Assisting Researcher & Organizer: Tina Plokarz
4-8 November 2024
The interdisciplinary 4A_Lab Academy “Ecological Entanglements across Collections – Plant Lives and Beyond” took place in November 2024 and was a collaborative initiative by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (KHI) and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK). The academy builds on the ecocritical turn in the humanities and explores the role of plant life in artistic and aesthetic practices, human knowledge production, and theoretical critical thinking across histories, communities, and geographies. Through a series of panels, lectures, workshops, collection visits, and performances, the academy invites participants to collectively (re)think human entanglements with vegetal and non-human life, in dialogue with the collections of the SPK.
Concept and Organisation by Dr. Hannah Baader & 4A_Lab team in collaboration with Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
More information about the Academy here.
Press & Documentation
* Brief report with image gallery “Pflanzenwissen im Lichte von Künsten und Archiven” (SPK)
* Announcement by SPK “Pflanzen Denken“