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A recipient and producer of knowledge, NTU CCA Singapore’s publishing activities contribute to its holistic approach, expanding the connections across the Centre’s exhibitions, residencies, public programming, and academic education.
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Drawing on the rich cultural heritage and trajectories of the Asia Pacific and beyond, the exhibitions, works of art, and essays in <em>Climates.Habitats.Environments. </em>transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to affirm the role of cultural production in the fight for environmental and social justice.
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Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Climates.Habitats.Environments.
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Climate Crisis
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Published by NTU CCA Singapore and The MIT Press, 2022 <br />Edited by Ute Meta Bauer<br />Design by mono.studio<br />Printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH<br />© 2022 the artists, the authors, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Nanyang Technological University <br />ISBN: 978-0-262-04681-7 <br />Distributed by The MIT Press <br />Copies are available for sale at NTU CCA Singapore and through MIT Press S$80/US$60<br /><br />Modeling the curatorial as a method for uniting cultural production and science,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Climates. Habitats. Environments</i>. weaves together image and text to address the global climate crisis. Through exhibitions, artworks, and essays, artists and writers transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on the fight for environmental justice. In doing so, they draw on the rich cultural heritage of the Asia-Pacific, in conversation with international discourse, to demonstrate transdisciplinary solution-seeking.<br /><p><span>Experimental in form as well as in method,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Climates. Habitats. Environments.</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>features an inventive book design by mono.studio that puts word and image on equal footing, offering a multiplicity of media, interpretations, and manifestations of interdisciplinary research. For example, botanist Matthew Hall draws on Ovid's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Metamorphoses</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to discuss human-plant interpenetration; curator and writer Venus Lau considers how spectrality consumes—and is consumed—in animation and film, literature, music, and cuisine; and critical theorist and filmmaker Elizabeth Povinelli proposes “Water Sense” as a geontological approach to “the question of our connected and differentiated existence,” informed by the “ancestral catastrophe of colonialism.” Artists excavate the natural and cultural DNA of indigo, lacquer, rattan, and mulberry; works at the intersection of art, design, and architecture explore “The Posthuman City”; an ongoing research project investigates the ecological urgencies of Pacific archipelagos. The works of art, the projects, and the majority of the texts featured in the book were commissioned by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.</span></p>
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The MIT Press
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Ute Meta Bauer
Anna Lovecchio
Michael Marder
Kong Yin Ying
Marian Pastor Roces
Ravi Agarwal
Donna J. Haraway
Matthew Hall
Nikos Papastergiadis
Donna J. Haraway
David Pledger
Dan Koh
Tan Zi Hao
May Adadol Ingawanij
Michael M. J. Fischer
Venus Lau
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Cynthia Chou
Nina Oeghoede
Philippe Pirotte
Epeli Hau'ofa
Nabil Ahmed
Édouard Glissant
Tania Roy
Alfian Sa'at
Jake Atienza
Kenneth Dean
Faizah Zakaria
Stefanie Hessler
Huang Jui-mao
Anna Källén
Philippa Lovatt
Laura Miotto
Rob Nixon
Khim Ong
Markus Reymann
Dirk Snauwaert
Matariki Williams
Irene Agrivina
Nabil Ahmed
Irwan Ahmett
Tita Salina
Atif Akin
Animali Domestici
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Martha Atienza
Tarek Atoui
Laura Anderson Barbata
Rosella Biscotti
Guigone Camus
Choy Ka Fai
Roko Josefa Cinavilakeba
Sean Connelly
Ade Darmawan
Lucy Davis
Ines Doujak
Jef Geys
Tue Greenfort
Newell Harry
Ho Tzu Nyen
Chia-Wei Hsu
Pierre Huyghe
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inhabitants
The Institute of Critical Zoologists
Kristy H. A. Kang
Susanne Kriemann
Zac Langdon-Pole
Jae Rhim Lee
Liang Shaoji
PerMagnus Lindborg
Armin Linke
Nicholas Mangan
Alice Miceli
Manish Nai
Nguyễn Trinh Thi
Phi Phi Oanh
Lucy + Jorge Orta
Park Chan-kyong
Sophia Pich
Marjetica Potrč
Shubigi Rao
Lisa Rave
Lucy Raven
Bridget Reweti
Hito Steyerl
Melati Suryodarmo
Tanatchai Bandasak
Sung Tieu
Jegan Vincent de Paul
Wu Mali
Vivian Xu
Yeo Siew Hua
Zarina Muhammad
Edouard Glissant
Anna Kallen
Nguyen Trinh Thi
Marjetica Potrc
mono.studio
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PDF Text
Text
on the occasion of
the opening of the
Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Fort Kochi, Kerala, India
TBA21–Academy media links
tba21.org/convening2kochi
facebook.com/TBA21
#tba21 #convening2kochi
@tba_21
Partners
December 13–15, 2016
TBA21–Academy
Köstlergasse 1
1060 Vienna, Austria
Media
Partner
Convening #2
Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary
The Current
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Spice Market
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Bazaar Rd, Mattancherry,
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River Rd, Fort Kochi,
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Spice Market
near Jeevamatha Church
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Mattancherry, Kochi,
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Church Rd, Fort Kochi,
Kerala 682001
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Cochin Club
7, St. Francis Church Road,
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Fort Kochi, Kerala 682001
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kochimuzirisbiennale.org
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convened by TBA21 The Current
expedition leaders
Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia
and TBA21–Academy curator
Stefanie Hessler
TBA21–Academy
tba21.org/convening2kochi
facebook.com/TBA21
#tba21 #convening2kochi
@tba_21
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Fragrant Nature Hotel
on the occasion of the opening of
the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016
Fort Kochi, Kerala, India
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Spice Market
follow Bazaar Rd., 20 min walk
Funding
Partner
Convening #2
December 13–15, 2016
�Workshop
Landscapes Open in
the Empty Self
Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana
Nuclear Pacific
by Nabil Ahmed
with Ravi Agarwal, Ute Meta Bauer,
Zuleikha Chaudhari, Stefanie Hessler,
Amar Kanwar, KHOJ (Sitara Chowfla,
Radha Mehandru, and Pooja Sood),
Davor Vidas, Linz Wilbur
by Sharmistha Mohanty
Vasco da Gama Plaza
8.30–9.45am
Attentional exercise
7–8pm
Protocol of the Sea
Watch, Action of the
Crow’s Nest
Cochin Club
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
“Ambiguous Objects”
and the University
Museum
Workshop
Vasco da Gama Plaza
8–10pm
10.30am–12.30pm
Unpredictable Oceans
and the Monstrosity of
the Sea
Guided visit of the installation
and sound piece
10.30am–12.30pm
Structured conversation
The Ocean as Habitat:
The rights of nature
and the international
Law of the sea
Cochin Club
2–5pm
Workshop
moderated by Ute Meta Bauer
with Ravi Agarwal, Nabil Ahmed,
D. Graham Burnett, TJ Demos, Jegan
Vincent de Paul, Markus Reymann,
Davor Vidas
“Ambiguous Objects”
and the University
Museum
Cochin Club
ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക
by Clémentine Deliss
സന്ധ
5–6.30pm
Introduction
Into The Current
moderated by Daniela Zyman
with Ute Meta Bauer, Cesar Garcia,
Francesca von Habsburg, Stefanie
Hessler, Markus Reymann
Cochin Club
The Capitalocene
Pacific
Midday, uccaykk, avatea
2–5pm
Cochin Club
Workshop
“Ambiguous Objects”
and the University
Museum
6–6.30pm
Keynote
The Law of the Sea —
through time and place
by Clémentine Deliss
Closed workshop,
various sites in Fort Kochi
by Davor Vidas
Cochin Club
2–5pm
6.30–7pm
Workshop
Prose reading
Rising Sea Levels
Reading a Wave
by Francesca von Habsburg
by Ho Rui An
Closed workshop,
deep-sea vessel by CMLRE
Vasco da Gama Plaza
3–4pm
Performative talk
2–5pm
Workshop for children
Guided visit of the installation
and sound piece
by Joan Jonas
with Filipa Ramos
Cochin Club
2–5pm
The Document’s
Expanded Field
by Jamie Y. Shi
Cochin Club
2–5pm
Cochin Club
Oceans–
sketches and notes
Fish Tails and Fish
Tales
Midday, uccaykk, avatea
by Jamie Y. Shi
by TJ Demos
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
Vasco da Gama Plaza
by Christopher Myers
Short films
Gianini with Ishu Patel
Wutharr, Saltwater
Dreams by Karrabing Film
Collective
Poetry reading
The Tagore Letters
by Aveek Sen
Vasco da Gama Plaza
7–8pm
Sound performance
Drifting
by Jana Winderen
Vasco da Gama Plaza
8–10pm
Short films
Elementary Maps No. 3
by Anna Bella Geiger
Occidente by Ana Vaz
The Disappearance of
the Aïtus by Pauline Julier
Cargo by Laura Waddington
Speeches—Chapter 1:
Mother Tongue
by Bouchra Khalili
Brouillard—Passage 14
by Alexandre Larose
by Sylvia Schedelbauer
originally selected for the Dhaka Art
Summit program Passages
by Shanay Jhaveri
Vasco da Gama Plaza
December
13 –15
ALL DAY
Film shoot
The Episodic
by The Propeller Group
Various sites in Fort Kochi
ALL DAY
Exhibition of books
From the (Kula) Ring to
the Belt (& Road)
by Jegan Vincent de Paul
Cochin Club
ALL DAY
Installation and sound piece
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
by Christopher Myers
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
8–10pm
Swimmy by Leo Lionni & Giulio
6.30–7pm
Sea of Vapors
The Document’s
Expanded Field
7–8pm
Workshop
Dusk, sandhya, maruapö
ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക
Keynote
Breakfast area of Fragrant
Nature Hotel
by Nabil Ahmed
with Ravi Agarwal, Ute Meta Bauer,
Zuleikha Chaudhari, Stefanie Hessler,
Amar Kanwar, KHOJ (Sitara Chowfla,
Radha Mehandru, and Pooja Sood),
Davor Vidas, Linz Wilbur
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
5–5.30pm
by ESTAR(SER)
Nuclear Pacific
Cochin Club
Workshop
8.30–9.45am
Protocol of the Sea
Watch, Action of the
Crow’s Nest
Workshop
by Christopher Myers
Dusk, sandhya, maruapö
Attentional exercise
2–5pm
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
സന്ധ
പ്രഭാതം
ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക
December 14
Cochin Club
Guided visit of the installation
and sound piece
moderated by Stefanie Hessler
with Nabil Ahmed, Ute Meta Bauer,
Georg Eder, Amar Kanwar, Charles Lim,
Markus Reymann, Davor Vidas
by Christopher Myers
by Jamie Y. Shi
3–4pm
The Ocean as
Treasure Trove:
Deep-sea mining —
the next gold rush?
