Elena Agudio: Introduction I Limits of Perception Lab_00

Описание: On the evening of the summer solstice, Ivana Franke and the curators of the LIMITS OF PERCEPTION LAB gather in the artist’s studio to connect with thinkers, scientists, philosophers of mind, and artists spaced at different latitudes and time frames to ponder the limits of our perception and navigate us into the extra dimensions of spacetime. On the longest and most luminous day of the year, under different skies and across disciplinary boundaries, artist Monica Narula (Raqs Media Collective), physicist Lisa Randall, philosopher of mind Sangeetha Menon, historian of science Juan-Andres Leon, shaman Taita Juan Martín Jamioy Juajibio, neuroscientist Ida Momennejad, curator Sunčica Ostojić, and artists Tomas Saraceno and Elisabeth Tambwe will deliberate with Ivana Franke, Arlette Ndakoze, Elena Agudio, Kelly Krugman and Israel Lopez on the possibility of thinking beyond the pervasive but quite possibly mistaken assumption that we live in a three-dimensional world. In an online performative and extra-disciplinary conversation, the participants will grapple with the possibility of cracking with some of our preconceived ideas of reality, lending it other dimensions that are decidedly of the otherwise, imaginary, and cosmic, and with SAVVY Contemporary’s investigation on the role of science in modern societies and its pretensions to objectivity, rationality, and universal truth.

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Elena Agudio is the director of Villa Romana in Florence. She is an art historian and a curator whose practice is concerned with issues of decanonisation, migration and diasporic belonging, ecological and planetary habitability, and the creation of sustainable infrastructures for and with vulnerable communities. She is in particular interested in exploring the potential of curatorial practices as forms of troubling, with a focus on their performative and relational aspects.
Between 2013 and 2023 she served as artistic co-director at SAVVY Contemporary – The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, alongside its founder and director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. Since 2012, she has been also artistic director of the non-profit association Association of Neuroesthetics (AoN)_Platform for Art and Neuroscience, a project in collaboration with the Medical University of Charité and The School of Mind and Brain of the Humboldt University encouraging both a dialogue and lasting cooperation between contemporary art and the cognitive sciences.
She writes and teaches, and since 2017 she has been lecturing at the Weißensee School of Art in Berlin - at *foundationClass, in the Foundation Courses, and from 2020 at the Master Degree in Spatial Strategies (Raumstrategien). In 2017 and 2018 she was Guestprofessor at HFBK (Kunsthochschule für Bildende Künste) in Hamburg and Resident Fellow at Helsinki University of the Arts.