.

Curated by Veronica Jacome

https://www.labocine.com/issues/infrastructural-beings

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Troubled Ground

I’m very happy that from May 21 – July 14 you can see glimpses of Karl Lemieux’s and my permafrost thaw artistic research (sound by Nick Kuepfer) in the installation „Troubled Ground“ at

In Flux: Perspectives on Arctic Change

Woodwell Climate Research Center will sponsor an exhibition of new work based on Arctic research conducted by Woodwell scientists. Participating artists: Aaron Dysart, Georgia Nassikas, Gabrielle Russomagno, Michaela Grill & Karl Lemieux, and maps by Woodwell Senior Geospatial Analyst Greg Fiske will be shown together in the 1st and 2nd-floor galleries.

This inaugural exhibit by 4 Woodwell Visiting Artists and one staff member will feature the results of a collaboration between an artist and a Woodwell scientist conducting Arctic-based research. The subsequent artwork and public scientific and artist talks will illustrate the artists’ interpretation of data related to themes and objectives of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.); environmental monitoring; climate change; the geographic importance of the arctic, and the Boreal Forest. Climate change is the single greatest challenge of our lifetime, affecting every aspect of life on our planet. Combating this crisis requires science-based solutions that are both comprehensive in scope and societal in scale.

Artistic expression can help bridge the gap between facts and feelings by appealing directly to our emotions and our values while exploring the impacts of climate change and ways to address it. This collaborative project will illustrate through photography, sculptural pieces, and film, how art is important culturally as it is able to transmute complex information about the impact of climate change – that would otherwise not be comprehensible to the public – and reach large groups of people. Related panel discussions and speaker events will explore the connection between science and art and encourage public discourse around the climate crisis.

https://highfieldhallandgardens.org/…/in-flux…

Thanks for the amazing collaboration Jennifer Watts!

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Antarctic Traces Revisted

SIZE MATTERS . Raum für Kunst & Film / Space for Art & Film . 
Margaretenstraße 110, 1050 Wien

ICE MATTERS
Michaela Grill Christian Ruschitzka
                                                       
Eröffnung / Opening                                Freitag / Friday 12.4.2024, 7-10 pm
The exhibition will be open upon request till Sunday 14.4.2024

Wenn man an die Antarktis denkt, kommen einem zuerst endlose, wilde Landschaften aus Eis und Schnee in den Sinn. Ein unbewohnbarer Kontinent, der sich weigert, kolonisiert zu werden, und nur die abenteuerlustigsten Männer konnten der Natur widerstehen. Weniger bekannt ist, dass es neben den heldenhaften Erkundungen im Namen der Wissenschaft auch eine industrielle Ausbeutung der Region in großem Stil gab.
Der Fokus der Ausstellung liegt auf den Spuren, die der Mensch vor Ort hinterlassen hat, und Michaela Grill stellt Fragen zu unserer Beziehung zu dieser abgelegenen Wildnis und unseren Interaktionen mit der Natur im allgemeinen.
Die künstlerischen Interaktionen von Christian Ruschitzka scheinen die Weiterführung von Michaela Grills Fragestellungen zu sein, fast wie eine Antwort darauf, denn diese versuchen der Natur etwas zurückzugeben bzw solidarisch einzugreifen in ein System, das unausweichlich in ihr eigenes Verderbnis rast.
DRINKS ON ICE!

© Michaela Grill, Antarctic Traces Revisited, 2024

https://migrill.klingt.org/
https://www.ruschitzka.at/
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Cécile Delingou has just published her thesis „L’altération filmique : pour une expression écocentrique de la nature“ (Filmic alteration: for an ecocentric expression of nature) where she talks very insightfully about my work besides some of my favourite contemporary filmmakers.

here is the link if you’re interested:

https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/handle/1866/32773

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I’m floating in the most peculiar way

will be presented as part of the ATMOSPHERES exhibition of STEIERMARK SCHAU at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 15.01.2024 – 28.02.2024.

‚I’m floating in the most peculiar way‘ is rich in scientific image material: photographs of planetary surfaces, of microbial life frozen in the ice, and of freeze etchings from blasting microorganisms out of the ice. The shimmering/glowing orange and sun-like ground, however, give the impression that the viewer is floating through the glowing hot gases of an exoplanet and could immerse you in an experience featuring hot ice, ruby-red clouds, or metallic rain.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Azra Akšamija & Dietmar Offenhuber, Benedikt Alphart & Adina Camhy, Michaela Grill / Stefan Németh, Markus Jeschaunig, Rainer Kohlberger & Peter Kutin, Gudrun Krebitz, Ralo Mayer, Muntean/Rosenblum, Kay Walkowiak, Richard Wilhelmer & Sonja Mutić, Silvana Beraldo & Daniela Brasil

PARTICIPATING SCIENTISTS & RESEARCHERS: Nanna Bach-Møller, Patrick Barth, Ludmila Carone, Katy Chubb, Luca Fossati, Christiane Helling, Helena Lecoq Molinos, Emma Puranen, Dominic Samra, Alexandra Scherr, Jan Philip Sindel, Ruth-Sophie Taubner, Christine Moissl-Eichinger, Robert Höldrich, Franz Zotter, Hannes Mayer, Anita Rinner, Dieter Pirker

The Mobile Pavillion was curated by: Astrid Kury