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
Vasco da Gama Plaza
Midday, uccaykk, avatea
Closed workshop,
various sites in Fort Kochi
Structured conversation
3–4pm
selected by the Dharamshala
International Film Festival
introduced by Ritu Sarin &
Tenzing Sonam
Cochin Club
The Document’s
Expanded Field
10.30am–12.30pm
by Gianfranco Rosi
moderated by Ute Meta Bauer
with Tanya Abraham, Natasha Ginwala,
Ho Rui An, Joan Jonas, Filipa Ramos,
Vivek Vilasini, Daniela Zyman
Workshop
Breakfast area of Fragrant
Nature Hotel
Closed workshop,
various sites in Fort Kochi
Fire at Sea
Structured conversation
by ESTAR(SER)
by Clémentine Deliss
Film
8.30–9.45am
Protocol of the Sea
Watch, Action of the
Crow’s Nest
2–5pm
by Christopher Myers
Breakfast area of Fragrant
Nature Hotel
Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana
Attentional exercise
Perfomative talk
by ESTAR(SER)
2–5pm
December 15
2–5pm
Poetry reading
പ്രഭാതം
6.30–7pm
സന്ധ
പ്രഭാതം
December 13
Dusk, sandhya, maruapö
5–6.30pm
Europium by Lisa Rave
Toilets Not Temples
Performative talk
by Will Benedict & David Leonard
by Anthony Acciavatti &
D. Graham Burnett
selected and introduced by
Filipa Ramos
Vasco da Gama Plaza
WATER MACHINES
Cochin Club
Please find detailed information about
the program inside.
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Short Description
The conference consists of three days of structured conversations, workshops, performances, talks, and screenings convened by The Current Expedition leaders Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21-Academy curator Stefanie Hessler.
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Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is pleased to be the funding partner of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary–Academy (TBA21) for <i>The Current Convening #2</i> in numerous locations on the occasion of the opening of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016.<br /><br /><i>The Current</i> is an exploratory fellowship program based in the Pacific. Working collaboratively across disciplines, the program merges the diverse approaches of deeply committed practitioners, collectively conceptualizing ways to address climate change and environmental violence to the oceans. Expeditions aboard the Dardanella research vessel are followed by <i>Convenings</i> in which the investigations of the Expedition leaders and participants can be shared with an audience. <i>The Convening #2</i> is profoundly dedicated to the oceans, taking poetic approaches to currents and flows of water across cultures. Please join us for three days of structured conversations, workshops, performances, talks, and screenings convened by<i> The Current</i> Expedition leaders Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21-Academy curator Stefanie Hessler. Organized by Markus Reymann.
Date
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2016-12-13/2016-12-15
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Francesca von Habsburg
Daniela Zyman
Markus Reyman
Stefanie Hessler
Ute Meta Bauer
Cesar Garcia
Joan Jonas
Amar Kanwar
Davor Vidas
Natasha Ginwala
Ravi Agarwal
Nabil Ahmed
Filipa Ramos
Christopher Myers
The Propeller Group
Jana Winderen
Jamie Y. Shi
Sharmistha Mohanty
Ritu Sharin
Tenzing Sonam
Jegan Vincent de Paul
Vivek Vilasini
TJ Demos
Ho Rui An
Charles Lim
Anthony Acciavatti
D. Graham Burnett
Aveek Sen
Shanay Jhaveri
Clémentine Deliss
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Postcard
Coverage
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Southeast Asia
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Text
on the occasion of
the opening of the
Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Fort Kochi, Kerala, India
TBA21–Academy media links
tba21.org/convening2kochi
facebook.com/TBA21
#tba21 #convening2kochi
@tba_21
Partners
December 13–15, 2016
TBA21–Academy
Köstlergasse 1
1060 Vienna, Austria
Media
Partner
Convening #2
Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary
The Current
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Cochin Club
Vasco da Gama Plaz a
Mah
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atm
Gan
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ch
Vasco da Gama Chu rch
Kochi-Muziris Biennale– Aspinwall
Main Site
Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Spice Market
Vasco da Gama Plaza
Cochin Club
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Please find all locations here:
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Cover photo:
Drone Shot, Atif Akin, 2016
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Fragrant Nature Hotel
Bazaar Rd, Mattancherry,
Fort Kochi, Kerala 682001
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Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Aspinwall
River Rd, Fort Kochi,
Kerala 682001
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Spice Market
near Jeevamatha Church
Jew Town Rd, Jew Town,
Kappalandimukku,
Mattancherry, Kochi,
Kerala 682002
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Vasco da Gama Plaza
Church Rd, Fort Kochi,
Kerala 682001
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Cochin Club
7, St. Francis Church Road,
Opp Parade Ground,
Fort Kochi, Kerala 682001
Kochi-Muziris Biennale
kochimuzirisbiennale.org
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convened by TBA21 The Current
expedition leaders
Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia
and TBA21–Academy curator
Stefanie Hessler
TBA21–Academy
tba21.org/convening2kochi
facebook.com/TBA21
#tba21 #convening2kochi
@tba_21
ar
Fragrant Nature Hotel
on the occasion of the opening of
the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016
Fort Kochi, Kerala, India
a
az
Spice Market
follow Bazaar Rd., 20 min walk
Funding
Partner
Convening #2
December 13–15, 2016
�Workshop
Landscapes Open in
the Empty Self
Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana
Nuclear Pacific
by Nabil Ahmed
with Ravi Agarwal, Ute Meta Bauer,
Zuleikha Chaudhari, Stefanie Hessler,
Amar Kanwar, KHOJ (Sitara Chowfla,
Radha Mehandru, and Pooja Sood),
Davor Vidas, Linz Wilbur
by Sharmistha Mohanty
Vasco da Gama Plaza
8.30 –9.45 am
7–8 pm
Protocol of the Sea
Watch, Action of the
Crow’s Nest
Cochin Club
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
“Ambiguous Objects”
and the University
Museum
Workshop
Vasco da Gama Plaza
8–10 pm
10.30 am–12.30 pm
Unpredictable Oceans
and the Monstrosity of
the Sea
Guided visit of the installation
and sound piece
Cochin Club
Nuclear Pacific
by ESTAR(SER)
Breakfast area of Fragrant
Nature Hotel
by Nabil Ahmed
with Ravi Agarwal, Ute Meta Bauer,
Zuleikha Chaudhari, Stefanie Hessler,
Amar Kanwar, KHOJ (Sitara Chowfla,
Radha Mehandru, and Pooja Sood),
Davor Vidas, Linz Wilbur
Workshop
“Ambiguous Objects”
and the University
Museum
Closed workshop,
various sites in Fort Kochi
by Jamie Y. Shi
Cochin Club
by TJ Demos
Cochin Club
ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക
2–5 pm
Workshop for children
Fish Tails and Fish
Tales
with Filipa Ramos
Cochin Club
by Aveek Sen
Vasco da Gama Plaza
7–8 pm
Sound performance
Drifting
by Jana Winderen
Vasco da Gama Plaza
8–10 pm
Short films
Elementary Maps No. 3
by Anna Bella Geiger
Occidente by Ana Vaz
The Disappearance of
the Aïtus by Pauline Julier
Cargo by Laura Waddington
Brouillard—Passage 14
by Alexandre Larose
