If the goal of storytelling is to understand the world, we look at how current narrative modes, as derived from the bourgeois novel and solidified through the feature film, hide more about the contemporary environment than they reveal. Rather than view stories as authored by individuals, we will look to energy consumption as the precondition for all stories.

Beny Wagner is an artist and writer. Working in moving image, text, installation and lectures, he moves between research and speculation to form non-linear narratives. Wagner investigates the many modes of mediation between the self and its surroundings whether through ecology, technology, material and virtual space. A recurring preoccupation in his work involves the mediation of sight, looking specifically at how language, matter and technology give shape to sight and the boundaries of consciousness.

Sasha Litvintseva is an artist, filmmaker and curator. Her films and research are situated on the intersection of geological, embodied, and historical temporalities and materialities. Her current PhD research, proposing the concept of geological filmmaking, considers the depiction of environments, the mediation of the invisible, and the meeting point between embodied time and deep time, in the context of the Anthropocene.

The event is a part of the Heroic vs. Holistic exhibition.

Suggested admission 30 CZK