ARTPORT_making waves will bring IOC-UNESCO, IASS Potsdam, the Alfred-Wegener-Institut and many scientific stakeholders together with school students and artists, art philanthropists and politicians to discuss real change regarding the health of our oceans, the most important source of life in our planet.
You will be able to explore different narratives and action initiatives about our bodies of water through participatory workshops, panels, film and sound. It hopes to incite the formation of a movement within civil society that focuses on regional, bottom-up initiatives which emphasize the role of the citizen as a powerful actor and shaper of governance. This will be done through different mediums and locations - Berlin, Venice, and Marseille, three cities with very different relationships to water. WE ARE OCEAN is designed with different citizen experiences in mind:
• Art-science workshops led by the artists Lisa Rave (Berlin), John Palmesino (Venice), Marc Johnson (Marseille) in cooperation with scientists and teachers for schools in Berlin, Venice and Marseille which will then lead to interactive interventions and performances in public space, where students, audience and workshop leaders interact, and will finally be presented in local exhibition spaces.
• a curated film and sound art program
• interactive and participatory panel discussions with dynamic formats
• social media and podcast campaigns linking all three cities
WE ARE OCEAN is a year-long endeavour. First stop? Berlin.
Where:
Montessori School Niederbarnim (Brandenburg)
Barbara-Zürner-Oberschule Velten (Brandenburg)
Schule am Berlinickeplatz, Berlin
What: School workshops with artist Lisa Rave and scientist Oscar Schmidt as well as the curators Julia Moritz and Anne-Marie Melster
Where: Marine Regions Forum, Vienna House Andel’s Hotel , Berlin
What: Interactive Intervention with schools on ocean health and citizen action & Curated film screenings by ARTPORT, and Lisa Rave's WIR SIND MEER BERLIN
(closed event, press accreditation with Sabine.Letz@iass-potsdam.de
Where: Marine Regions Forum, Vienna House Andel’s Hotel, Berlin
What: Panel Discussion “WE ARE OCEAN: Can the arts mobilize young audiences regarding ocean conservation?” (invitation only)
With:
Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius (Director, Alfred-Wegener-Institut)
Markus Reymann (Director, TBA21-Academy)
Thierry Pérez (Labex-OT-Med/ Institut Pythéas, Marseille)
Michelle-Marie Letelier (Artist, Chile/Germany),
Lisa Rave (Artist, Germany),
and students.
Moderators: Anne-Marie Melster (ARTPORT, curator, co-moderator), and the scientist MR (IASS Potsdam)
Where: Futurium Berlin (open to the public, free entrance)
What: Interactive Intervention with schools and dialogue discussions, film screenings.
With:
Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius (Director, Alfred-Wegener-Institut)
Dr. Lukas Köhler (Member of the German Parliament, Berlin)
Markus Reymann (TBA21-Academy) and Sebastian Unger (IASS Potsdam)
Further events at CLB Berlin and State Studio Berlin (details to be announced):
https://artport-project.org/we-are-ocean/
For more information about the partnership between WE ARE OCEAN and the UN Decade of Ocean Science, please contact Francesca Santoro (f.santoro@unesco.org) or Anne-Marie Melster (anne-marie.melster@artport-project.org ).