Sea of Vapors
by Sylvia Schedelbauer
originally selected for the Dhaka Art
Summit program Passages
by Shanay Jhaveri
Vasco da Gama Plaza
December
13 –15
Keynote
by Clémentine Deliss
Closed workshop,
various sites in Fort Kochi
Cochin Club
Exhibition of books
by Jegan Vincent de Paul
Closed workshop,
deep-sea vessel by CMLRE
Vasco da Gama Plaza
7–8 pm
3–4 pm
Guided visit of the installation
and sound piece
Oceans–
sketches and notes
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
by Joan Jonas
Vasco da Gama Plaza
Cochin Club
ALL DAY
Installation and sound piece
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
by Christopher Myers
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
by Christopher Myers
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
8–10 pm
Short films
Collective
ALL DAY
by Francesca von Habsburg
by Ho Rui An
Workshop
Various sites in Fort Kochi
From the (Kula) Ring to
the Belt (& Road)
Rising Sea Levels
Reading a Wave
2–5 pm
by The Propeller Group
Workshop
Prose reading
Wutharr, Saltwater
Dreams by Karrabing Film
The Episodic
2–5 pm
6.30 –7 pm
Swimmy by Leo Lionni & Giulio
Film shoot
“Ambiguous Objects”
and the University
Museum
6–6.30 pm
Gianini with Ishu Patel
ALL DAY
Workshop
Performative talk
Midday, uccaykk, avatea
The Tagore Letters
2–5 pm
Cochin Club
by Davor Vidas
moderated by Ute Meta Bauer
with Ravi Agarwal, Nabil Ahmed,
D. Graham Burnett, TJ Demos, Jegan
Vincent de Paul, Markus Reymann,
Davor Vidas
by Clémentine Deliss
ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക
The Capitalocene
Pacific
Structured conversation
2–5 pm
Poetry reading
2–5 pm
The Document’s
Expanded Field
Keynote
The Law of the Sea —
through time and place
The Ocean as Habitat:
The rights of nature
and the international
Law of the sea
Midday, uccaykk, avatea
6.30 –7 pm
Workshop
10.30 am–12.30 pm
Cochin Club
Dusk, sandhya, maruapö
8.30 –9.45 am
Protocol of the Sea
Watch, Action of the
Crow’s Nest
Workshop
Dusk, sandhya, maruapö
Cochin Club
5–5.30 pm
Attentional exercise
2–5 pm
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
സന്ധ്യ
പ്രഭാതം
ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക
December 14
by Jamie Y. Shi
by Christopher Myers
moderated by Stefanie Hessler
with Nabil Ahmed, Ute Meta Bauer,
Georg Eder, Amar Kanwar, Charles Lim,
Markus Reymann, Davor Vidas
by Christopher Myers
2–5 pm
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
The Ocean as
Treasure Trove:
Deep-sea mining —
the next gold rush?
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
Vasco da Gama Plaza
Midday, uccaykk, avatea
Guided visit of the installation
and sound piece
Structured conversation
3–4 pm
selected by the Dharamshala
International Film Festival
introduced by Ritu Sarin &
Tenzing Sonam
Cochin Club
3–4 pm
10.30 am–12.30 pm
by Gianfranco Rosi
moderated by Ute Meta Bauer
with Tanya Abraham, Natasha Ginwala,
Ho Rui An, Joan Jonas, Filipa Ramos,
Vivek Vilasini, Daniela Zyman
The Document’s
Expanded Field
Breakfast area of Fragrant
Nature Hotel
Closed workshop,
various sites in Fort Kochi
Fire at Sea
Structured conversation
by ESTAR(SER)
by Clémentine Deliss
Film
8.30 –9.45 am
Protocol of the Sea
Watch, Action of the
Crow’s Nest
2–5 pm
by Christopher Myers
Breakfast area of Fragrant
Nature Hotel
Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana
Attentional exercise
Perfomative talk
by ESTAR(SER)
Workshop
പ്രഭാതം
Poetry reading
December 15
2–5 pm
സന്ധ്യ
പ്രഭാതം
6.30 –7 pm
Attentional exercise
സന്ധ്യ
പ്രഭാതം
December 13
Dusk, sandhya, maruapö
5–6.30 pm
5–6.30 pm
The Document’s
Expanded Field
Performative talk
Introduction
Europium by Lisa Rave
Toilets Not Temples
by Jamie Y. Shi
by Will Benedict & David Leonard
by Anthony Acciavatti &
D. Graham Burnett
Into The Current
moderated by Daniela Zyman
with Ute Meta Bauer, Cesar Garcia,
Francesca von Habsburg, Stefanie
Hessler, Markus Reymann
Cochin Club
Cochin Club
selected and introduced by
Filipa Ramos
Vasco da Gama Plaza
WATER MACHINES
Cochin Club
Please find detailed information
about the program inside.
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Dates
Participants
December 13–15, 2016
8.30 am–10 pm
Tanya Abraham
Anthony Acciavatti
Ravi Agarwal
Nabil Ahmed
Ute Meta Bauer
D. Graham Burnett
Zuleikha Chaudhari
Sitara Chowfla
Clémentine Deliss
TJ Demos
Georg Eder
Senator J. Kalani English
ESTAR(SER)
Cesar Garcia
Natasha Ginwala
Francesca von Habsburg
Stefanie Hessler
Ho Rui An
Shanay Jhaveri
Joan Jonas
Amar Kanwar
Lelei Tui Samoa LeLaulu
Charles Lim
Matt Lucero
Radha Mehandru
Sharmistha Mohanty
Christopher Myers
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Jegan Vincent de Paul
Filipa Ramos
Markus Reymann
Ritu Sarin
Aveek Sen
Jamie Y. Shi
Tenzing Sonam
Pooja Sood
Matthew Strother
Phunam Thuc Ha
Davor Vidas
Vivek Vilasini
Linz Wilbur
Jana Winderen
Daniela Zyman
Venue Locations
Cochin Club
Vasco da Gama Plaza
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
Various sites in Fort Kochi
Venue Partner
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016
Categories
Exhibition of books
Film screenings
Film shoot
Guided visits
Installation and sound piece
Keynotes
Performances
Poetry readings
Structured conversations
Talks
Workshops
�The
Current
The Current is the exploratory soul of
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. An
experimental fellowship program based in the Pacific,
The Current was born out of a deep concern for
the oceans and an even deeper curiosity about and
love for their interconnected ecosystems, staggering
biodiversity, and the cultural diversity of people who
live on their shores. Covering nearly 71 percent of
the earth’s surface, the oceans provide a habitat for
99 percent of life on our planet. They are home to
both the largest animal and the mightiest living reef
structure on our planet, the Great Barrier Reef. The
reef can be seen from the moon, an environment we
know more about than we know about the oceans. The
oceans are our life support system, providing us with
every other breath we take.
The oceans are being severely exploited and polluted.
They are used as a dump site for things that we want
to make disappear. But the ocean has an unmatched
ability to regenerate. Previously unimaginable
organisms living on chemical energy have been
discovered to reside in deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
Yet many of these vents are rich in rare earth metals
essential for electronic consumer products and have
become targets of a new industry with predictably
devastating effects: deep-sea mining.
The events of recent weeks in international
politics have underlined the urgency to act and to
communicate the global challenges of our time
far beyond the silos of our disciplines. The sea has
been a source of inspiration for human culture for
centuries, but due to the state it is in, and politicians’
lack of vision, it is imperative that we shape a different
narrative. The Current Convening #2 attempts just
that: to foster collaborations between international
practitioners of different disciplines, to imagine
together with an engaged audience positive visions for
the future, and to formulate strategies to put these into
action. We no longer have the luxury of ignorance and
procrastination. It is in this spirit that we invite you to
actively participate in this program, which is designed
to spark your curiosity, inspire, and entertain you.
Markus Reymann, director, TBA21–Academy
�Convening #2
TBA21–Academy presents The Current Convening #2
on the occasion of the opening of the Kochi-Muziris
Biennale 2016.
Convening #2 is a three-day program profoundly
dedicated to the oceans. It aims to reexamine and
unfold questions arising from the ethics of exploration,
the rights of nature and the international law of the
sea, processes of image and knowledge making,
collaborative modes of exchange, as well as sharing
poetic approaches to currents and flows of water
across cultures. We invite you to participate in this
engaging program of structured conversations,
workshops, performances, talks, and screenings
convened by The Current expedition leaders Ute Meta
Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21–Academy curator
Stefanie Hessler.
The Convening takes the form of an archipelago of
processes sited throughout Fort Kochi. The Cochin
Club functions as a central hub encouraging unique
moments of daily encounter among The Current
Fellows, local participants, and visiting guests.
Expanding beyond the hub, the Convening is nested
in the city’s urban spaces, in the central Vasco da
Gama Plaza, in the spice market, in its museums, and
on the shores of the sea. Kochi’s maritime history and
narratives shaped by trade, migration, and travel at sea,
alongside contemporary concerns such as dredging
and labor conditions, resonate in today’s cultural
consciousness in the city and form the discursive
background for the Convening.
�Daily
Structure
Following the biorhythms of different organisms and
environments, located in the zones of indeterminacy
between night and day, dawn and dusk, shade and
light, the Convening is organized according to three
different times of day:
Dawn
Malayalam: sandhya പ്രഭാതം, Tahitian: hitiraa mahana
ATTENTIONAL EXERCISES
Each morning, research associates of the collective
ESTAR(SER) www.estarser.net lead interested
participants in an exercise of sustained attention to the
water forms in and around Kochi.
STRUCTURED CONVERSATIONS
Occurring every morning in the Cochin Club, the
structured conversations offer spaces of encounter,
debate, and exchange.
Midday
Malayalam: uccaykk ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക, Tahitian: avatea
്
FELLOWS PROJECTS
Occurring at various sites and throughout the duration
of the Convening, the Fellows projects are “works
in progress” contributions by the participants in the
expeditions.
TEMPORARY ACADEMY
A major goal of The Current is to generate new models
for collective learning and knowledge dissemination.
The Temporary Academy encompasses an exhibition
of books and a series of workshops.
Dusk
Malayalam: prabhatam സന്ധ്യ, Tahitian: maruapö
HUB NIGHTS
Each evening, the Cochin Club is activated with
�keynote talks, readings, and other interventions from
a host of contributing voices. Organized thematically
and drawing on a cross-section of interests,
these gatherings aim to experiment with forms of
presentation that allow for expanded engagement with
the oceans.
PLAZA CONFLUENCES
Poetry readings, performances, and film screenings at
the Vasco da Gama Plaza in Fort Kochi engage with
the oceans from a variety of perspectives.
About
TBA21
Founded in 2002 by Francesca von Habsburg in Vienna,
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21)
represents the fourth generation of the Thyssen family’s
commitments to the arts. After more than fourteen
years of collecting, commissioning projects, and
engaged exhibition practice, TBA21 has established
a highly respected collection of more than seven
hundred contemporary artworks in the field of new
media, including film, video, light, sound and mixedmedia installations, sculpture, painting, photography,
and performance. TBA21’s unique collection is the
result of its ongoing commitment to commissioning
and disseminating numerous art projects, including
multimedia installations, sound compositions, endurance
performances, and contemporary architecture. This
has led to its pioneering reputation in the art world.
The foundation sustains a far-reaching regional and
international orientation through collaborations with
other cultural partners around the world and explores
modes of presentation that are intended to provoke and
broaden the way viewers perceive and experience art. In
2015 Francesca von Habsburg decided to dedicate the
foundation’s ongoing program to becoming an agent of
change by focusing on the complexities and urgencies
of the “Anthropocene era” as well as the pressing
challenges posed by climate change, with a special
focus on marine ecosystems.
�Itinerary
December
13 –15
DEC 13 –15
ALL DAY
Film shoot
Various sites in
Fort Kochi
Please check
www.tba21.org/
convening2kochi
for updates
DEC 13 –15
ALL DAY
Exhibition of books
Cochin Club
The Episodic
by The Propeller Group
The Propeller Group is a cross-disciplinary structure
for creating ambitious art projects, headquartered in
Ho Chi Minh City. The Episodic is The Propeller Group’s
ongoing project within The Current. Conceived as a
social media organism that occupies multiple online
platforms, The Episodic presents a series of connected
moments in the form of short videos and images that
weave interconnected narratives about the ocean and
the histories of exploration. The Episodic aims to create
a structure for content that can connect participants
in The Current with communities encountered through
travel, audiences of the Convenings, and other
makers and cultural figures. In The Episodic, everyone
involved is a producer and a curator at once. During
the Convening, The Propeller Group stages a series
of improvisational and responsive shoots that will
eventually create content for The Episodic.
From the (Kula) Ring
to the Belt (& Road)
by Jegan Vincent de Paul
The Current Fellow Jegan Vincent de Paul presents
a selection of books that are part of a collection
of materials and ongoing research that he has
�undertaken to examine (un)official perspectives on
Chinese state-led infrastructure construction across
the Indian Ocean littoral, attempting to reveal the
political fallout of the routes and its general social,
cultural, and economic effects.
DEC 13 –15
ALL DAY
Installation and
sound piece
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
by Christopher Myers
While international capital and information technologies
circulate around the globe at dizzying speeds,
there are other forms of globalization that predate
these technological conduits. In local marketplaces
throughout the world, exchange systems that have
lasted for centuries continue to connect communities,
cementing relations between far-flung geographies in
the intimacy of goods bought for family dinners and in
the age-old rituals of negotiation and haggling that are
familiar everywhere from Papua New Guinea to New
York City street corners.
Marketplace [Cartography 4] is an installation and
sound piece by Christopher Myers that utilizes the
discarded materials and evidence of these ancient
and contemporary exchanges in order to highlight
the overall unity in the rituals of trade and to rethink
globalization from the vernacular and the cultural,
rather than through formal and capital relations.
�December
13
പ്രഭാതം
DEC 13
8.30–9.45 am
Attentional exercise
Breakfast area of
Fragrant Nature
Hotel
DEC 13
10.30 am–12.30 pm
Structured
conversation
Cochin Club
Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana
Protocol of the Sea
Watch, Action of the
Crow’s Nest
by ESTAR(SER)
The amphibious Irish-American-Polynesian naturalistexplorer known as “M. I. Return Maycomb” (1764–
1818?) traced a marginal and meandering course at
the peripheries of sea-knowledge and self-craft on the
watershed of modernity. Was he associated with the
Order of the Third Bird? New evidence, in the form of
the Protocol of the Sea Watch, suggests that he was.
This “attentional exercise” appears to derive from
the habitus of nineteenth-century sailors, who spent
years daily regarding the surface of the sea from their
perches aloft, scanning for signs of shoals, whales, and
weather. Each morning of The Current Convening #2,
interested individuals are invited to join visiting research
associates of the collective ESTAR(SER) to experiment
with a reconstruction of the Protocol of the Sea Watch.
Unpredictable Oceans
and the Monstrosity of
the Sea
moderated by Ute Meta Bauer
with Tanya Abraham, Natasha Ginwala, Ho Rui An, Joan
Jonas, Filipa Ramos, Vivek Vilasini, and Daniela Zyman
This conversation catalyzes narratives of mythological
and cultural encounters with the sea, inspired by
primordial, monstrous, and chaotic associations.
�Artists, philanthropists, practitioners, and writers
come together to share their different perspectives
and forms of engagement with the oceans as moving,
compelling, and precarious entities. The Current
expedition leader Ute Meta Bauer moderates this
conversation about the seas as unpredictable spaces
that are constantly in flux, whose unstable perimeters
are presently migrating due to climate change
and shifts in oceanic traditions, giving rise to new
challenges and evoking new imaginaries.
ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക
DEC 13
2–5 pm
Workshop
Cochin Club
Midday, uccaykk, avatea
The Document’s
Expanded Field
by Jamie Y. Shi
Writer Jamie Y. Shi explores the publication as
a site to document long-term, process-based
projects beyond the image or video form. Thinking
about experimental writing as a method, Shi works
with five local emerging writers to collect distinct
types of discursive elements from the Convening—
transcripts from conversations, interviews with project
participants, improvisational poetry, and scripts—to
be included in a publication that will index the various
depths, relationships, and intensities that form The
Current. After the Convening, Shi will assemble a
collective library of resources meant to exist on a
website that will provide a communal reading list
of works informing the practices of The Current
participants and collaborators.
