June 22, 2024
12:45- 18:00
Location: Departure from station 5113 Holderbank
RSVP: welcome@weareaia.art
More information:
bring a bag, a sandwich or some picnic with water, some tools (screwdriver, small hammer or the like), old newspapers, short distance from the station, casual hiking gear is fine
with the support of the Archipelago
research project, co-funded by the Synergies program of Pro Helvetia
On this walk we will go fossil hunting in the outskirts of Zürich. Building on a retreat based on new narratives / ancient strata 2023, the workshop organised by Roland Fischer together with the Walking Festival of Sound (Jacek Smolicki & Tim Shaw) will bring participants to fossil sites to reflect on traces of the past and deep geological timescales - and what past worlds might have sounded like. Revolving around local fossils and temporal narratives, the field trip aims to develop alternative perspectives on human local history, particularly in relation to geology. With a particular focus on the interactions between organic and inorganic matter, or how living things have always been intertwined with the mineral world, sometimes magnificently, sometimes catastrophically.
Roland Fischer is an exhibition curator and science writer who lives and works in Basel and Courfaivre (JU). He studied interdisciplinary natural sciences at ETH Zürich. A festival director, blogger, lecturer and activist for art as research, he is behind various initiatives at the intersection of art and science, and is the founder of symbiont.space in Basel (since 2021).
Schedule:
12:45- Meeting point Bahnhof Holderbank (AG)
13:30- Reaching the site, picnic and discussion
14:00- Collective fossil hunt
17:30- Departure to Zurich
Symbiont.Space
https://symbiont.space
long-termism --- ideologies devoid of utopias --- evolution of narratives --- deep time and the gaia theory --- history of geology, catastrophism/collapsology and our recurrent longing for the crash --- violating landscapes to access deep levels of time --- folk tales (non scientific explanations) of fossils --- reading landscapes as archives --- looking back/looking ahead: archives as treasure troves of possible futures --- rooted speculations
Photo: Karl Nicolas Lang
