BRACHA L. ETTINGER: Lecture and painting HD

WHERE ARE WE GOING, WALT WHITMAN? An ecosophical roadmap for artists and other futurists Conference -- festival that took place from 12--15 March, 2013 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Gabriëlle Schleijpen, head of Studium Generale Rietveld Academie invited Anselm Franke, Binna Choi, Carolyn Christof - Bakargiev, Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl to each inaugurate a discursive and performative program of one day. Wednesday March 13: JAPAN SYNDROME — AMSTERDAM VERSION brought together anarcho-urbanist, feminist psychoanalytic, cinematic, sci-fi, self-organizing, archival, and electro musical perspectives into disasters that can no longer be categorized as either "natural" or "man-made." Meshing discursive moments with mourning rituals and visions of possible futures, it attempted to open up a new imaginary landscape of the commons. Post-Fukushima Japan now calls for our response to the invisible and immeasurable aftermath of the earthquake and following nuclear meltdown. Curator Binna Choi invited artist Ei Awakara, artist, psychoanalyst and theorist Bracha Ettinger, volunteers at Hope Step Japan, social critic, scholar, translator and activist, Sabu Kohso, National Nuclear Energy Archive - Laka Foundation, artist collective The Otolith Group, musician and composer Stefan Tcherepnin & artist and chef Hanna Törnudd, mobile platform Green Tea Gallery and independent curator and researcher Miya Yoshida. http://wherearewegoingwaltwhitman.rietveldacademie.nl/ http://gerritrietveldacademie.nl/en/