Tomorrow 14:15-15:00 Toke Lykkeberg, director of Tranen, will moderate a talk at the People’s meeting in Gentofte. The topic is Cultural Preparedness in times of crisis. Artist
@stine_deja revisits Tranen and Gentofte Main Library with her inflatable sculptures, Last Survivors, which she made for
@bloom.festival earlier this year.
She’s accompanied by writer
@idamarierendtorff and professor
@mikkelvedby
About the talk:
“We can build dykes, draw up evacuation plans and prepare for the worst. But can we also prepare ourselves spiritually and culturally for scenarios where the threat picture becomes complex and our world and reality crumble?
Toke Lykkeberg, head of Tranen, invites you to a conversation about the ongoing debate on so-called “cultural preparedness”. Among the guests is Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, professor of political science and expert in geopolitics. In his book Krisesamfundet (The Crisis Society), written in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, he discusses societies such as ours, where crisis is no longer the exception but the rule. At the turn of the year, he suggested on the radio programme Genstart that science fiction is sometimes a better guide to the world of today and tomorrow than university textbooks.
He is joined on the panel by two artists, both of whom outline scenarios for the near and distant future. Ida-Marie Rendtorff is an author, literary scholar, former primary school teacher and known for her fantastic and dystopian stories for children and young people. One of her major works is the trilogy Kloden under vand (The Planet Under Water), published in 2012-14, which is becoming increasingly relevant. Stine Deja is a visual artist who created the exhibition Cold Sleep about biotechnological immortality in 2021 at Tranen. She is currently exhibiting at Gentofte Folkemøde with her gigantic work Last Survivors, which is based on Chinese researchers’ work to create resilient hybrid creatures by crossing human and tardigrade DNA.”
More info in Danish:
https://folkemoede.gentofte.dk/program/kulturelt-beredskab-mere-end-vand-og-batterier/
#tranen #stinedeja #lastsurvivors #idamarierendtorff #klodenundervand #mikkelvedby #krisesamfundet
