Program: 2017

Snow and Desert

Zuoz/Engadin, 28. & 29. January 2017

E.A.T. / Engadin Art Talks

Subhankar Banerjee, Julian Charrière, Manuel Herz, Francis Kéré, Christine Levy, Heinz Mack, Eileen Myles, Emily Scott, Hito Steyerl, Oscar Tuazon, Not Vital, Rüdiger Wehner

Videos

2017 E.A.T. Zuoz: SNOW & DESERT Subhankar Banerjee: Flat white nothingness: politics of color, ecology and justice in the Far North

E.A.T. 2017 SNOW & DESERT / Weaving the Nation. The Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara

E.A.T. 2017 SNOW & DESERT / Build to inspire

E.A.T. 2017 SNOW & DESERT / Protector Architecture

E.A.T. 2017 SNOW & DESERT / ArDEZ — AgaDEZ

E.A.T. 2017 SNOW & DESERT / Who can say

Intro

Whether in the context of glittering winter landscapes, perilous polar deserts or inviting ski slopes, snow fascinates and attracts people. But snow means much more than this. Without snow we would have no water reservoirs in the mountains, no thermal insulation for the permafrost, no protection for fauna and flora, and no ice feedback to the atmosphere. Snow is protection and threat, climate memory and environmental agent, a place of extremes and poetry. We associate desert with sand, and the snow desert with the sand desert as a vast uninhabitable expanse where feelings of impotence and forsakenness prevail, and humans are thrown back on their own resources.

Hence the E.A.T. participants discussed and philosophised about visions, ideas, designs and projects that have been either created for the snow landscapes or dreamed up in the desert landscapes.

The panels were chaired by Daniel Baumann (Director of the Kunsthalle Zürich), Bice Curiger (Artistic Director Fondation Van Gogh Arles), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Artistic Director at the Serpentine Galleries in London) and Philip Ursprung (Professor gta/ETH Zürich). The audience has been welcomed by Laurence Badilatti, vice mayor of he city of Zuoz, and Cristina Bechtler, founder E.A.T..