Ecologies – Lost, Found and Continued
Screen City Biennial

17–31 October, 2019
Stavanger, Norway
2019.screencitybiennial.org

Artists

Richard Alexandersson, Jonathas de Andrade, Band of Weeds, Andrés Bedoya, Ursula Biemann, Paulo Tavares, Sissel M. Bergh, Vincent Carelli, Marjolijn Dijkman, Toril Johannessen, Saara Ekström, Flatform, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Mai Hofstad Gunnes, Laura Huertas Millán, Mikhail Karikis, Tove Kommedal, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Tuomas A. Laitinen, Michelle-Marie Letelier, Kristina Õllek, Enrique Ramírez, Oliver Ressler, Luiz Roque, Momoko Seto, Emilija Škarnulytė, Andrew Norman Wilson

Concept

Screen City Biennial (SCB) is the first Nordic Art Biennial in public space entirely dedicated to time-base art, moving image and expanded cinema practices. It presents installations, sound performances, AR and VR works that explore the relation between image, sound, new technologies, public and digital spaces.

SCB 2019 sets out to present, facilitate and examine art and artistic inquiry that raise questions of how human action affects the ecologies with which it is implicated. With the theme, Ecologies – Lost, Found and Continued, the Biennial engages a post-anthropocentric worldview: it searches for ecologies that may be ‘lost’ to the dominant imaginary of the modern, rationalized Western society and found in what by some is considered to be the peripheries of this. However, perhaps these are not peripheries but rather deep-rooted centers of knowledge which could guide us towards more sustainable, conscious and spiritually anchored futures, if continued. Bringing these ecologies forth through art, the Biennial asks: how can non-anthropocentric positions and holistic knowledge systems be continued as foundations on which we can move onwards – be brought into new context, inspire processes of innovation, as well as ways of presenting and engaging art?

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SCB Journal

Online publication SCB Journal available here, with contributions by T. J. Demos, Taru Elfving, Tanya Toft Ag, Gabriel Bogossian, Martin Lee Mueller, Randi Nygård, Teresa Dillon, Barnaby Drabble, Oliver Ressler, Kati Ilves, Kristina Õllek, Nathanja van Dijk, Mikhail Karikis, Les U. Knight, Andrew Berardini, Tuomas A. Laitinen, Jenni Nurmenniemi. Edited by Vanina Saracino.