�DEC 13
2–5 pm
Workshop
Cochin Club
Nuclear Pacific:
A temporary working group on the
tribunal for French nuclear weapons
testing in Moruroa and Fangataufa
(1966–96)
by Nabil Ahmed
with Ravi Agarwal, Nabil Ahmed, Ute Meta Bauer,
Zuleikha Chaudhari, Stefanie Hessler, Amar Kanwar,
KHOJ (Sitara Chowfla, Radha Mehandru, and Pooja
Sood), Davor Vidas, and Linz Wilbur
The Inter-Pacific Ring Tribunal (INTERPRT) is an
interdisciplinary project initiated by The Current Fellow
Nabil Ahmed for an alternative commission of inquiry to
investigate patterns of environmental violence and their
impact on sovereignty in the Pacific region regarding
land-based mining, deep-sea mining, and nuclear
weapons testing. Unfolding the Pacific ring as a spatial
diagram, the project tactically deploys architecture to
evidence spatial realities of mineral extraction as well
as spatially diffused and temporally protracted forms
of environmental violence. Following The Current’s
recent expedition to French Polynesia in July 2016, this
workshop constitutes a temporary antinuclear working
group for the Pacific. With India’s membership in the
“nuclear club” in perspective, the group seeks to test
the conditions for a future tribunal to emerge—one that
aims to hold those responsible materially accountable
for the devastating nuclear weapons tests that were
conducted on and around the atolls of Moruroa and
Fangataufa between 1966 and 1996, as well as the
tests’ contemporary planetary impacts.
DEC 13
2–5 pm
Workshop
Closed workshop,
various sites in Fort
Kochi
“Ambiguous Objects”
and the University
Museum
by Clémentine Deliss
The workshop invites museum professionals, academics,
and those interested in museum collections to take
�with a public
interface on
December 15,
2–5 pm, at the
Cochin Club
DEC 13
3–4 pm
Guided visit of the
installation and
sound piece
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
part in a three-day transdisciplinary, experimental
exercise around “ambiguous objects.” In the first of
three sessions, the workshop investigates a historical
museum collection in Kochi in search of artifacts that
blur the distinctions between nature and culture and
sea and land, constituting “enigmatic debris” (“épaves
énigmatiques,” Paul Valéry, 1921). During the second
session, participants identify and acquire, where
possible, unfamiliar artifacts from a local secondhand
market that for them evoke the poetic uncertainty
of meanings in the twenty-first century. The final and
third session includes a discussion of the “ambiguous
objects” acquired by each of the participants and an
open exchange with the public. Through this inquiry,
the workshop explores the potential for the remediation
of historical artifacts using the format of a “museumuniversity,” a site of dialogical experimentation and
research centered on museum collections.
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
by Christopher Myers
Please find detailed information about the installation
and sound piece in the ALL DAY program at the
beginning of the itinerary.
5–6
Intro
Int
സന്ധ്യ
Dusk, sandhya, maruapö
The evening starts off with an introduction to The
Current and questions related to the ethics of visiting
when embarking on expeditions, forms and tactics
of structuring the gaze, and the eye of the camera.
At the heart of this evening are a poetry reading by
the celebrated author Sharmistha Mohanty and a
performance by the artist and illustrator Christopher
Myers, tapping into interrogations of broader histories
of methods in visual ethnography, mapping, and
knowledge and meaning making.
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�DEC 13
5–6.30 pm
Introduction
Cochin Club
DEC 13
6.30–7 pm
Poetry reading
Vasco da Gama
Plaza
DEC 13
7–8 pm
Performative talk
Vasco da Gama
Plaza
Into The Current
moderated by Daniela Zyman
with Ute Meta Bauer, Cesar Garcia, Francesca von
Habsburg, Stefanie Hessler, and Markus Reymann
Organized as a presentation by the founder of TBA21,
Francesca von Habsburg, and the director of
TBA21–Academy, Markus Reymann, “Into The Current”
brings into conversation the expedition leaders Ute
Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21-Academy
curator Stefanie Hessler. The conversation homes in on
cross-disciplinary encounters and new research-based
working modes within the framework of knowledge
transfer and exchange of The Current. Panelists
introduce the program of Convening #2, look back at
the previous expeditions, and discuss the potential
of The Current for collectively creating visions for the
deep future, enhanced though the intervention of an
artistic imagination.
Landscapes Open in
the Empty Self
by Sharmistha Mohanty
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
by Christopher Myers
Christopher Myers comes from a long line of
storytellers. His performative talk traces new and
vernacular forms of globalization in sound, media, and
culture, thinking about how urban music, film, dance,
images, and marketplaces transcend the local and
provide new models for transnational communications.
�DEC 13
8–10 pm
Film
Vasco da Gama
Plaza
Fire at Sea
Gianfranco Rosi, 2016, 114 min.
Selected by the Dharamshala International Film Festival
introduced by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam
Situated 150 miles south of Sicily, Lampedusa has
made headlines as the first port of call for hundreds
of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees
hoping to make a new life in Europe. After spending
months living on the island and engaging with its
inhabitants, Rosi accumulated an extraordinary array of
footage, portraying the history, culture, and daily lives
of the islanders. Focusing on twelve-year-old Samuele
as he explores the land and attempts to gain mastery
of the sea, the film slowly builds a breathtakingly
naturalistic portrait of the Lampedusan people and the
events that surround them.
�December
14
പ്രഭാതം
DEC 14
8.30–9.45 am
Attentional exercise
Breakfast area of
Fragrant Nature
Hotel
DEC 14
10.30 am – 12.30 pm
Structured
conversation
Cochin Club
Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana
Protocol of the Sea
Watch, Action of the
Crow’s Nest
by ESTAR(SER)
Every morning, interested individuals are invited to
join visiting research associates of the collective
ESTAR(SER) to experiment with a reconstruction of the
Protocol of the Sea Watch.
The Ocean as Habitat:
The rights of nature
and the international
law of the sea
moderated by Ute Meta Bauer
with Ravi Agarwal, Nabil Ahmed, D. Graham Burnett,
TJ Demos, Jegan Vincent de Paul, Markus Reymann,
and Davor Vidas
Climate change, pollution, and other habitat-altering
agents are endangering the “common heritage of
humankind.” The ocean as a global waste bin is hardly
addressed as a result of insufficient international
regulations of the sea. The constantly changing
parameters and unpredictable developments of
the oceans prompt a need to rethink and rewrite
the obsolete international law of the sea that was
conceived under the relative stability of the Holocene
epoch. The conversation puts forward interdisciplinary
�perspectives from the fields of art, ecology, law, and
policy, recognizing the earth and its ecosystems as
living beings with inalienable rights to exist, persist,
maintain, and regenerate their vital cycles.
ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക
DEC 14
2–5 pm
Workshop for
children
Cochin Club
To sign up for the
workshop, please email
kochiworkshops@tba21.org
Midday, uccaykk, avatea
Fish Tails and Fish Tales
by Filipa Ramos
The workshop is for children aged 5–11. Together
we’ll write one and many stories, thinking about
how tales are told, inventing new ways of combining
memory with discovery and imagination, and
discussing the ways in which we share experiences,
visions, and emotions with others.
The starting point for the workshop is a set of
images that were taken during The Current’s recent
expedition to the Tuamotu Archipelago, in French
Polynesia: pictures of fish, of crabs, of birds, but
also of desert islands, of ecological disasters, and of
people working and thinking together. How do images
lead to stories? And how do stories convey images?
In this workshop we’ll explore the stories that images
tell and the images that stories summon.
DEC 14
2–5 pm
Workshop
Cochin Club
To sign up for the
workshop, please email
kochiworkshops@tba21.org
The Document’s
Expanded Field
by Jamie Y. Shi
Please find detailed information in the program of
December 13, 2–5 pm.
�DEC 14
2–5 pm
Workshop
Cochin Club
Nuclear Pacific:
A temporary working group on the
tribunal for French nuclear weapons
testing in Moruroa and Fangataufa
(1966–96)
Please find detailed information in the program of
December 13, 2–5 pm.
DEC 14
2–5 pm
Workshop
Closed workshop,
various sites in Fort
Kochi,
with a public interface
on December 15,
2–5 pm, at the
Cochin Club
DEC 14
3–4 pm
Guided visit of the
installation and
sound piece
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
സന്ധ്യ
“Ambiguous Objects”
and the University
Museum
by Clémentine Deliss
Please find detailed information in the program of
December 13, 2–5 pm.
