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Montag Modus Klimata Online KLIMATA A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TOWARDS RADICAL CHANGE After the Anthropocene, an age evoked by irresponsible human activ- ities, will follow the Chthulucene, a time characterized by fear and the fact that we are all together in trouble. Over the past few centuries, the sphere of existential and legal rights has radically broadened. We have developed practices, we have accomplished important results and we have suffered incredible shortfalls. In order to survive, we need to take responsibility for the collective and find ways to represent something other than just ourselves. We have to rephrase our mutual understandings, rethink our civic duties and re- formulate our definitions of political life. There should be a ‘natural con- tract’, which, as defined by Michel Serres, is a collective understanding that would, in countering the damages caused by humanity, protect not only humans, but the wider world we want to and have to live in. It is therefore crucial to acknowledge that we, in our current system of po- litical power, are responsible for giving a voice to the other. To bring this understanding into practice, we call upon securing equal representation for other entities, even entities without language, enti- ties without bodies and non-organic entities. We call upon this natu- ral contract to include not only our species but all earthlings, some of which we know and some of which we don’t, along with non-living sub- jects, ideas and notions we cherish. This is – and we must understand that – about us, about you, and about all the others. Dániel Kovács Jasna Layes Vinovrški Léna Szirmay-Kalos KLIMATA This booklet offers an insight into the year-long Klimata project of the Berlin-based interdisciplinary event series Montag Modus in 2019. Klimata, composed of five events, was initiated to give a thematic com- pass for participating artists and curators under the broad thematic umbrella term of ‘climates’. The booklet aims at both documenting and guiding you through the events, representing all the projects in the series and giving an insight into the background mechanisms of Montag Modus. Montag Modus Klimata was organized by the MMpraxis curatorial plat- form in collaboration with Collegium Hungaricum Berlin. LINK TO THE TRAILER LINK TO THE VIDEO CURATORIAL INTRODUCTION JASNA L. VINOVRŠKI 13 LÉNA SZIRMAY-KALOS DÁNIEL KOVÁCS MONTAG MODUS KLIMATA – THE CURATORS’ INTRODUCTION MÁRTA NAGY 16 PARTICULARITY OF SPACE AND TIME KIRSTEN MAAR AGGREGATES OF BEING TOGETHER 18 LOCATION COLLEGIUM HUNGARICUM BERLIN 22 FLUTGRABEN BERLIN CHAPTER ONE THE GIANT ARRIVED 24 MARTINA RUHSAM EXERCISES IN RECONFIGURING #1 26 CLÉMENT LAYES / PUBLIC IN PRIVATE 30 STUDY FOR KLIMATA: POLLUTION GRYLLUS-TÓTH-VADAS: 32 NIBIRU 0.2 – ENVIRONMENT MIRIAM JAKOB: 34 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS ANA LAURA LOZZA & BÁRBARA HANG 36 CONSUMATION TIME AND SPACE TABLE 38 CHAPTER TWO THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU 40 SIEGMAR ZACHARIAS 42 DROOLING LECTURE JULIAN WEBER 46 EXTRA MAYA WEINBERG 48 HOMONIMI BODYLOTION CO-DANCE 50 FEAR NO MORE TIME AND SPACE TABLE 52 CHAPTER THREE WE SOLEMNLY SWEAR 54 ANNA ZILAHI / XTRO REALM 56 EXTRODÆSIA MANIFESTO XTRO REALM 58 EXTRODÆSIA: ENCYCLOPEDIA TOWARDS A POST-ANTHROPOCENTRIC WORLD IGOR AND IVAN BUHAROV 60 DIET JÁNOS BRÜCKNER 62 IT’S EASY FOR YOU ZEINA HANNA 64 UNDER_COVER AYŞE ORHON, CHRISTINA CIUPKE, 66 CLÉMENT LAYES, IGOR DOBRIČIĆ, JASNA L. VINOVRŠKI AND LITÓ WALKEY ONLY A PART, NOT THE WHOLE TIME AND SPACE TABLE 68 CHAPTER FOUR TOUCH AND GO 70 MÁRIÓ Z. NEMES 72 DIGITAL ESCHATOLOGY DRAGANA BULUT 74 CABINET OF HAPPINESS MELANIE JAME WOLF 76 CHORUS ANDI SCHMIED 78 PRIVATE VIEW TIME AND SPACE TABLE 80 CHAPTER FIVE COPING STRATEGIES 82 LEA MORO, MONA DE WEERDT, 84 ALEXANDRA HENNIG SKETCH OF TOGETHERNESS – RELATED. BEGEGNUNGEN ALS BEWÄLTIGUNGSSTRATEGIE SKETCH OF TOGETHERNESS – RELATED. 88 ENCOUNTERS AS COPING STRATEGIES BOGLÁRKA BÖRCSÖK 90 FIGURING AGE IMRE VASS 92 HANDS-ON HENRY WILDE (AKA ANTONIA BAEHR) 94 & NEO HÜLCKER (AKA PROF PUPPY) TENTACULUS OHRI JANINE EISENÄCHER 96 ECOLOGIES OF LISTENING, ENVIRONMENTAL ENTANGLEMENTS TIME AND SPACE TABLE 102 ARTISTS AND AUTHORS 108 CURATORS AND MMPRAXIS 111 LÉNA SZIRMAY-KALOS 114 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF RELATIONALITY – AN OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF MONTAG MODUS AND ITS MAIN INITIATIVES KLIMATA PUBLICATION CREDITS 117 MONTAG MODUS KLIMATA TEAM 118 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND SUPPORTERS JASNA L. VINOVRŠKI, LÉNA SZIRMAY-KALOS, DÁNIEL KOVÁCS MONTAG MODUS KLIMATA – THE CURATORS’ INTRODUCTION Our aim with the interdisciplinary art project Montag Modus Klima- ta was to create a program that initiates a discussion around current global developments. We imagined Klimata as a collective research project with five consecutive events – in close collaboration with art- ists, authors, and curators. The project took place in 2019 across two different venues in Berlin: at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (CHB), the