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Ravi Agarwal - Lecture and Conversation
Ravi Agarwal is an artist, environmental campaigner, writer and curator who addresses entangled questions through an interrelation of art, research and activism, focusing on the subject of nature and its futures. Agarwal is a co-convener of Bergen Assembly 2025 together with writer and visual culture researcher Adania Shibli, and Bergen School of Architecture (BAS).He will [&...
Ravi Agarwal is an artist, environmental campaigner, writer and curator who addresses entangled questions through an interrelation of art, research and activism, focusing on the subject of nature and its futures. Agarwal is a co-convener of Bergen Assembly 2025 together with writer and visual culture researcher Adania Shibli, and Bergen School of Architecture (BAS).
He will present a lecture about his artistic projects and activism, followed by a conversation with Bergen based artist Michael Stumpf.
Ravi Agarwal (Delhi, 1958) has been shown at major museums in solo and group exhibitions, and at international biennales. He has co-curated large public art exhibitions, including the Yamuna-Elbe project (Hamburg and Delhi, 2009) and Embrace our Rivers (Chennai, 2018). More recently he curated New Natures, A terrible beauty is born at the Goethe Institute and CSMVS Museum, Mumbai, and Imagined Documents at the Les Rencontres d’ Arles 2022. Agarwal is also the founding director of the environmental NGO Toxics Link and the founder of The Shyama Foundation, which engages with art and ecology practices in India. He has both written and edited books and journals, including The Crisis of Climate Change (Routledge, 2021), and Marg Journal of the Arts – Art and Ecology (Mumbai, April 2020).
Store Auditorium, BAS
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Det skal holdes rådsmøte med valg på BAS høst 2024. Saker som ønskes behandlet må meldes rådsleder Marina Bauer på mb(at)opaform.no senest mandag 14.oktober kl 12. Valgkomiteens innstilling til valg av eksterne styremedlemmer legges ut senest en uke før møtet, sammen med saksliste og øvrige vedlegg
Det skal holdes rådsmøte med valg på BAS høst 2024.
Saker som ønskes behandlet må meldes rådsleder Marina Bauer på mb(at)opaform.no senest mandag 14.oktober kl 12. Valgkomiteens innstilling til valg av eksterne styremedlemmer legges ut senest en uke før møtet, sammen med saksliste og øvrige vedlegg
Bergen Assembly, Halfdan Kjerulfs gate 4 5017 Bergen
Floating University: Learning with the trouble
The site of Floating University is a rainwater retention basin serving the former Tempelhof airfield in Berlin, where a diverse range of animals, plants and algae have taken root and given birth to a unique landscape: a human-made environment reclaimed by nature where polluted water coexists with the relatively new presence of the University, forming [&...
The site of Floating University is a rainwater retention basin serving the former Tempelhof airfield in Berlin, where a diverse range of animals, plants and algae have taken root and given birth to a unique landscape: a human-made environment reclaimed by nature where polluted water coexists with the relatively new presence of the University, forming a natureculture (Haraway) or a third landscape (Clément).
Sarah Bovelett, Licia Soldavini, Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux, Markus Bader of Floating University will discuss the various aspects of the project, its cycles, the troubles, the learnings and the perspectives of the basin and its agents.
Floating University serves as a living laboratory where polluted water and diverse ecosystems coexist with academic and community activities. One of these activities is the learnscapes program, which emphasises collaborative knowledge production and fosters a space for unlearning, relearning, and co-learning. Floating University challenges traditional educational models by engaging with the site’s natural and human elements, promoting an integrative approach to environmental and social justice.
Floating University is part of the Bergen Assembly + Bergen School of Architecture cross course program (29. Oct - 01. Nov), sharing the course: muddy puddles, uncanny neighbours, dancing with the future, training unknown muscles, opening unknown eyes, from Floating University to Kristiansholm. Traced by Vilde Salhus Røed.
The public lecture is presented in collaboration with Bergen Arkitektforening.
Floating University’s trip to Bergen is funded by the Erasmus + Teaching Staff Mobility program in connection with TU Braunschweig University.
The event is free and open to all.
The Bergen Assembly office is universally accessible from street level and our toilets are gender neutral.
Bergen Assembly, Halfdan Kjerulfs gate 4 5017 Bergen
Sanchayan Ghosh: Santiniketan Pedagogy and the Transforming nature in Kala Bhavana Art Practice
In this lecture, artist and educator Sanchayan Ghosh will present the unique history of Kala Bhavana Fine Arts Institute in Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, where he both studied and now teaches. Ghosh will explore contexts and frameworks that have shaped Santiniketan over the past 100 years, while also addressing current concerns related to its ongoing transformation […]
In this lecture, artist and educator Sanchayan Ghosh will present the unique history of Kala Bhavana Fine Arts Institute in Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, where he both studied and now teaches. Ghosh will explore contexts and frameworks that have shaped Santiniketan over the past 100 years, while also addressing current concerns related to its ongoing transformation as both a site and a cultural situation.
Kala Bhavana Fine Arts Institute was founded by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1919 as part of a larger education project in rural Bengal, India, to initiate an art programme that is a close engagement with its environment and the neighbouring landscape. It emerged through a critical engagement with the prevalent British colonial academism at that time, adopting an eclectic approach to practise drawing on different folk traditions and other traditions of modernism that fostered creative freedom and intercultural exchange. It proposed an internationalism deeply rooted to its context of the local and dynamic engagement with multiple art traditions globally.
Sanchayan Ghosh is an artist and educator from Kolkata with a background from Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, where he currently works as an associate professor in the Department of Painting. Through his continuous exploration in site-specific interactive art practice, Ghosh has over the years been exploring workshop-based collective community dialogues. Ghosh has participated in prestigious events including Documenta 14 and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and continues to shape pedagogy through collaborations with institutions like FICA (Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art).
Ghosh is participating in the Bergen Assembly and Bergen School of Architecture cross course program (29. Oct - 01. Nov) sharing the course, Exploring Tools for Site-Specific Dialogues: Learning with the Forest Way, with Larissa Fassler and Matskogen at Landås.
The event is free and open to all.
The Bergen Assembly office is universally accessible from street level and our toilets are gender neutral.
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