The Great-Defrost

A One-Day-Symposium that Bridges Global Perspectives

Venue: Auditorium of the Felleshus, Nordic Embassies Berlin, Rauchstraße 1, 10787 Berlin
Date: 13th of September 2024
Curator: Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir
Moderator: Julieta Aranda
Program:

9:00
Nordic Embassies opens

11:00–11:15
Welcome
by moderator Julieta Aranda, curator Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir

11:15–12:10
Thinking through and with the Atlantic puffin  
Speaker: Katla Kjartansdóttir  
Respondent: Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam

12:30–13:30
Golden Myths: From ‘El Dorado’ to the Floating Factories
Speaker: Anamáría Garzón Mantilla  
Respondent: Marina Fokidis

13:30–14:30  
Break

14:30–15:30
Who Wants to be Boring? Art, Ecology, and Arctic Living Beyond the Image
Keynote: Elisabeth Brun
Respondent: Dehlia Hannah

16:00–17:00 
Presenting Rise of the Sunken Sun
Artist Talk: Inuuteq Storch
Introduction about his current exhibition in the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

17:00–18:30
Closing Reception