12.11.2024 18:00
Münster Lectures /// Künstlergruppe terra0
Kunstakademie Münster
Hörsaal
Leonardo-Campus 2
48149 Münster
Herzliche Einladung zur Münster Lecture mit der Künstlergruppe terra0 aus Berlin.
Seit neun Jahren erforscht terra0 kritische Fragen rund um Landbesitz, Ökosysteme und das Verständnis von Natur. Unsere Arbeit konzentriert sich darauf, wie rechtliche Konzepte wie Persönlichkeit, Eigentum und Subjekt die Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Natur beeinflussen und wie neue Formen der Interaktion durch dezentrales, demokratisches Landmanagement entstehen könnten. In diesem Vortrag werden wir einige der wichtigsten Projekte von terra0 vorstellen und sie mit unseren aktuellen Initiativen verknüpfen.
CV:
Across their various projects, the art collective terra0 explores how economy and ecology intertwine. Since their inception in 2015, terra0 has explored how ecosystems can become economic agents, engaged in questions of collective ownership. Their first work, terra0 whitepaper (2016), proposed a self-utilizing forest which, with the help of sensors and smart contracts, sells logging licenses and ultimately accumulates capital. Later works have iterated and reflected back on the claims set forth in the whitepaper, continuing to center on emerging technologies’ potential to support new forms of ownership, and the different conceptions of agency they may thus entail. In Flowertokens (2018), terra0 cultivated a garden of tokenized Dahlia flowers, which could be collected, traded, and speculated on via an online marketplace, with value fluctuating in relation to the physical plant’s health. Likewise, projects like Premna Daemon (2018) and Seed Capital (2022) have played with using distributed ledger technology to crowdsource resources for plant care, intertwining market incentives with the stewardship of plants living in the exhibition space. Across these works and throughout their practice today, terra0 raises questions around autonomy and agency in culture and law; novel distributions of ownership; and regard for the natural world within and beyond market capitalism.
Die Münster Lectures werden großzügig gefördert durch die Freunde der Kunstakademie e.V.
