by Arijit Bhattacharyya

Oyouns latest curatorial focus Listening to the Land launches with Species, Soil and Successors by Arijit Bhattacharyya, a curatorial project consisting of three chapters. Based on curatorial research and a remote art residency, the project shares its first creations at Oyoun Berlin on Saturday, 15 July 2023, between 2 pm and 9 pm. In the presence of the curator and participating artists, the first chapter will be presented as part of a conference with lecture performances and a subsequent panel discussion. The second chapter of Species, Soil and Successors will also be opened on 15 July 2023 with a multimedia exhibition at Oyoun.

We are surviving through an epoch of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies extinction and military extractivism. The notion of a collective future beyond human existence is still a far imagination. However, imagination is an essential practice. Imagination succors knowledge applicable in problem-solving and is elemental to integrating experiences in learning. How do we imagine a pluriversal multispecies future?

Species, Soil and Successors imagines framing a complex practice-oriented inquiry into intersectional climate justice by listening to people who are often sidelined. The project tries to imagine a world beyond the colonial touch.

14:00 h – 21:00 h | Lecture Performances, Screening and Panel
With contributions by Hillside Projects, Devadeep Gupta, Lea Maria Wittich and Nilanjan Bhattacharya.

13:00 h – 19:00 h | Multimedia Exhibition

In its second segment, Soil and Successor, the project holds space for artistic engagement in peripheral socioecologies. Through a remote artist residency with Studio 33/3, Swagata Bhattacharyya, and Binita Limbani, the project confronts us with another reality where climate catastrophe structures everyday life. The resulting multimedia exhibition at Oyoun on 15-26 July will present audiovisual works of the residency artists as well as of the artists Devadeep Gupta and Julia Schuster. Some of the video works will be screened at the conference as well.

For press and media inquiries: tariq@oyoun.de