On Becoming Earthlings

Initiated in 2015 in the frame of the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21), On Becoming Earthlings explores the attempts of humans to represent the different scales of environmental crises.

In 2015, Council organised the 18th edition and the first Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge in France, at the Musée de L’Homme. For a duration of four hours, 75 experts from different disciplines were gathered to exchange with members of the audience for a 30 minute conversation. Each of them gave a different account on how to live and think the Anthropocene. 1

In 2019, Council commissioned the film North of The Mountain by Zhou Tao Zhou Tao, for which the artist spent nearly two years building a repertoire of image in an eco-industrial park at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains. 2

In 2020, Council curated the exhibition Shoreline Movements  as part of the Taipei Biennial 2020. 3

On Becoming Earthlings is a project by Council.

 

INITIATED ON THE OCCASION OF

Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21)

SUPPORTED BY

The Nina and Daniel Carasso Foundation

Top image: Zhou Tao, North of the Mountain, 2019, film still.

1. ‘Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge: On Becoming Earthlings’, an event on how to think and live the Anthropocene, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, 2015, ph. Alexis Vettoretti.
2. ‘North of the Mountain’ by Zhou Tao, co-produced by Council, premiered at the artist’s solo-show at Times Museum, 2019, ph. Times Museum.
3. ‘Shoreline Movements’, a program of non-fiction films curated by Erika Balsom and Grégory Castéra, in a space designed by Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, for the Taipei Biennial 2020, ph.Thao Nguyen Phan, Becoming Alluvium, 2019, film still. Courtesy of the artist.

On Becoming Earthlings

5.
Shoreline Movements, Taipei Biennial, 2020
Exhibition

4.
Zhou Tao, North of the Mountain, 2019
New Work

3.
On the Collaborative Creation of Artists Films and Videos, Loop Barcelona, 2018
Talk

2.
On Becoming Earthling, Dhaka Art Summit, 2014
Workshop

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Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge #18, 2015
Program