Angela Anderson reading Returning the Gift by Robin Wall Kimmerer

To unfold the theoretical background of Crossings a series of collective readings are taking place in the exhibition. Angela Melitopoulos and Kunsthal Charlottenborg have invited theoreticians and artists to present a text related to Crossings.

The text by Dr. Robin Kimmerer, Professor of Environmental Biology and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, questions the modernist notion of earth as “natural resource”, poetically calling on us humans to think of ourselves as living in a world of natural gifts and to actively cultivate our relations to non-human others.

Angela Anderson is a researcher and video artist, and a co-author on the parts Skouries, Oreokastro, and Mithimna, Lesbos in Crossings. She has collaborated with Angela Melitopoulos since 2013 on several video installations as part of the long-term audio-visual research project Unearthing Disaster on the social movement fighting the construction of the Skouries gold mine. She is currently a fellow in the Art and Theory program at Künstlerhaus Büchsehausen in Innsbruck, Austria.

The collective reading is in English and takes place in the exhibition spaces. Texts will be provided, and no preparations needed.