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.
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
