In this session, Miranda and Urs will share their research on wild electricity, or electricity-producing phenomena which have evaded domestication by the capitalist, patriarchal and colonial-driven industrial revolution. Investigating the field of Energy Harvesting from an holistic perspective, they will unfurl their practice of kitsch kitchen bioelectrochemistry, which aims to agitate knowledge hierarchies and shift collective energy imaginaries. In this masterclass, we will explore hands-on, tastebuds-in experiments together, and see how it feels to situate ourselves as Energy Custodians, tending to the diverse and intertwingled forces we live amongst, while investigating the possibilities of alternate electro-futures based on compassion, tenderness and care, instead of extraction and exploitation. Also, it will be delicious.
Miranda Moss is an artist, researcher and educator from Cape Town, South Africa. Her undisciplined practice, which focuses on the problematics and hopeful possibilities of technology from a socio-ecological and anticolonial feminist perspective, has seen her exhibit, teach and perform research across the globe in various art, science, community, academic, public and hacker spaces. For the last 2 years, she has been deeply immersed in the research project Regenerative Energy Communities; creative and collective energy experiments for resilient agriculture, alongside Helen V. Pritchard, Daniel Gustafsson and Eric Snodgrass, and funded by the Swedish Energy Agency.
Urs Gaudenz is an engineer and interdisciplinary scholar working in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a founding member of Hackteria International Society, and is the founder of GaudiLabs, a third space for third culture. Gaudenz makes use of various forms of work and expression such as prototype development, open scientific research and collaborative workshops, combining his different backgrounds to explore new technological and cultural fields.
Lead:
Miranda Moss & Urs Gaudenz
When?
November 11th, 2023
2:00 to 3:30 pm
Where?
4.T30 (level 4)
Toni-Areal
Zurich University of the Arts
Websites:
mirandamoss.com
gaudi.ch
regenerative-energy-communities.org
mechatronicart.ch
hackteria.org
Ticket:
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