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
by Christopher Myers
Please find detailed information about the installation
and sound piece in the ALL DAY program at the
beginning of the itinerary.
Dusk, sandhya, maruapö
The evening focuses on the rights of nature, ecological
sustainability, and issues at stake in the law of the
sea. The evening begins with keynotes by TJ Demos,
author of Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and
the Politics of Ecology, and Davor Vidas, director of the
Law of the Sea Program at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute
�in Oslo, followed by a performative talk by the visual
artist and pioneer of video and performance art Joan
Jonas, who reflects on the poetic and spiritual aspects
of nature in the face of climate change.
DEC 14
5–5.30 pm
Keynote
Cochin Club
DEC 14
6–6.30 pm
Keynote
Cochin Club
The Capitalocene
Pacific
by TJ Demos
The Capitalocene proposes an alternative terminology
to the more familiar Anthropocene, designating the
geologic age of the present as founded over centuries
of capitalism-in-nature and nature-in-capitalism,
according to the theorist of world-systems ecology
Jason Moore. Drawing on his forthcoming book Against
the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment
Today, TJ Demos investigates the Capitalocene Pacific
as a site of conflict, one positioned between, on the
one hand, ongoing industrialization and militarization
and, on the other, negative geologic impacts (ocean
acidification, rising sea levels, and mass species
extinctions) and artistic-activist interventions directed
against environmental destruction and catastrophic
climate change—a conflict that will only intensify under
the US presidency of Donald Trump.
The Law of the Sea—
through time and place
by Davor Vidas
There are many ways of looking at the development
of the law of the sea. Let us go on a journey. On a
Sunday in September 1298, we start in the “Great
Sea” (as the Bible calls the Mediterranean): here we
visit a semienclosed sea found within a semienclosed
sea. We then hoist sails and are out on the oceans:
it is the late fifteenth century, the time of European
overseas “discoveries”—and in 1500 we stop at a
place important for the transoceanic spice trade. One
hundred years later: in one strait on an early morning
�in February 1602, we witness something that will lead
to emergence of the law of the sea as a branch of
international law. We then travel onward in time to
an island—it is December 1982, and the end result of
developments so far—UNCLOS—is signed here. Finally,
we arrive at the present day and cast our glance
toward the polar regions: what is going on there—and
what is the outlook?
DEC 14
6.30–7 pm
Prose reading
Reading a Wave
by Ho Rui An
Vasco da Gama
Plaza
DEC 14
7–8 pm
Performative talk
Oceans –
sketches and notes
Vasco da Gama
Plaza
by Joan Jonas
Joan Jonas’s talk conceived for this Convening draws
from a wellspring of materials, literature, mythology,
and the artist’s collections of sketches and notes on
the sea, exploring “the ocean as a poetic, totemic, and
natural entity, as a life source and home to a universe
of beings.” Video footage of underwater scenes—
from Jean Painlevé’s black-and-white reels of sea
creatures to shots of aquariums—intersect poetically
and associatively with excerpts from Herman Melville’s
Moby Dick, Sy Montgomery’s Soul of an Octopus, and
Italo Calvino’s The Aquatic Uncle. The oceans are an
ongoing thematic touchstone in Jonas’s recent works,
such as her project for the United States Pavilion of
the 56th Venice Biennale, They Come to Us without a
Word (2015), a multilayered ambient work addressing
the spiritual aspects of nature through video, drawings,
objects, and sound.
�DEC 14
8–10 pm
Short films
Selected and introduced by Filipa Ramos
Vasco da Gama
Plaza
Leo Lionni and Giulio Gianini, with Ishu Patel, 1966, 6 min.
Swimmy
Swimmy is the story of a little black fish who survived
a school of fish that was eaten by a large tuna. Alone
and scared, different from all the other small red fish,
Swimmy goes from hiding in the seaweed to making
many friends and finding a way that will save them all
from the big fish that terrify them.
Wutharr, Saltwater
Dreams
Karrabing Film Collective, 2016, 29 min.
A delirious, dreamlike film, Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams
is the most experimental of Karrabing Film Collective’s
works to date. Departing from a hypothetical situation
of crisis in the Aboriginal filmmakers’ daily lives, the film
explores how the group addresses it through collective
problem-solving gestures and how the legacy of
colonialism, as well as the imposition of Christian moral
codes and settler-colonial rule of law, condition and
affect ancestral land use and traditional cultures.
Europium
Lisa Rave, 2014, 21 min.
Using various levels of imagery, the essay film Europium
draws connections between Papua New Guinea’s
colonial past and fetish cult, the planned high-tech
excavation of raw materials, and everyday consumer
goods. The film weaves its individual images and
narrative around the rare earth element europium.
Named after the European continent, the material will
be culled from the Bismarck Sea to ensure brilliant
color images on smartphone displays and other flat
screens.
�Toilets Not Temples
Will Benedict & David Leonard, 2014, 26 min.
Toilets Not Temples combines different styles of
narrative–such as live interviews, newsreel, sci-fi genre,
and music video–to portray specific current situations
that concern the production and distribution of food,
from fish farms in Norway to onion plantations in India,
addressing issues of global distribution, agriculture,
environmental collapse, marketing, and trade.
December
15
പ്രഭാതം
DEC 15
8.30–9.45 am
Attentional exercise
Breakfast area of
Fragrant Nature
Hotel
Dawn, prabhatam, hitiraa mahana
Protocol of the Sea
Watch, Action of the
Crow’s Nest
by ESTAR(SER)
Every morning, interested individuals are invited to
join visiting research associates of the collective
ESTAR(SER) to experiment with a reconstruction of the
Protocol of the Sea Watch.
�DEC 15
10.30 am–12.30 pm
Structured
conversation
Cochin Club
The Ocean as
Treasure Trove:
Deep-sea mining—
the next gold rush?
moderated by Stefanie Hessler
with Nabil Ahmed, Ute Meta Bauer, Georg Eder, Amar
Kanwar, Charles Lim, Markus Reymann, and Davor Vidas
Deep-sea mining is a new extractive activity that has
been recognized as an emerging threat to the oceans.
Seabed mining targets polymetallic nodules that are
used in the production of batteries and alloys, and
there are strong indications that this might well be
the next gold rush. Its effects will most likely impact
ecosystems from the microbial level to the structural
constitution of the seabed in a way that we are not
remotely able to anticipate. TBA21-Academy was
present during the 5th Deep-Sea Mining Summit in
London in April 2016 and organized a conference titled
“Design of the Seabed” at the 3rd Istanbul Design
Biennial in November 2016. Departing from these
previous engagements, agents and practitioners from
the fields of art, ecology, law, and science bring greater
visibility to the potentially immense effects on the
future of the oceans and humankind.
ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക
DEC 14
2–5 pm
Workshop
Cochin Club
To sign up for the
workshop, please email
kochiworkshops@tba21.org
Midday, uccaykk, avatea
The Document’s
Expanded Field
by Jamie Y. Shi
Please find detailed information in the program of
December 13, 2–5 pm.
�DEC 14
2–5 pm
Workshop
Closed workshop,
various sites in Fort
Kochi,
with a public interface
on December 15,
2–5 pm, at the
Cochin Club
DEC 15
2–5 pm
Workshop
Closed workshop,
deep-sea vessel by
CMLRE, Kochi, a
research institute
under the Ministry
of Earth Sciences,
Government
of India with a
mandate to study
the marine living
resources
This is a closed workshop,
to find out more,
please email
kochiworkshops@tba21.org
“Ambiguous Objects”
and the University
Museum
by Clémentine Deliss
Please find detailed information in the program of
December 13, 2–5 pm.
Rising Sea Levels
by Francesca von Habsburg
with Ravi Agarwal, Senator J. Kalani English, Francesca
von Habsburg, Lelei Tui Samoa LeLaulu, Davor Vidas,
and Linz Wilbur
Climate change is warming the atmosphere, glaciers
are melting, and sea levels are rising—with surging
waters threatening coastal societies from Venice to
the Pacific. As inhabitants struggle to find methods
of mitigation, migration may be the only solution:
entire countries could disappear altogether over the
next few decades. And so too will ancient dances,
traditional cultures, and spiritual sites. Aside from
economic and geopolitical issues, the case of lost
habitat raises a number of important questions about
cultural, linguistic, and spiritual heritage. Taking as
its site the city of Kochi, which is thought to lie close
to the ancient port city of Muziris, this workshop
considers speculative, bold, ethical, creative, and legal
possibilities to combat the effects of climate change. It
asks whether there may be a plan A to counter forced
migration and, if so, what it might be.