Hungarian cultural institute, and at Flutgraben Atelierhouse, an art- ist-run studio complex. As a thematic edition of the Montag Modus in- terdisciplinary event series, Klimata presented artists – from both Ber- lin and Budapest – whose practice was in choreography, performance art, time-based media or installation art. Imagining strategies of coexistence The fundamental objective of Klimata was to present a local reading of political, ecological and social crises from the perspective of people working in the field of the arts. With this project, we intended to exam- ine the role that art can play in unleashing our collective imagination to envision a different world which we could inhabit without destroying it. The title, Klimata, refers to Bruno Latour’s definition of ‘climates’ in the German translation of “Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Re- gime” (2018) and is understood as “a wide range of relationships be- tween humans and their material living conditions”1. Latour considers the ecological crisis of the Anthropocene to be a fundamental crisis of modernity – a modernity built on abstract assumptions and detached from its material constraints. The political anomalies of the present-day illustrate that the majority of the response to this crisis encourages un- holy alliances against the real problem – namely, to find another way to live on this Earth. Inspired by Latour’s suggestion that advocates both communion and world-relatedness as possible solutions, we were in- terested in launching a project that reconsiders subjective and fictional strategies as serious propositions for coexistence. A collective research project After researching and discussing the thematic direction of Klimata in 2018, we decided to work with five subtopics for the five events. The idea was to address the state of our climate from different ecological, social and political points of view and discuss it through notions that would be significant for us, the artists involved in the project, and our audience. By confronting the problem of our impact on the environ- ment, we wanted to engage with effects that go beyond – while closely linked to – the ecological crises. As a result of this, we examined both universal concepts such as empathy and social responsibility, as well as specific notions, such as pollution and the dangers posed by the rise of nationalism. At the start of the preparation for the live events, we approached artists from both Berlin and Budapest with a short description of the subtopics 1 Bruno Latour: “Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime”, Polity Press 2018, 9. and a keyword for each event. The catchphrases acted as a concep- 13 tual guideline which they could freely interpret. We then launched the project by posing a question: What role could art play when climate change is rapidly altering the world around us? With the first event, ti- tled “The Giant Arrived”, we sought to confront our impact on the envi- ronment and address the ecological crises. This was followed by “This is Not About You”, which focused on the relationship between human and non-human entities. The third event, “We Solemnly Swear”, took the topic of civic and political responsibility as a point of departure and gave an impulse for a revolution-to-come, while the fourth chap- ter, “Touch and Go”, explored the ephemera of the digital age and their impact impact on our changing relationships and forms of communica- tion across intimacies and distances. The final event of Klimata, “Cop- ing Strategies” looked for solutions to overcome mental states such as fear and indifference in order to be able to think and act in the direction of change. Caring for the community The term "curating" finds its etymological root in the Latin verb ‘curare’ which translates into English as ‘to care for’. In the frame of all Montag Modus projects, caring for social relations and situations, as well as for time and space, is an essential part of the curatorial work. This disposi- tion was thus also kept throughout Klimata. A significant component of all live events is the presence of the audi- ence and the performers. The format of Klimata embraced real time togetherness. At the center of many of the artworks was “the rela- tion among each other”. We believe that the assertion of collective presence in real time gathers new charge in the current context of technological mediation. Beyond the notion of participation, the act of assembling almost feels like a political gesture due to its raw potential for further action. As curators, we liked to position ourselves as caretakers of the pro- ject and acted as facilitators, not only during the gatherings but also throughout the entire preparation phase. Prior to each event, we of- fered artists a one-week, on-site mini-residency, during which which they were invited to adapt their piece to the venue. The preparation week was crucial to the program, as the artists were given the time to encounter different contexts which again allowed them to further de- velop their works.
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