Beeld: Laura Ponchel, Photo: Teresa Borasino

Sprekers: Klasse Klima & Teresa Borasino
This lecture will be English spoken

Part I
In the first talk the collective Klasse Klima will introduce their work. First, they will give insight in the collective organisation at Klasse Klima and the technical basis for communication, which is handled with the help of open source software. Second, the collective will take a look at Studium Planetare, a current large-scale project, which is based on the more than urgent need of an ongoing course program to tackle the multidimensional crisis. Klasse Klima is envisioning a complex program starting with several seminars and lecture series, which should establish a comprehensive ecological and sustainable education in every study program of the University of the Arts Berlin, as well as any other art school.

Part II
In the second talk, artist and activist Teresa Borasino will delve into her artistic practice, placing a primary emphasis on the ecological entanglements and ancestral wisdom of the Andes. She will contextualise her research within the framework of the collaborative project 'Towards Post-Extractive Cultures (TPEC),' which she convened earlier this year. TPEC serves as a platform for exploring the vast plurality of exiled ways of existence and forms of knowledge, all while facilitating the process of unlearning harmful patterns, habits, and narratives inherited from modern and colonial structures.

Klasse Klima is an open, autonomous and transdisciplinary collective. It communicates the climate crisis in art and design practice and education. Klasse Klima intervenes in educational politics and creates student-led seminars in art universities as well as organising workshops, residencies and exhibitions for art and design practitioners and the broader public. 

The collective was founded 2019 by students of University of the Arts, Berlin, to establish the confrontation with the climate crisis in art and design education. Klasse Klima wants to transform the current methods of hierarchical teaching and create a democratic, collaborative learning experience where responsibility and contributions are shared in the seminars and which should be accessible to everyone.

Teresa Borasino is an artist, researcher and educator born in Peru and based in Amsterdam. Her practice spans a variety of mediums, encompassing public interventions, performances, installations, soundscapes, and text. She seeks to contribute to the pluriversing of the world by cultivating a deeper understanding of the ecological and sacred entanglements experienced by exiled communities.

Borasino is a co-founder of Fossil Free Culture, an artist collective that operates at the intersection of art and climate justice. They have been confronting oil and gas sponsorship of public cultural institutions in the Netherlands since 2016. In 2021, Borasino embarked on artistic research into the Andean cosmovision and its tapestry of ancestral knowledge and ecological practices. In 2023, she convened the experimental platform 'Towards Post-Extractive Cultures'. She is currently a fellow researcher at the 2023/2024 BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice.