Blickfelder Festival
“Screw it. I’m gonna start my own planet”
A participatory art education project by the artist Benjamin Egger in cooperation with the Schütze School, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and the Blickfelder Festival 22
- Venue: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, event room – accessible until 24.6
- Costs: Free admission
- Topic: Art and speculative ecology
- Project management: Tasnim Baghdadi, Cynthia Gavranic (Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst)
- Artist: Benjamin Egger
- School: Two 5th/6th Primary classes at the Schütze school, two kindergarten classes at the Schütze school
If things continue as they are, it doesn't look so good for quite a few species that will soon lose their habitat due to the climate collapse, including humans, of course. A group of children from the Schütze school in Zurich has decided to prepare for this. On a newly founded planet, they create a new ecosystem and new creatures under new living conditions. They are inspired by the animal world, endemic species, dinosaurs, and speculative biology. They sketch and perform newly invented species and build models for the prototype of the new planet, at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst.
Dates:
- June 10: At 5:30 pm, young scientists will report on their studies at the festival center and take you on an excursion to discover this new planet and its species at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst.
- June 23, 6:30 pm: Public guided tour with artist Benjamin Egger