Lecture by Adrian Ivakhiv “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Mediocene: Reflections on Culture and Ecology in Turbulent Times”
On Friday, January 10, at 18:30, we invite you to attend a lecture by Adrian Ivakhiv “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Mediocene: Reflections on Culture and Ecology in Turbulent Times” as part of the public program for the exhibition of the nominees for the Future Generation Art Prize 2024.
The event will take place on the 4th floor of the PinchukArtCentre in the exhibition space (space with the work of Veronika Hapchenko) in the format of an online lecture. Language of the event: ENGLISH.Participation is free with prior registration: https://forms.gle/LRE74A9YmKsRbH6c9
During the event, the participants will be able to immerse themselves in the context of the work of one of the nominees for the Future Generation Art Prize 2024. This is the Agartha project by the artist Ziyang Wu, in which he views the world as a network of interconnections in natural, cultural, political and digital systems. To get acquainted with the philosophical theories on which the artist relies, we invite you to attend a lecture by Adrian Ivakhiv.
● During the lecture, we will get acquainted with the issues of contemporary environmental humanities;● We will consider the actor-network theory of Bruno Latour and the ‘new materialism’ by Graham Harman and Timothy Morton;● Outline several proposals for understanding contemporary reality - where worldviews explode in digital abundance, resource, and information wars turn into a hybrid struggle of multipolar world disorder, and climate and ecological systems threaten to overturn any remnants of a reliable ‘nature’;● We will try to answer the question: what does it mean to dream of Agartha in these post-liberal, post-humanist, post-natural conditions?
Adrian Ivakhiv holds the J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He is a cultural theorist and ecophilosopher, and author of several books including Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018), Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times (Punctum, 2018), and the forthcoming The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds (Stanford University Press, 2025) and the anthology Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025).
06.01.2025