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#37

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané & Teresa Castro

Feral thought and the queering of nature

As part of the 4th season of the "Creators facing Climate Emergency" series hosted at the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, the Fondation Thalie invites visual artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané to discuss with art historian Teresa Castro.

Artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's recent work focuses on the notion of "feral thinking" proposed by Juliana Fausto—ferality being, in the Brazilian writer’s own words "a transformation of what was once tamed into something that is no longer so, suggesting that maybe survival in the Anthropocene has something to do with becoming feral." Currently in Paris for the installation of the exhibition la Pensée Férale following his major retrospective at MACBA in Barcelona, and his participation in the Après l'orage exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce, he will be meeting Teresa Castro. A lecturer at Paris 3, she has worked on the relationship between weeds and cinema, animism, as well as notions of nature and queer botany.

Created in 2020 by the Fondation Thalie, this series of conversations between artists, designers and scientists committed to a post-carbon society aims to pass on new thinking and knowledge to inspire a whole new generation of creators, to invent imaginaries of transition, and to design and implement new ways of producing in the light of depleting natural resources. The great ecological challenge of our time.

Based on a curatorial proposal by Fondation Thalie, this fourth season hosted at the École des Arts Décoratifs is organised by Chiara Vecchiarelli, coordinator of the programme Creators facing the climate emergency, in co-construction with Patrick Laffont-DeLojo, teacher in stage design at the École des Arts Décoratifs.

Speakers

 Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

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