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e LONG TERM you caot aÿord. on e distribuon of e TOXIC INVOCATIONS .– WITH Edna Bonhomme BPoC Environmenta and Cimate Justice Coective (Imeh Ituen and Rebecca Abena Kennedy-Asante) Center for Intersectiona Justice (Emiia Roig) Yoanda Ariadne Coins Discard Studies (Aex Zahara and Josh Lepawsky) Angea Fournoy The Forest Curricuum (Pujita Guha and Abhijan Toto) Hazardous Traves (Ayushi Dhawan, Maximiian Feichtner and Simone Müer) Hyoung-Min Kim and Gabrie Gaindez Cruz Jessika Khazrik Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecoogy (Ida Bencke) Latedjou Liping Ting Mother the Verb (Ivan “Ivy” Monteiro) Franziska Pierwoss Raqs Media Coective (Shuddhabrata Sengupta) Matana Roberts Huda Rós Guðnadóttir Tomás Saraceno and the Aerocene Foundation Aexis Shotwe Stephan Thierbach Françoise Vergès Wearebornfree! Empowerment Radio (Moro Yapha) XR Extinction Rebeion (Kate Sagovsky) among others CURATORS Antonia Aampi Caroine Ektander CO¨CURATORS Jasmina A-Qaisi Kamia Metway ARTISTIS DIRECTOR Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung PROJECT TEAM Monioa Iupeju António Pedro Mendes Oa Zieińska CURATORIAL ASSISTANT Mahnoor Zehra Lodhi MANAGEMENT Lema Sikod Lynhan Baatbat-Hebock COMMUNICATION Anna Jäger GRAPHIC DESIGN Esa Westreicher Lii Somogyi SOUND ENGINEER Kay Bennet Kruthoff LIVE STREAM Boiing Head The project is funded by Hauptstadtkuturfonds and the Foundation for Arts Initiatives. With additiona support by the Mondriaan Fund, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueer Bhavan Kokata, Goethe Institut Pakistan, White Space Beijing, The Visua Arts Fund Iceand, DAAD Artists-in-Berin Program and the Berin Senate Department for Cuture and Europe. SAVVY Contemporary T Laboratory of Form-Ideas THE LONG TERM YOU CANNOT AFFORD. ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE TOXIC is the third chapter of SCHEDULE our ong-term investigation THE INVENTION OF SCIENCE. This exhibition is part of Toxic Commons initiated by AT SAVVYContemporary AT Kuppehae, sient green Kuturquartier Caroine Ektander, Antonia Aampi and SAVVY Contemporary, Simone Müer with a research group TO LIVE WITH TOXICITY IS A EVERYWHERE'S A HERE, ISN'T IT? from the Rache Carson Center with Ayushi Dhawan, CONDITION OF LIFE is a fu day of A day that wi spi into the night with performances, Maximiian Feichtner, and Jonas Stuck. Extra City workshops, round-tabe discussions and performances taks, concerts and durationa acts with sois and winds, Kunstha has supported the first reiteration of this within the SAVVY .doc aimed at coectivey asking us to pause, isten and sense the kaeidoscopic research. imagining and accessing the range of actions needed to dimensions of the toxic. come to grips with the unreenting spread of the toxic. THE INVENTION OF SCIENCE ±²–´² Aerocene Community Weather- and a its connected chapters are funded by ² WORKSHOP Josh Lepawsky (Discard Dependent Foat AEROSOLAR SCULPTURES Hauptstadtkuturfonds and the Foundation for Arts Studies) Toxicity, Knowabiity, Accountabiity AND MUSEO AERO SOLAR Initiatives. [Exact timing wi depend on the weather conditions, We are gratefu for this support as we as the ±² LUNCH pease ook out of the window in search of the sun and additiona funding for THE LONG TERM venture out to fee the strength of the breeze (we wi YOU CANNOT AFFORD. ON THE ³² PANEL DISCUSSION I need heat and ow winds to make this happen) or foow DISTRIBUTION OF THE TOXIC: Ayushi Dhawan and Maximiian Feichtner (Hazardous our FB page for ive updates.] Jonas Staa’s new commission Redistribute toxicity Traves), Jessika Khazrik, Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Raqs has been made possibe through financia support Media Coective) and Franziska Pierwoss On Trade- º²–² PERFORMANCE Stephan R. from the Mondriaan Fund. He Xiangyu’s contribution Offs, Maintenance and Redistribution of the Toxic Tierbach Der Schweiß der Erde has been generousy supported by White Space Beijing. Abhijan Toto’s participation in the invocations ´²± LECTURE & EATING ´² WELCOME & INTRODUCTION program is generousy supported by the Goethe- Aexis Shotwe with Jasmina A-Qaisi What Might it Antonia Aampi and Caroine Ektander Institut / Max Mueer Bhavan Kokata. Hira Nabi’s Mean to say That Food is a Reationship? participation is generousy supported by the Goethe ´²´ LECTURE Simone Müer Hidden Institut Pakistan. Hyoung-Min Kim and Gabrie Gaindez ¯²± PANEL DISCUSSION II Externaities. On the Gobaization of Hazardous Waste Cruz's performance I AM NOT ON THE Imeh Ituen and Rebecca Abena Kennedy-Asante BLACKLIST is presented together with Tanzfabrik (BPoC Environmenta and Cimate Justice Coective), ´²´ LECTURE Yoanda Adriane Coins Berin in the frame of OPEN SPACES and is Moro Yapha (Wearebornfree! Empowerment Radio), Coonia Residue kindy supported by the Berin Senate Department for Kate Sagovsky (XR Extinction Rebeion), Emiia Roig Cuture and Europe. The work of Huda Rós Guðnadóttir (Center for Intersectiona Justice) Against the Toxic: ¯²´ PERFORMANCE READING has been generousy sponsored by The Visua Arts Fund Acts of Disobedience, Interdependence and Vunerabiity Ida Bencke (LAE) Soft Openings and Transcor-poreaity: Iceand. The performance of Matana Roberts has been Caring for Encounters generousy supported by the DAAD Artists-in-Berin ² BREAK Program. ¯²±´ PERFORMANCE Liping Ting ² PERFORMANCE Hyoung-Min Kim and Licht Leuchten III Gabrie Gaindez Cruz I am not on the Backist º² LECTURE Aex Zahara What is Containment? ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION º²³´ READING Angea Fournoy For wheechair accessibiity, pease ca Domesticated Paradise: Cimate and Community in ±–´´¯± for the eevator Southern Caiforna The venue is immediatey wheechair accessibe through a ramp ² ARTIST TALK Tomás Saraceno with Antonia Aampi Barrier-free access with pubic transport (via S Wedding) ² MULTI¨MEDIA PERFORMANCE Parking pace (x) for the disabed Huda Rós Guðnadóttir Ocean Gory Guide dogs aowed ² PERFORMANCE [in the SAVVY.doc] If you have any requests or questions about accessibiity Hyoung-Min Kim and Gabrie Gaindez Cruz on both days, pease contact us one day in advance I am not on the Backist of the event on: communications @ SAVVY- contemporary.com or ±–´´¯±. ®¯ SAVVYContemporary: The Laboratory of Form Ideas The Long Term You Cannot Afford. On the Distribution of the Toxic Invocations .– SAVVYContemporary: The Laboratory of Form Ideas The Long Term You Cannot Afford. On the Distribution of the Toxic Invocations .– ± ®¯ ²±´ PERFORMANCE READING Ida Bencke (LAE) Soft Openings and Transcorpo reaity: Caring for Encounters CONCEPT ²³´ LECTURE Françoise Vergès When Breathing is a Revoutionary Act “They were sow changes compared to anything and propagation of the toxic, but aso consider non- that might happen here, but it took a pague vioent forms of redistribution of its painfuy unequa ² CONCERT Latedjou Língua Livre to make some of the peope reaize that things presence. coud change.” ²´´ PERFORMANCE LECTURE How can we form interdependent networks of Raqs Media Coective The Toxicity of Measure “So?” disobedience that exhort to fight against the vicious machinations that have ed to this current state of ²± BREAK “Things are changing now, too. Our aduts haven't affairs, and that can hep us escape the deporabe been wiped out by a pague so they’re sti conditions they keep (re)producing; from sma everyday ²´´ CONCERT Matana Roberts Untited no. anchored in the past, waiting for the good od actions to spectacuar mobiizations, from swift days to come back. But things have changed a responses to strategic and sustained engagement? ² PERFORMANCE LECTURE ot, and they’ change more. Things are aways And how can we ensure that these actions stem Edna Bonhomme The Afterives of Chronic Toxicity changing. This is just one of the big jumps instead from a position of istening and care rather than non- of the itte step-by-step changes that are easier egaitarian codependency and reactive sympathy? ²´´ PERFORMANCE to take. Peope have changed the cimate of the Ivan ‘Ivy’ Monteiro Mother The Verb word. Now they’re waiting for the od days to The concentration of our coective effort is neither to come back.” pick apart and sort into commonsensibe categories, ±²± LECTURE Pujita Guha and Abhijan nor is it to demonize, point fingers, or catayze an Toto (The Forest Curricuum) Against Apocaypse Octavia Buter: Parabes of the Sower, ± indigestibe sense of parayzing guit about the state of the word. Rather, our aim is to open up space for an ²´ PERFORMANCE Jessika Khazrik THE LONG TERM YOU CAN NOT artistic and critica registry that encourages us to pause Mount Mound Refuse AFFORD. ON THE DISTRIBUTION and sense the toxic presences and textures otherwise, OF THE TOXIC addresses environmenta to acknowedge and mourn its ongoing victims, and to injustices through the ens of the toxic and the discri- isten to the movement of its shadows. In so doing, we mination surrounding its production and circuation, hope to shift sensibiities away from one of paranoid a deepy rooted in historica structures. The project’s containment and fear, to an outook fueed by refexivity INVOCATIONS program brings together artists, writers, and nuance, and to nurture the act of noticing how academics, activists, fimmakers and musicians from actions on the most intimate scae are cosey tied to in and beyond Berin, who a in their own way, work on, the goba – as everywhere is utimatey a here. around, with and against the toxic. The toxic trade-off inherent in expoitative and abusive processes of extraction, production, and disposa ies at the heart of the changing nature of the ecosystems to which we now beong – with miions of metric tons of synthetic materias, pesticides, heavy metas,