| Saturday,
November 21st, 2015
Musée de l’Homme, Paris
(metro station Trocadéro)
Free Entrance!
Bring a gift* and book an expert for half an hour!
Check-in opens at 7pm
*Every blackmarket is a place for bargain and trafficking.
The Musée de l'Homme, however, as a state funded institution is
not allowed to facilitate any sale of any products inside or in the surroundings
of the building. Therefore, the symbolic fee of one euro which is usually
exchanged in Blackmarkets for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge in order
to book an appointment with an expert, can´t take place in Paris.
In this event we kindly then ask you, our public and our clients, to bring
a gift instead. The gift is a violating provocation of the principle of
exchange of commodities - but will help you to book an expert at the Check
-In.
Concept
Hannah Hurtzig
Curators
Alexander Klose
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
with Laurens Otto
Scientific advisor
Denis Couvet
Artistic coordination
Sarah Lewis
Commissioned by
Sandra Terdjman and Grégory Castéra (Council)
with Alexandra Cohen (Cuesta)
Executive production
ARTER/VIVANTO
Production coordination
Anne Becker
with Julie Le Gall (bureau platÔ)
Technical director
Julien Bahuau
Communication
Rozenn Tanguy (Agence Ticoët)
Translation
Adelaïde Pralon
Design
Remco van Bladel
Julien Couret
Special Thanks to:
Emmanuel de la Baume, Solène Guillier, Bernard Guirkinger, Barbara
Klose-Ullmann, Catherine Larrère, Valérie Pihet, Maria Ines
Rodrigues.
With the generous support of:
MNHN – MH // REGION IDF //VILLE DE PARIS // UE FEDER // CNRS
LE BON COIN // SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT // NAF // FONDATION DE FRANCE //
LABEL COP21
www.museedelhomme.fr
www.formsofcouncil.org
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| Blackmarket
for Useful Knowledge
and Non-Knowledge No. 18
On Becoming Earthlings
150 Dialogues and Exercises in Shrinking and Expanding the Human
Photo: Maud Dhillit
INTRODUCTION
What does it mean to live in the Anthropocene? How do we
get there? And who will we be?
To think the Anthropocene takes putting into question our relationships
to all things and beings, from nature to technology. It means to
realign and to readapt – to set humankind into new proportions.
If 'nature' was the first colonized object of modern European thinking
and conquering, then the concept of the Anthropocene may demand
us to leave the humanistic scope of Western thought. But how do
you propel yourself into a new mindset?
In order to map the bio-geo-chemical as well as the imaginary and
spiritual state of things, the Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge
and Non-Knowledge assembles a multitude of experiences – from
scientific research to children’s books, from political activism
to artistic exploration, from utopian speculation to critical reflection.
If you want to meet an expert for a personal discussion, choose
a KEYWORD and book the subject that appeals to you at the CHECK-IN
counter. If you want to follow the discussions from the auditorium,
loan out a receiver from the headphone counter, check out the transmission
program and listen to selected conversations on BLACKMARKET RADIO.
Mobile Academy Berlin stages performances and meeting places of
knowledge. Each project is dedicated to a specific theme. Following
seventeen Blackmarkets in Berlin, Warsaw, Istanbul, Jaffa, Vienna,
Liverpool, Riga and other cities, this is the long-awaited first
Blackmarket in Paris.
Photo: Maud Dhillit
Photo: Maud Dhillit
ANTHROPOCENE
The term Anthropocene refers to our time as a new age in
earth history in which the impact of human activities on the environment
has become as severe as a geological force, and its traces will
still be visible millions of years from now. Though the concept
has been widely used in scientific discourse as well as in political
and cultural debate, it still awaits official recognition. The International
Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), a geological scientific body in
charge of keeping the global geologic time scale, is expected to
publish its final judgement on this matter in 2016.
Photo: Alexis Vettoretti
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ENCYCLOPEDIA
ADAPTATION
"ANTHROPOCENE"
APOCALYPTIC
REASON
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
CHILDREN’S
BOOKS
CLIMATE INEQUALITIES
CONCRETE UTOPIAS
DECOLONIZATION
DESIGN
DONNA HARAWAY
EARTH
EVOLUTION
FINANCE
FOOD
IMAGINEERING
INDIGENOUS
TRADITIONS
INVISIBLE
BEINGS
LEAVING EARTH
MIGRATION
MOLECULES
MYCOLOGIES
NETWORKS
NUCLEAR FUSION
PETROLEUM
PLASTICS
RELATIONS
RETHOUGHT
-with ANIMALS
-with NATURE
-with PLANTS
STRUGGLES
TIME
TIPPING POINTS
TRANSHUMANCE
WOLVES
PRACTICAL
EXERCISES
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