REVEALING RADICAL REALITIES: ART AS KNOWLEDGE FOR TRANSFORMATION

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 16.00-19.00, Färgfabriken, Lövholmsbrinken 1, Liljeholmen
Panel discussion with artists transforming our perceptions of nature, knowledge and sustainability:
Vegan Flava, Pavel Otdelnov, Elise Alloin, Sidonie Hadoux

What can art contribute to our understanding of socio-environmental change? Mainstream sustainability agendas tend to be unimaginative and prevent action and transformation. Art has the capacity to reveal deep realities and imagine radically different futures. As we are incorporating technoscientific knowledge into our policies, we risk excluding alternative ways of knowing (indigenous, embodied, artistic, practical, activist, intuitive, non-human). Art as a way of knowing is pushed out of the political sphere and becomes a commodity for consumption. We call instead for art as an embodied, transformative daily practice.
Centre for Baltic and East European Studies and Färgfabriken invite you to a panel discussion with artists who make art that radically challenges our perceptions of nature, knowledge and sustainability. Join us for a conversation with them, from which we all may walk away enriched by the artists’ relentless commitment to radical leaps of imagination, which leave no stone unturned.

Please register your participation: https://tinyurl.com/CBEES24May

The panel will be followed by a reception.
Moderator: Irina Seits, PhD in Aesthetics, Södertörn University