�DEC 15
3–4 pm
Guided visit of the
installation and
sound piece
Spice Market near
Jeevamatha Church
സന്ധ്യ
Marketplace
[Cartography 4]
by Christopher Myers
Please find detailed information about the installation
and sound piece in the ALL DAY program at the
beginning of the itinerary.
Dusk, sandhya, maruapö
The evening is dedicated to flows, passages, and
movements, from the rivers to the sea, to everchanging currents, and to sonic ecological change.
A performative talk by Anthony Acciavatti, architect,
cartographer, and professor at Columbia University,
and D. Graham Burnett, renowned writer, historian
of science, and professor at Princeton University, is
followed by a poetic and associative intervention by
the curator Aveek Sen, circling around waterways
and how these interweave with personal biographies,
memories, and wider ecological concerns. A sound
performance by the artist and former TBA21–Academy
Fellow Jana Winderen turns our attention toward the
sonic dimension of the oceans, making audible water
currents and ecological change occurring in coral reefs.
DEC 15
5–6.30 pm
Performative talk
Cochin Club
WATER MACHINES
by Anthony Acciavatti and D. Graham Burnett
Wallace Stevens’s “Sea Surface Full of Clouds” (1924)
is a poem in five sections, each of which returns to a
single ambiguous scene: the blossoms of water vapor
in a blue sky reflected in the heaving masses of water
below. Across the poem, the sea and the sky function
as mutual mirrors, which produce scintillating inversions
that shake language loose from its moorings and leave
the human adrift upon the “perplexed machine / of
�ocean.” Departing from this image, Anthony Acciavatti
and D. Graham Burnett will sequence through a series
of water systems (hydrographic cycles, oceanographic
structures, monsoon metrics, submarine optics),
unfolding the poetics of techno-rationalizing regimes of
aquatic knowledge.
DEC 15
6.30–7 pm
Poetry reading
Vasco da Gama
Plaza
DEC 15
7–8 pm
Sound performance
Vasco da Gama
Plaza
The Tagore Letters
by Aveek Sen
Between 1887 and 1895 Rabindranath Tagore wrote
a series of letters to his young niece, Indira, from the
banks of a network of rivers in undivided Bengal. In
them the river itself, with its endless flow and the
myriad forms of human and animal life along its
banks, animates the poet’s consciousness: the drift
of his mind, his empathy, his memory, his gaze, his
reading, his letters, essays, stories, songs, and poems,
compulsively written throughout that leisurely time on
the water. Many years later, in 1912, the year before
he was awarded the Nobel Prize, Tagore published
selections from these letters as Chhinnapatra
(Scattered Letters). He based his text on his niece’s
transcriptions of these letters but sequenced them
himself as a work in its own right.
Drifting
by Jana Winderen
Drifting is a sound performance by Jana Winderen
commissioned for Convening #2. From the North
Atlantic Current to the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific
washing onto the shores of Panama, Winderen is
surveying the soundscapes of drifts that fluctuate
according to the temperature, pressure, and salinity
of water and are shaped by invisible landscapes
hidden beneath the waves. Telling stories of currents,
movement, and migration, these sound tracings are
also indicators for the health of ecosystems and the
manifold inhabitants of the seas, from cetaceans to
plankton, as well as mammals, fish, and crustaceans
feeding from these drifting microscopic organisms.
�DEC 15
8–10 pm
Short films
Originally selected for the Dhaka Art Summit program
Passages by Shanay Jhaveri, assistant curator of South
Asian art, Department of Modern and Contemporary
Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Vasco da Gama
Plaza
Elementary Maps No. 3
Anna Bella Geiger, 1976, 10 min.
The visual poem alludes to the stereotypes and myths
attributed to cultures from Latin America through the
relationship between the anthropomorphic character
of the South Cone’s topography and semantic games,
between the formal and the metaphorical.
Occidente
Ana Vaz, 2014, 15 min.
A film-poem of an ecology of signs that speak of a
colonial history repeating itself. Subalterns become
masters, antiques become reproducible dinner sets,
exotic birds become luxury currency, exploration
becomes extreme-sport-tourism, monuments become
geo-data.
The Disappearance of
the Aïtus
Pauline Julier, 2014, 35 min.
A poetic essay about Tuvalu, a micro-state in the
South Pacific that is threatened by rising sea levels.
An analogy between the vanishing of the country itself
and of its inhabitants’ imaginaries. A metaphoric fable
about the electrical modernization of the country. And
scientific information about waves and stories.
�Cargo
Laura Waddington, 2001, 29 min.
Cargo is a lyrical voyage on the Mediterranean
depicted in a series of extended moments. Combining
diaristic text with painterly visuals, Laura Waddington
recounts a dialogue between a mute woman and the
forgotten men who work on a cargo ship. We are drawn
into a nomadic journey at the frontier of European
consciousness, a reflection on what it means to be a
citizen without country, to drift without destination.
Brouillard—Passage 14
Alexandre Larose, 2014, 10 min.
In this film made in his family’s backyard in Lac-SaintCharles, Canada, Alexandre Larose superimposes
walking trajectories shot along a man-made path
leading to a lake. The result is an extremely layered
one-take 35mm film, creating an impression of the
filmmaker’s rich memories of this special place by the
lake, reminiscent of its waters themselves.
Sea of Vapors
Sylvia Schedelbauer, 2014, 15 min.
Sylvia Schedelbauer’s films negotiate the space
between broader historical narratives and personal,
psychological realms through poetic manipulations
of archival footage. Sea of Vapors is a stroboscopic
cascade of evocative images, cut frame by frame
to flow into an allegory of the lunar cycle conflating
landscapes and the human body.
�July 2016 | Tuamotus – French Polynesia | Hydrophone | by Markus Reymann
July 2016 | Tuamotus – French Polynesia | Tree | by Ute Meta Bauer
�July 2016 | Tuamotus – French Polynesia | Diver | by Francesca von Habsburg
October 2015 | The Kula Ring – Papua New Guinea | by Jegan Vincent de Paul
�October 2015 | The Kula Ring – Papua New Guinea | by Francesca von Habsburg
October 2015 | The Kula Ring – Papua New Guinea | Dardanella | by Francesca von Habsburg
�Participants
Zuleikha Chaudhari IN
Artist, theater director, and
lighting designer based in New
Delhi and Mumbai, India
Sitara Chowfla IN
Curator and program manager
at KHOJ International Artists’
Association in New Delhi, India,
since September 2013
Tanya Abraham IN
Journalist, author, and arts
administrator, works for national
and international publications
and is the creative director and
curator of Kashi Art Gallery and
founder of The Art Outreach
Society, Fort Kochi, India
Anthony Acciavatti US
Architect, historian, and
cartographer, founding editor of
Manifest: A Journal of American
Architecture and Urbanism,
professor at Columbia University
Ravi Agarwal IN
Clémentine Deliss UK/DE
Independent curator, publisher, and researcher, Fellow of Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin,
curator of Dilijan Arts Observatory, former director of Weltkulturen
Museum, publisher of Metronome
and Metronome Press
TJ Demos US
Professor in the Department
of the History of Art and Visual
Culture, University of California,
Santa Cruz, and Founder and
Director of its Center for
Creative Ecologies
Artist, environmental activist,
writer, and curator; founder of
the environmental NGO Toxics
Link, New Delhi, India
Georg Eder AT
Project manager at TBA21,
planning and organizing
The Current
Nabil Ahmed UK
Senator J. Kalani
English US
Researcher, writer, and educator
working on environmental
conflict and forensic architecture
Ute Meta Bauer DE/SG
Founding director of NTU CCA
Singapore and professor at
the School of Art, Design and
Media (ADM) at the Nanyang
Technological University (NTU),
expedition leader, The Current
D. Graham Burnett US
Works at the intersection
of historical inquiry and
artistic practice, focusing on
experimental approaches
to hermeneutic activities
traditionally associated with the
research humanities. He’s an
editor at Cabinet and teaches at
Princeton
Represents the 7th Senatorial
District of Hana, East & Upcountry
Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and Kahoolawe and is currently the Majority Leader of the Hawai’i Senate
ESTAR(SER) US
ESTAR(SER) is an established
body of private, independent
scholars who work collectively to
recover, scrutinize, and (where
relevant) draw attention to the
historicity of the Order of the
Third Bird. www.estarser.net
Cesar Garcia MX/US
Founding director and chief curator
of The Mistake Room, Los Angeles;
former associate director and senior
curator of LA><ART (2007–12),
expedition leader, The Current
Natasha Ginwala IN/DE
Curator, researcher, and writer.
