A Politics of Departure, it Effects in Being Affected
Ayreen Anastas und Rene Gabri (Künstler, New York) mit Ben Morea (Künstler, USA) with Pit Schultz.

starting with the performance at HKW, we were speaking about the situation and around the theme of the anthropocene, the atmospherics, productive and poltitical climate. .. >

A performance. The protagonists: a meteorological entity and a geological entity. The problem: how do the differences among such entities become a difference that makes no difference under the pressure of the Anthropocene? The apparatus: an aquarium populated by plants and a little frog; a large handheld magnifying glass; a blindfold; a mortar and pestle; a digital projection. What results: a transformation.

Begin, Seedy Being!
Geoffrey C. Bowker (School of Information and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine)

This demonstration approaches seeds as simultaneously points of origin and ending. In a performative reading of a set of seeds, cycles of growth, regeneration, and extinction are considered as a motion that propels itself forward, while also rewinding back. A set of observations will be developed while handling the seeds, reflections on temporal alignment, timescales, and material processes of inscription.

A Politics of Departure, it Effects in Being Affected
Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri (artists, New York) with Ben Morea (artist, USA)

A politics of departure is a politics that attempts to destitute the anthropos of capitalism: a politics that affirms the belonging together of life and form, being and use; in which the fundamental concepts are no longer production and praxis, but unworking, use, becoming-with; which does not separate the vital and reproductive activities as unpolitical; and/or a politics no longer centered on the human.

Thanks to: Dr. Stephan Schultka from the Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Museum für Naturkunde for the support of the Demonstration Begin, Seedy being!