Monday 16.12 – 16:30-18:00
Master in Eco-Social Design, Free University of Bozen–Bolzano, C. 4.06 / Drawing Room
Valentina Karga’s work operates between art, design, architecture and research. It draws together elements of socially engaged practices and speculative experiments that question existing social and physical infrastructures within the realms of energy, economy, and sustainability.
In her talk, Valentina will explore the concept of “emotions compost,” a methodology she has developed that uses composting—both literally and metaphorically—as a means to process and transform collective emotions and create space for hope within challenging social and environmental contexts.
The talk, organised by Secil Ugur Yavuz and Rosario Talevi, will be followed by a conversation moderated by Elisabeth Tauber and Angelika Burtscher.
Valentina Karga is a berlin-based artist, born in Chalkidiki, a peninsula in Northern Greece. Trained as an architect, Valentina’s projects encourage engagement and participation, facilitate practices of commoning and are concerned with sustainability. She works across different media, often inviting a public or a community to literally complete the work. Sometimes, through dialogue and building prototypes in a DIY manner, they end up imagining alternatives for infrastructures and institutions that structure our reality. This is what she calls ‘Art as Simulation’. She is a founding member of Collective Disaster, an interdisciplinary group that works in the interstices of architecture and the social realm.
She was a fellow at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Science, University of the Arts Berlin, a Saari Fellow in Finland, and in residency at the NTU-CCA in Singapore and the Transmediale’s Vilém Flusser Program in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited internationally. 2018-2024 Valentina Karga has been a professor at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HfbK). With her students she developed projects that got exhibited at documentafifteen in Kassel and Somerset House in London.
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