4 day workshop with students of the Liceo Scientifico Lussana at GAMeC (Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo), invitation from Meru Art/Science research programme, Bergamo, Italy
Date: Monday, 7 Oct- Sunday, 20 Oct 2019
A creative investigation into sustainable energy.
This four-day workshop will explore energy-ecologies; how might we re-imagine our relationship with technology and energy systems? Group work with students involving discussion and making will explore these issues. Making our own tools, we will investigate generating our own energy and approach the wider questions of how we might reconsider our relationship with technology in the context of climate change and its associated problems. We will explore the cross-disciplinary relationships between artistic and scientific thinking and how this might be useful for approaching today’s problems of climate crisis. The workshop will combine group discussion and reading texts, experiments with generating electricity (with a focus on re-purposing objects and tools). We will use the electricity we generate to film the process on digital media to present a collaborative video work.
Photo credit: Nick Laessing