‘Earth Lab: An Investigation of Earth as a Laboratory’ Professor Lise Autogena to speak at colloquium on 30 September 2017

Professor Lise Autogena has been invited to participate in Earth Lab: An Investigation of Earth as a Laboratory, a colloquium bringing together a number of artists, inventors and thinkers who re-imagine the earth, sea and sky from a bottom-up, post-anthropocene position, in a wide-ranging, broad-brushtroke survey of current thinking about Earth as a living laboratory. The speakers will consider the sky, the oceans and the land to pursue a number of themes that investigate social and artistic approaches to scientific knowledge in a rapidly changing world. The event will take place on Saturday 30 September 2017 at the University of Westminster.

Earth Lab: An Investigation of Earth as a Laboratory
Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster
10AM – 7PM
30 September 2017
Admission free

Lise Autogena and collaborating artist Joshua Portway will be discussing Foghorn Requiem, a musical performance to mark the disappearance of the foghorn from the UK’s coastal landscape with three brass bands and an armada of vessels at sea, sounding their horns in a requiem for the de-commissioning of foghorns, a melancholic and very human sound that connects the land with the sea.

Other contributors: Bronislaw Szerszynski, Tomás Saraceno, Nicola Triscott, Naveen Rabelli, Rob La Frenais, Jennfier Gabrys, Carlos López Galviz, Uta Kogelsberger, John Beck, Christine Handte, Neal White and others.

This event is presented by Proving Grounds, a collaboration between the Institute of Modern and Contemporary Culture (IMCC) and the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster. It has been organised by independent curator Rob La Frenais.

Admission to the colloquium is free but as there are limited places and priority will be given to staff and students of the University of Westminster. There will be the opportunity for participation in a selected pecha kucha and poster session over drinks. If you are interested please send a 100 word statement of intent to Rob La Frenais.

‘Unless the grand schemes of aspiring space colonists turn out to be achievable, whatever work there is to be done remains here on Earth, where, for now, the limits of the atmosphere mark the limits of our habitable world. Earth is the first, and perhaps the last, laboratory, the object, material and context for experiment, for trying out ways of living and knowing. Earth is our proving ground and the site of our contested survival’.
John Beck, Director of The Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture and part of Proving Grounds on the aims of Earth Lab

Professor Lise Autogena is an artist and a Professor of Cross-Disciplinary Art at the Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University. Find out more about her work here.