Talk

After Us, The Flood

KUNST HAUS WIEN
May 31 2017
Untere Weißgerberstraße 13
Vienna 1030
Phone: 01 7120491
17:00
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
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After Us, The Flood is a symposium programmed by Vienna-based artist Oliver Ressler. It sets out to connect artistic, activist and curatorial practices addressing the exploitation, pollution and militarization of commodified water. Speakers share a determination to protect the common, uncontaminated character of the substance that renews life on Earth. Themes discussed will range from rising ocean levels caused by global warming to the ruin of rivers by irrigation projects. The ecological wars waged by oil drillers and client industries (refiners, shippers, futures traders, parapetroleum logistics, car factories and factory farms, to name a few) turn the world's water toxic or squander it. But this coalition of looters is confronted by alliances like none seen before: Indigenous water protectors with lifetime eco-antagonists, ex-military survivors with social justice movements and others unwilling to die in artificial desert or sink into an overheated sea.
Curated by Oliver Ressler

REGISTER: anmeldung@kunsthauswien.com

17:15
Oliver Ressler
Einleitung

17:30
Maren Richter
The Island is What the Sea Surrounds…

18:00
Elena Sorokina
Requiem for Fossil Fuels

PAUSE

19:00
Katrin Hornek
Upstream – The Colorado River from
Salton Sea to Glen Canyon

19:30
Glen Tarman/Liberate Tate
Culture Beyond Oil: Making Art Matter
in a Time of Climate Change

20:00
Panel Discussion

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