In November 2023, during a visit to AiR 351, Alice Miceli and Michael Marder realized they had experienced and worked in several countries affected by various types of traumatic events. Recognizing the commonality in their backgrounds, AiR 351 has invited both Miceli and Marder to participate in a live event. They will explore the topic of trauma in places impacted by nuclear disasters, war zones, and ecological devastation.

Drawing from their own artistic and personal experiences, Miceli and Marder will delve into the role of art, philosophy, and collaboration in confronting and overcoming these collective and more-than-human traumatic situations.

Join us for this thought-provoking event organized by AiR 351.

An event organized by AiR 351

ISSUE THEME: (ECO)TRAUMATIC LANDSCAPES IN CONTEMPORARY AUDIOVISUAL CULTURE

‘Traumatomic’ Encounters. Trauma Through Radioactivity in Photofilmic ’Experimental Documents’ of Chernobyl

by Beja Margitházi, Eötvös Loránd University

Join us for our next Open Studios at AiR 351, on October 14 (Saturday), from 11am to 7pm, with our current residents: Alice Miceli, Edison Peñafiel, Suzana Queiroga and Jessica Segall.

BOOK LAUNCH / LECTURE SERIES

O ebook "Atos de tradução" reúne o material do ciclo homônimo realizado em 2021, onde artistas e pensadores de diferentes saberes e linguagens se reuniram acerca de uma problemática que hoje se coloca enquanto potência no debate contemporâneo: a tradução, entendida em seu campo ampliado.

PANEL

Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History (HESCAH)

José Falconi (moderator) / Panel Participants: Amalia Pica, Alice Miceli, José Gabriel Fernández

“Plural Domains: Art in, of, from Latin America” includes one art history lecture and a panel discussion comprised of internationally recognized artists and a scholar, each with a distinguished career and record of exhibitions, publications and participation in public events. The events take as their point of departure the exhibition Plural Domains: Selected Works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Collection, which is curated by Jesús Fuenmayor for University Galleries and the Harn Museum of Art. The panel addresses the interconnections between artistic practices, curatorial research as well as diversity and pluralism in the contemporary art of Latin America.

PANEL

This panel will contextualize Alice Miceli's experimental mode of documentation within the genre of photography.

Alice Miceli's work operates within a legacy of documentary photography to depict the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl explosion. Instead of repeating the widespread images of the abandoned buildings of Pripyat and its survivors, she developed a scientific method to document the radiation itself. This panel will contextualize her experimental mode of documentation within the genre of photography.

PANEL

This panel addresses how the risk of nuclear disaster continues to threaten global health, human rights, and the environment.

Although visitors to Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl can see the effects of the gamma rays, the imperceptibility of its threat heightened the Chernobyl Power Plant explosion’s consequences for the population surrounding Pripyat. This panel addresses how the risk of nuclear disaster continues to threaten global health, human rights, and the environment.

TALK

Alice will introduce and discuss the exhibition, Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl. She will shed light on the process of her series made in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone as well her work on land mines in Angola, Cambodia, Colombia, and Bosnia. Her work in impenetrable spaces reveals urgent issues about art, human rights, and the environment.

TALK

Na ocasião do encerramento da exposição "Em Profundidade: Campos Minados", de Alice Miceli, acontecerá no próximo sábado, dia 13 de junho, a partir das 15h30, uma conversa aberta ao público entre o curador da mostra Luiz Camillo Osorio e a artista.

A série é o desenvolvimento de um projeto realizado ao longo dos últimos anos, explorando territórios que passaram por conflitos sangrentos e que seguem matando mesmo depois de declarada a paz. Com curadoria de Luiz Camillo Osorio, a mostra apresentará ao público pela primeira vez a série completa de fotografias que investigam a permanência de campos minados no Camboja (2014), na Colombia (2015), Bósnia (2016) e Angola (2018). ⠀

TALK

In this talk, Artist-in-Residence Alice Miceli will discuss her research on landscapes inscribed with human-induced traumas and how former theatres of war raise issues of visibility, accessibility, and memory. Focusing on two of her major projects—Chernobyl Project (2007–2011), which revolves around the exclusion zone generated by the infamous nuclear disaster and In Depth (landmines) (2014–ongoing), a photographic inquiry into landscapes contaminated with unexplored landmines—Miceli will unravel the multiple methodologies, from archival research and investigative travels to formal experimentation, which frame the traces of trauma in the context of her practice.

TALK

The Brazilian artist will present a talk on recent works that explore the phenomenon of impenetrable, inaccessible spaces, that even in our globalized world, remain somehow off the map.

PANEL

Transferred Presence will be an evening of video work and a panel discussion with the purpose of addressing the relevance of the artists' body and the potential disappearance of their physicality with the constant advent of new virtual ways of interacting with the environment.