- Transdisciplinary research platform steered by visual artist Adam Vackar and biologist Jindrich Brejcha. Our practice at the intersection of visual art and biology, with overlaps in anthropology, architecture, geology, and philosophy, aims to explore paradigms of knowledge based on the understanding of the biological perspective of life and existence for both humans and non-human species. The fascinating processes underlining non-human life can contribute to better understanding of human existence in wider context of evolution, behavior and culture.
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In-habit: Transdisciplinary symposium at
Academy of
Arts, Architecture
and Design
Prague, CZ
December 1 - 2. 2022
Václav Cílek
Geologist, climatologist, writer
Mareike Dittmer
TBA21-Academy, Madrid
Habima Fuchs
Visual artist
Johanna Gibbons
Landscape architect, London, UK
Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido
Prof. of ecology University of Minnesota, USA
Stefan Helmreich
Professor of Anthropology at MIT, USA
Tereza Stehlíková
Visual artist
Sissel Tolaas Visual
Artist
Neal White
CREAM, University of Westminster, UK
Šárka Zahálková
Visual artist, curator and cultural activist
This transdisciplinary symposium was born out of an urgent need to reformulate our relationship to our physical and mental environments, near and far, human and non-human. The In-habit Symposium will bring together scientists, artists and cultural workers from the Czech Republic, the USA, Germany and the UK, institutions such as MIT, University of Minnesota, TBA21-Academy, Charles University.
Where is the right balance in our relationship between human and non-human agents? How can contemporary art, science and other disciplines come together to rethink and shift our point of view, to access non-human perspectives, non-human motivations, to change our habits and successfully coexist? What role does embodiment/senses play in training our sensibility? We need to rethink human behavior and point out the functional behavioral systems for the future.
Organized together with Tangible Territory, an open access art, science & philosophy journal, which focuses on how we make sense of the world through all our senses and the importance of place and embodied experience in giving meaning to everyday experience of life and art.
The symposium received financial support from Ministry of Culture Czech Republic.
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