Curatorial adviser for documenta
14 as well as curator of Contour
Biennale 8, entitled Polyphonic
Worlds: Justice as Medium
(2017)
Francesca von
Habsburg CH/AT
Philanthropist, founder, and
chairwoman of TBA21 in Vienna
since 2002, commissioner
The Current
Stefanie Hessler DE/SE
Curator of TBA21–Academy
and writer from Germany,
cofounder of the art
space Andquestionmark in
Stockholm, curator of several
exhibitions around the world,
from Chile to Sweden
Rui An Ho SG
Artist and writer working in the
intersections of contemporary
art, cinema, performance, and
theory
Shanay Jhaveri IN/US
Assistant curator for South Asian
modern and contemporary art at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York
Joan Jonas US
World-renowned multimedia
artist who has exhibited
around the world, including in
Documenta and the Biennale
of Sydney, as well as in a solo
exhibition at the Museum of
Modern Art, New York
Amar Kanwar IN
Filmmaker and artist, recipient of
several awards, including Golden Gate at the San Francisco
Film Festival (1999); the Edward
Munch Award for Contemporary
Art, Norway (2005); and the
Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art
and Social Change (2014)
�Lelei Tui Samoa
LeLaulu US
Special adviser to the World
Bank for oceans, member
of the Advisory Council of
the International Finance
Corporation (IFC), a director of
the Caribbean Media Exchange
on Sustainable Tourism, and
chairman of the Earth Council
Alliance, Apia, Samoa
Charles Lim SG
Award-winning filmmaker
and world-renowned artist,
founder of the art collective
TSUNAMII.NET, founder of
Bobbing Buoy Films
Matt Lucero US/VN
Graduated from the California
Institute of the Arts in 2003 and
is an artist and member of The
Propeller Group since 2009
Radha Mehandru IN
Filmmaker and a member of the
KHOJ curatorial and program
team who focuses on the organization’s community-based projects and outreach
Sharmistha Mohanty IN
Author of three prose works,
Book One, New Life, and Five
Movements in Praise. She is also
the founder and editor of the
literature journal Almost Island
Christopher Myers US
Widely acclaimed for his work
with literature for young people,
and is also an accomplished fine
artist who has lectured and
exhibited internationally
Tuan Andrew Nguyen VN
Cofounder of the Propeller Group
and cofounder of Sàn Art, an
artist-initiated exhibition space
and educational program in Saigon, Vietnam. Has works in the
collections of the Queensland Art
Gallery; Carré d’Art; the Museum
of Modern Art, New York; and the
Guggenheim Museum
Jegan Vincent de
Paul LK/SG
Worked as researcher and
designer in various capacities
around the world: from Ai
Weiwei to LOT-EK architecture
firm, research fellow at MIT
Program in Art, Culture and
Technology, cofounder of
Counter, cofounder and writer
for critical.org
Filipa Ramos PT/UK
Writer and editor based in
London, where she works as
editor-in-chief of art-agenda.
Her research focuses on the
historical and contemporary
intersections of humans and
other animals in art and cinema
Markus Reymann DE/AT
Director of TBA21-Academy
and The Current, initiator of
numerous expeditions aboard
the Dardanella, a moving
platform of cultural production
and interdisciplinary exchange
within TBA21
Ritu Sarin IN
Filmmaker, artist, cofounder and
codirector of the Dharamshala
International Film Festival
Aveek Sen IN
Writer on art, literature, music,
and society, associate editor at
The Telegraph, Calcutta
Jamie Y. Shi US
Editor-at-large at MISPRINT and
special projects manager at the
Mistake Room, Los Angeles;
curatorial assistant at Shanghai
Project
Tenzing Sonam IN
Filmmaker, artist, cofounder and
codirector of the Dharamshala
International Film Festival
Pooja Sood IN
Independent curator and
art management consultant,
founding member and director
of KHOJ International Artists’
Association
Matthew Strother US
Writer, reader, and occasional
performer. He received a BA from
Yale in English and an M.A. from the
New School for Social Research in
Liberal Studies. He is a member of
the speculative historiographical
collective ESTAR(SER)
Phunam Thuc Ha VN
Specialist in filmmaking and
antiquities, has restored antique
sculptures as well as produced
feature films; cofounder of The
Propeller Group
Davor Vidas HR/NO
Research professor, director of
the Law of the Sea Programme,
Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway
Vivek Vilasini IN
Multimedia artist, trained in
sculptural practices from
traditional craftsman, works
recently shown at MOCA,
Shanghai, CCCB, Barcelona,
Chicago Art Fair, Newark
Museum, in the Sharjah Biennale
and in the show Indian Highway
at Astrup Fearnley Museum of
Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Linz Wilbur US
Independent researcher and
affiliate at the Hawaii Research
Center for Futures Studies,
Honolulu, USA
Jana Winderen NO
Multichannel artist, researcher of
hidden depths with technology
and audio
Daniela Zyman AT
Chief curator of TBA21 in
Vienna, co-commissioner
The Current
�Organizers
Founder & chairwoman
TBA21, commissioner
The Current
Francesca von
Habsburg
Chief curator, TBA21,
co-commissioner
The Current
Daniela Zyman
Executive, Conference,
Workshops & Archive, NTU
Centre for Contemporary Art
Singapore
Samantha Leong
Min Yu
Curator, Outreach & Education,
NTU Centre for Contemporary
Art Singapore
Magdalena Magiera
Programming
Chief curator, TBA21,
co-commissioner
The Current
Daniela Zyman
Curator, TBA21
Boris Ondreička
Assistant curator, TBA21
Cory Scozzari
Director, TBA21–Academy
Assistant curator, TBA21
Markus Reymann
Frederike Sperling
TBA21 The Current expedition
leader, founding director,
NTU Centre for Contemporary
Art Singapore
Head of Publications
Eva Ebersberger
Collection
Ute Meta Bauer
TBA21 The Current expedition
leader; founding director and
chief curator of the Mistake
Room, Los Angeles
Cesar Garcia
Curator, TBA21–Academy
Stefanie Hessler
Project manager,
TBA21–Academy
Georg Eder
Production assistant,
TBA21–Academy
Isabella Cavalletti
Production assistant,
TBA21–Academy
Head of Collection
Simone Sentall
Colophon TBA21
Founder & chairwoman
TBA21, commissioner
The Current
Registrar Collection &
Exhibitions
Elizabeth Stevens
Francesca von
Habsburg
Registrar Collection &
Exhibitions
Trustees
Media
Udo Kittelmann
Istvan Nagy
TBA21–Academy
Director, TBA21–Academy
Andrea Hofinger
Head of Media
Sophie Bayerlein
Project Manager Media
Elodie Grethen
Markus Reymann
Development
Natasa Venturi
Curator, TBA21–Academy
Project manager
Producer, What About Art?
Stefanie Hessler
Susanne Janetzki
Project manager,
TBA21–Academy
Project manager
Eve Lemesle
Producer, What About Art?
Afrah Shafiq
Georg Eder
Azra Demir Ramovic
Financing & Administration
Karin Berger
�
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The Current Convening #2 Conference Guides
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NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is pleased to be the funding partner of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary–Academy (TBA21) for <i>The Current Convening #2</i> in numerous locations on the occasion of the opening of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016.<br /><br /><i>The Current</i> is an exploratory fellowship program based in the Pacific. Working collaboratively across disciplines, the program merges the diverse approaches of deeply committed practitioners, collectively conceptualizing ways to address climate change and environmental violence to the oceans. Expeditions aboard the Dardanella research vessel are followed by <i>Convenings</i> in which the investigations of the Expedition leaders and participants can be shared with an audience. <i>The Convening #2</i> is profoundly dedicated to the oceans, taking poetic approaches to currents and flows of water across cultures. Please join us for three days of structured conversations, workshops, performances, talks, and screenings convened by<i> The Current</i> Expedition leaders Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21-Academy curator Stefanie Hessler. Organized by Markus Reymann.
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2016-12-13/2016-12-15
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Francesca von Habsburg
Daniela Zyman
Markus Reyman
Stefanie Hessler
Ute Meta Bauer
Cesar Garcia
Joan Jonas
Amar Kanwar
Davor Vidas
Natasha Ginwala
Ravi Agarwal
Nabil Ahmed
Filipa Ramos
Christopher Myers
The Propeller Group
Jana Winderen
Jamie Y. Shi
Sharmistha Mohanty
Ritu Sharin
Tenzing Sonam
Jegan Vincent de Paul
Vivek Vilasini
TJ Demos
Ho Rui An
Charles Lim
Anthony Acciavatti
D. Graham Burnett
Aveek Sen
Shanay Jhaveri
Clémentine Deliss
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Southeast Asia