Online Talk with Almagul Menlibayeva in Conjunction with the Exhibition "Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories"

• Thu, 10/01/2020, 5 p.m.: Almagul Menlibayeva in conversation with Suad Garayeva-Maleki, former artistic director, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, and co-curator of the exhibition

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• In English
• A cooperation of the Department of Fine Arts of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and the Department of Fine Arts of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) have organized a three-day series of conversations that will probe the interactions between humans and nature from theoretical and artistic perspectives. Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories is the first of two exhibitions that explore the current state of the relationship between humanity and nature. The works on view in the first chapter draw attention to the ways in which the environment has been appropriated in the pursuit of power and resources. They point up the consequences for the environment as well as the social fabric and question conceptions in the natural sciences that were developed in the course of the power-driven appropriation of nature.

Almagul Menlibayeva (b. Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1969) makes work that grapples with the social, economic, and political changes in post-Soviet Central Asia, as reflected in ideas about sex and gender, environmental devastation, and nomadic cosmologies and mythologies. In her video installation Astana. Departure (2015–20) (currently on view at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst), she reflects on visions of the future and speculates about a planet that is no longer livable.

More talks:

• Tue, 09/29/2020, 5 p.m.: T.J. Demos in conversation with Annemarie Bucher, lecturer (ZHdK), landscape historian, Zurich

• Wed, 09/30/2020, 5 p.m.: Maria Thereza Alves in conversation with Heike Munder, director and co-curator of the exhibition, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich