Guest: Frédérique Aït-Touati, Anna Greenspan, Iris Long, and Victor Wright (moderator)
Date: Wednesday, 28 August 2024
Time: 19:00–21:15
Location: NYU Shanghai, Room EB116
As part of the “Creative Futures” initiative at the Berggruen Research Center at Peking University, The Larva of Time exhibition explores the contextual resonances between artistic practices and scientific processes, reflecting on how (human or non-human) individuals can survive on this planet. As a special event of the exhibition, Moving Earths, a project initiated by Bruno Latour and Frédérique Aït-Touati, is presented as a screening and panel discussion, to give further responses to the exhibition’s overall theme.
This project is the second in a trilogy of lecture-performances by Bruno Latour and Frédérique Aït-Touati called the Terrestrial Trilogy. For over ten years, they worked together to create projects at the intersection of research and theater, exploring stage writing and questioning scientific and ecological imaginaries. On the occasion of the first tour in China of the Terrestrial Trilogy (beginning in Beijing on August 24 and 25), Frédérique Aït-Touati will be present for a post-screening discussion with Anna Greenspan and Iris Long, moderated by Victor Wright.
Moving Earths screening and conversation is co-presented by Body On&On in Beijing, the Berggruen Research Center at Peking University, and the ICA at NYU Shanghai. The screening and conversation of the play Moving Earths in Shanghai, presented as part of the special program for the 60th anniversary of China-France diplomatic relations and the Festival Croisements, was supported by the Embassy of France in China and the School of Politics and International Relations at East China Normal University.
In conjunction with The Larva of Time, an exhibition with BAI Shunong, GUO Cheng, ZHANG Wei, and ZHANG Wenxin, curated by Iris Long.