Members of the ERSU theme Earth Resilience & Whole Earth System Analysis visited the exhibition Planetarische Bauern - Planetary Peasants in the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale) in a voluntary excursion. The exhibition brings together 30 international artists and collectives to explore the realities of contemporary farming and the conditions of globalized agriculture. Through site-specific works developed during residencies in Saxony-Anhalt, the artists investigate current agricultural practices and their emancipatory potential, while drawing connections to historical struggles that remain relevant today.
Current agricultural realities are relevant for the group, for example for modelling efforts that aim to investigate transitions to regenerative agriculture with a novel hybrid DGVM-based modeling framework for dynamic land use and agricultural management, forthcoming. As art can spark scientific work by offering new perspectives, provoking critical questions, and creating interdisciplinary spaces through aesthetic experience, we hope to have acquired fresh approaches to our research through this visit.
After the visit in Halle, the group also attended a talk at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena by Prof. Dr. Nico Wunderling, titled "Overshooting tipping points in a warming world: Designing Risk Assessments for Planetary Stability", thus reconnecting to the planetary perspective, in which also considerations of transforming agriculture can play an important role in preventing the overshooting of dangerous tipping points, for example in the Amazon rainforest. This excursion also geographically showcases the bridge character of ERSU between the institutes in Jena and Potsdam, with Halle (Saale) being situated between both locations.
Members of ERSU that took part in this excursion are: Jonathan Donges, Fritz Kühlein, Hannah Prawitz, Marlene Rimmert, Luana Schwarz and Max Bechthold. Special thanks to Fritz and Marlene for the organisation of the event and to the press teams of the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg and Werkleitz for the kind provision of the lead image.
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