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Well Beings in Times of Climate Anxiety
Kursthemen
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In Well Beings, an interactive installation by the artist Valentina Karga, visitors can confront their feelings, worries and fears about the climate crisis. Due to the immediate consequences of climate change, more and more people suffer from a chronic fear of doom, which is accompanied by feelings of helplessness, anger or guilt and can lead to panic attacks, nervousness, sleep disorders and even depression. The market has responded to this anxiety with a huge range of consumer products such as weighted blankets, hug pillows and stuffed animals. These objects inspire Karga and form the starting point for her work. At the same time, she discovered idols - prehistoric figures of abstracted creatures made of marble and clay - in the museum's Antiquities Collection. For the artist, they represent a distinct cultural heritage, and symbolize a closeness to nature. Using natural and recycled materials, she has created figures and forms based on the idols that visitors can touch and embrace.
Valentina Karga's (* 1986, Greece) work operates between art, design, research and architecture. It draws together elements of socially-engaged practice with experiments that question the existing social and physical frameworks within the realms of energy, economy and sustainability. Since 2018 Valentina Karga has been Professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK), Hamburg.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a public programme (see details below), "Well Beings in Times of Climate Anxiety", conceived by Seda Yildiz and Valentina Karga. The supporting programme is a project of HFBK Hamburg and the Hamburg Open Online University (HOOU).
Opening of the exhibition Well Beings at the MK&G Hamburg; Photo: Miriam Schmidt / HFBK Hamburg
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Presentation and discussion: “Can the arts degrow? Changing the pace in the midst of the climate crisis
26 April 2023, 6 pm, at the auditorium of the HFBK Hamburg
With Daphne Dragona (Curator & Writer, Berlin)
The full video of the lecture and the following discussion can be found in the mediathek of the HFBK Hamburg:
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Climate distress - working and living in a time when the familiar is dying
26 April 2023, 7 pm, at the auditorium of the HFBK Hamburg
With Steffi Bednarek (Climate psychologist, UK)
The full video of the lecture and the following discussion can be found in the mediathek of the HFBK Hamburg:
Hybrid lecture and discussion with Steffi Bednarek; Photo: Miriam Schmidt / HFBK Hamburg
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Resonant Encounters
29 April 2023, 3 pm, at MK&G Hamburg
With Marlies van Hak (Editor and researcher, Utrecht)
Marlies van Hak will tune in to moments of attentive listening and encounters with water. The reading will explore the porous lines between lived experience and language - resonating personal memories and critical reflections. It will take place in an intimate setting, and hold space for dialogue and exchange.
Marlies van Hak, Resonant Encounters. A performative reading by Marlies van Hak, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G), 2023, Photo: Öncü Gültekin.
Resonant Encounters. A performative reading by Marlies van Hak, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G), 2023, Photo: Öncü Gültekin.
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Sound Bath
29 April 2023, 4:15 pm, at MK&G Hamburg
With Janina Tanck (Sound Energy Practitioner, Hamburg)
Experience pure relaxation to the sound of the crystal bowls. During a Sound Bath, the sound will spread through your entire energy field. Sounds have a profound effect on our body, mind and spirit. Because of the high percentage of water (70-80%) in our bodies and because our bones carry vibrations 40x better than air, everything in us is vibrated, activating the body's self-healing process. Together we will meditate and bath in the sounds.
Janina Tanck, Sound Bath, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G), 2023, Photo: Öncü Gültekin.
Janina Tanck, Sound Bath, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G), 2023, Photo: Öncü Gültekin.
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Reading Group with Valentina Karga and design class of HFBK
17 and 24 May 2023, each 11 am, at MK&G Hamburg
We read: Lucy Lippard, “Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory”, 1983
Free pdf for Download here
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More research and discourse on the topic of climate anxiety
- academic contributions of Panu Pihkala on GoogleScholar
- Podcast Climate Change and Happiness
- article: Panu Pihkala, The Process of Eco-Anxiety and Ecological Grief: A Narrative Review and a New Proposal, 2022
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