Workshop »Metabolic Futures«

Welcome & Introduction

Where: Akademie Schloss Solitude

Distilled, Emulsified, Suspended: On Viscosity and Time in the Metabolism of Mass Production
Keynote Lecture by Hannah Landecker

The lecture will be held in English.
Where: Akademie Schloss Solitude

Grains of Fragility
Sound Piece by Mert Moralı

Where: Akademie Schloss Solitude

Foodsharing-Dinner

Where: Akademie Schloss Solitude

Pick Your Substance
Investigative Schnippel-Aktion

Have you ever wondered about all the substances in the ingredient lists of daily foods? The workshop at the foodsharing Café Raupe Immersatt invites you to take a closer look at exactly these different materials. We will pick substances from a list of ingredients, prepare food together and get in conversation with invited scientists, who are experts on how food industries work and on the topic of metabolism. While we prepare snacks and eat them, we want to learn together about the cycles of the substances: How and where are they produced? In what way do they influence our bodies? And what are the ecological and social consequences of this production?

The workshop will be held in German and English.
Where: Café Raupe Immersatt

Soundwalk: Listening to Leaks
Urban Sound Walk with Kosmas Phan Ðinh

How can listening become porous – an act of rearranging (inner and outer) space? How are our bodily digestive and fluid systems rhythmically related to the surround? And which sounds have been sidelined to the margins of urban spaces? Via listening exercises, live field recordings and sonic transmissions, the soundwalk with Kosmas Phan Ðinh is an invitation to explore these questions collectively. Along several stations in Stuttgart’s west, such as the amphibious ecology of the Feuersee, you are invited to walk, digest and listen together – while slowly dissolving in the intervals of urban metabolism.

The walk will be held in English.
Where: Meeting point at Café Raupe Immersatt

A communal table gathering with

Planetary Metabolism and Chemical Geography, a lecture by Andrew Barry on the relation between the metabolism of living bodies and global political economy &
Cowborgs in the Polder: True Type, a video presentation by Víctor Muñoz Sanz on the design logic behind contemporary animal breeding to maximize dairy production.

The Metropolis and Metabolic Life, a video presentation by Maan Barua, that draws on a visual ethnography of broiler chickens in India to unravel relations between cities, economies and the urbanization of nature &
Sofreh #1, a video screening by Hanieh Fatouraee of an experimental performance reflecting the uncanny public exhibitory activities where people place excessive bread around the city of Istanbul.

Urban Metabolism Redux, a talk by Matthew Gandy on multispecies metabolic entanglements, on cities and their agricultural hinterlands, and on alternative metabolic readings of urban space &
Invasive Exotic, an artistic investigation by Marco Pando on what would happen if the Bauhaus extended its principles to invasive plants.

The Open Weave I, a video screening by Rehema Chachage in which we encounter cross-legged figures weaving plucked flowers into a long, growing chain. The work is an invitation for us to reconsider how our bodies, gestures, and environments remain entangled, and how, through acts of making and remembering, we might continue to weave futures that acknowledge and honor the past.

The contributions will be held in English.
Where: Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

What You Eat Eats
Roundtable discussion with Giovanni Galizia, Davina Höll, and Hannah Liya, moderated by Stephen Wright

Is reality initially a food? That is, the upshot of past digestions, to be digested in turn, in an endless metabolic loop? The roundtable What You Eat Eats bridges an afternoon of looking with an evening of eating together. A dinner panel seems as good a place as any to follow chemical geographies to the moment of their digestion, the threshold where the body meets the world. To what extent are strictly materialist understandings of the metabolic compatible with the more figurative usages which this gathering invites us to consider? 

The roundtable discussion will be held in English.
Where: Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

Mixed Pickles Dinner
With Claudia Dietz and Juli Gebhardt

Where: Künstlerhaus Stuttgart