In »Have a Tea with a Tree«, the artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis devotes herself to »künstlerische Wirklichkeitsforschung« (artistic reality research), a practice she has pursued over recent years at forest and climate research stations across Europe. The results are part of her ongoing project »FORSCHUNGSFLOSS« (Research Raft), a constantly evolving meta-installation in the form of the »Institute for Art and Subjective Science«, and the continuously developing series »Tools To Search«. The artist’s speculations on a cup of tea — and its site-specific creation from »data and everything that falls from the sky« — invite the audience into the forest, the clouds, or the floating matter in between, to explore artistic and scientific methods of measuring the invisible.

Agnes Meyer-Brandis studied sculpture at the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts in the Netherlands. She earned her Master’s degree in audiovisual media at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Her installations have been exhibited internationally and have received numerous prestigious awards.

Time:
Thursday, 15 May, 4 p.m.

Location:
Digital Bauhaus Lab
Performance Platform
Bauhausstraße 11
99423 Weimar

The artist talk »Have a Tea with a Tree« is part of the artistic research project »PostCompost – Forest Reset« (Professorship »Media Environments«). Within the associated project module, students from various faculties explore the transformation of devastated forest landscapes in Thuringia. Funded by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar as part of the annual theme »Beyond Now ⸺ Umwelten«.