The Anthropocene Foundry Kolkata 2024
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
About
the screening program
The Anthropocene Foundry Kolkata 2024 – is consisting of 2 video programs from The Anthropocene Project, including about 500 international artists, created and curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne for The New Museum of Networked Art – dealing with the human impact on nature and the natural living environment manifested in two comprehensive media collections – video art & sound art. For the screening in the framework of TENT Biennale in Kolkata 2024, animated contents from AnimateC’24 (Cologne Art & Animation Festival) and Vacations in the Subconscious (1924-2024 – 100 Years of The Surrealist Manifesto by André Breton) have been selected to point to the human impact in terms of the artistic creation itself. The video artists composing different types of self-created footage, are partially using the latest technology (artificial intelligence) based on a specific subjective view on the Big Creation (our world) forming new types of reality of the world they are living in. They do not only reflect the existing but go far beyond visions of the future, referring to the finiteness of life as well as the infinity of the Creation. By being confronted with, the audience in Kolkata becomes the foundry of a new human existence, at least in the imagination.
2000-2025 // The Foundation Screening Series (Finiteness – Infinity) and the screening in Kolkata are part of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the New Museum of Networked Art on 1 January 2000 and the current foundation process of The Agricola de Cologne Foundation for the Arts which will operate the museum from 2025 onwards.
“The Anthropocene Foundry” celebration programs are presented between 18 December 2024 – 31 March 2025 in Kolkata, Addis Ababa, Los Angeles and simultaneously in Cologne featuring the entire “Anthropocene Project” at different places in different video constellations.
The Anthropocene Foundry Kolkata 2024
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Click to view the videoScreening program 1
AnimateC’24
Videos by
Edward Ramsay-Morin (USA) – Up and Away, 2024, 05:19
Izabella Retkowska (Poland) – Anamnesis, 2023, 1:00
Maria Korporal (NL) – Diaspora, 2023, 5:57
Shon Kim (S.Korea) – BOOKANIMA: Andy Warhol, 2020, 4:58
Sarah Buckius (USA) – technoloffspring v.1, 2024, 2:53
Sandrine Deumier (France) – From the place where the light goes out, 2023, 5:45
Nonoho Suzuki (Japan) – ABURIDASHI Assortment: Video Letters written in invisible ink, 2022, 09:24
Ausin Sainz (Spain) – Tourist, 2024, 6:00
Coalfather Industries (USA) – Fracture, 2020, 2:53
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Looking Glass, 2023, 7:00
Silliam Bims (USA) – To Speak Through You and You Through Me (Spoken Through), 2020, 11:22
Click to view the videoScreening program 2
Vacations in the Subconscious (Surrealist Vacation Resort Kolkata 2024)
Videos by
Peter Whittenberger (USA) – All Possible Futures, 2019, 3:51
Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy) – Pietas for you, 2023, 3:55
Albert Merino (Spain) -The Present Condition, 2020, 18:10
Brit Bunkley (New Zealand) – Natural Intelligence, 2024, 7:23
Laura & Sira Cabrera (Spain) – Hole – Agujero, 2024, 09:26
Thomas Vallianatos (Greece) – Athens-the present that didn’t exist, 2023, 3:51
Claudia Krogmeier (France) – How to Social (2023), 5:50
Pascal RENAULT (France) – Basalt, 2023, 14:00
