2017: SNOW AND DESERT

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.

During the 2017 edition of the E.A.T. forum, the 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. 

Curated by Daniel Baumann, Bice Curiger, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Philip Ursprung.

Programme

Saturday, January 28

10:00 - 10:15

WELCOME

Laurence Badilatti
Christine Bechtler
Daniel Baumann



10:30 - 11:00

WEAVING THE NATION: THE REFUGEE CAMPS OF THE WESTERN SAHARA

Manuel Herz


11:00 - 11:30

FLAT WHITE NOTHINGNESS: POLITICS OF COLOR, ECOLOGY AND JUSTICE IN THE FAR NORTH

Subhankar Banerjee


12:00 - 12:30

THE SAHARA PROJECT

Heinz Mack


12:30 - 13:00

THE BALLAD OF SNOW & THE DESERT

Eileen Myles


15:00 - 15:30

BUILD TO INSPIRE

Francis Kéré


15:30 - 16:00

GLACIERS IN A WARMER ATMOSPHERE: ABOUT HOLES, DEAD ICE AND STUPAS

Christine Levy


16:00 - 16:3

WHO CAN SAY

Hito Steyerl


17:00 - 17:30

PROTECTOR ARCHITECTURE

Oscar Tuazon


17:30 - 18:00

FIELDWORK AT THE END OF GEOGRAPHY

Julian Charrière

17:30 - 18:00

EXHIBITION VISIT

Sunday, January 29

10:30 - 11:00

ANT ON A HOT SAND ROOF

Rüdiger Wehner


11:00 - 11:30

ARDEZ – AGADEZ

Not Vital


11:30 - 12:00

THE DESERT IN FINE GRAIN

Emily Scott

13:00 - 14:30

EXHIBITION VISIT

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