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The Temple of Science

November 4 - 10, 2024 - Window Exhibition "The Temple of Science"

 

In cooperation with Kunsthalle Giessen

Download the detailed program in PDF form here.

 

The event is realized under consideration of JLU’s guidelines for more sustainable event management.

Visit Aisling O'Carroll's website to gain further insights to the exhibition and the accompanying Archiving Giessen project of Charlotte Wrigley.

 

Program Location Participation

Opening: November 4, 2024, 6 pm

Kunsthalle Giessen, Berliner Platz 1, 35390 Giessen

 

Free entry

Film & Artist Talk: November 5, 2024, 6:30 pm 

Film screening: Last Things (Deborah Stratman, 2023)

Talk with: Aisling O‘Carroll & Lukáš Likavčan

Kinocenter Giessen, Bahnhofstrasse 34, 35390 Giessen

Free entry

 

Window Exhibition

...The Temple of Science

The window exhibition The Temple of Science presents an investigation of the entwined geological, glaciological, and human histories of the Unteraar glacier through a reconstruction of the Hôtel des Neuchâtelois. The exhibition is realized as a collaboration between Kunsthalle Giessen and the Panel on Planetary Thinking. The installation continues the INSIDEOUT exhibition series in the window of the Kunsthalle. The work showcases the results of Aisling O’Carroll’s fellowship within this year’s focus on ‘Planetary Times’ in the Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence Program (2022-2025). 

 

...Complementary movie screening: Last Things (Deborah Stratman, 2023)

November 5, 2024 | 6:30 pm | Kinocenter Giessen 

Last Things looks at evolution and extinction from the perspective of the rocks and minerals that came before humanity and will outlast us. With scientists and thinkers like Lynn Margulis and Marcia Bjørnerud as guides and quoting from the proto-Sci-fi texts of J.H. Rosny, Deborah Stratman offers a stunning array of images, from microscopic forms to vast landscapes, and seeks a picture of evolution without humans at the center.

Welcome address: Theresa Deichert (Assistant Curator, Kunsthalle Giessen)

Artist & film talk: Aisling O’Carroll 

in conversation with: Lukáš Likavčan & Liza B. Bauer

For more information, visit Kinocenter website.

 

...Artist

Aisling O'Carroll (Fellow in the Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence Program 2024) is a designer, researcher, and landscape architect. Her work uses experimental methods to reconstruct landscape histories from diverse material archives, including drawings, photographs, written accounts, geological records, and botanical material. These reconstructions aim to reconsider dominant models of environmental knowledge and our present relations with land in order to enable more inclusive, just, and diverse approaches in the future. She is a Lecturer at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where she is currently completing her PhD in Architectural Design.