18 January 2020, Octopus day: Performance, Screening, Präsentation. Accompanying event of the exhibition Goodbye Cruel World, It's Over, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Anne presented Okto-Lab at OCTOPUS DAY: Performance, Screening, Präsentation as part of the exhibition Goodbye Cruel World, It’s Over.
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January 2020, Free Summer School Holiday Workshops, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
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This April holiday program offers young people the opportunity to explore ideas in a series of collaborative, multi-art form workshops responding to the exhibition, OktoLab19.
OktoLab19 workshop series is a creative studio aimed at providing young artists (8 - 12 years). Two different workshops that lead participants through creative exercises that interpret different responses to the theme of OktoLab.
focus activity 1: make experimental art pieces
Inspired by the OktoLab artists’ works, participants are invited to explore their creativity to make their own experimental art pieces, making and working with a colour palette derived from scavenged and foraged inks.
- Friday 24th January: 12 noon – 2pm
- Saturday 25th January: 3pm – 5pm
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focus activity 2: colour, camouflage and adaptability
In this workshop we will think through colour, camouflage and adaptability as forms of communication, recognising the distinction between human and octopuses, between blending in and being seen.
- Friday 24th January: 3pm – 5pm
- Saturday 25th January: 12 noon – 2pm
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Free – all materials will be provided, but come dressed for making and play
- Parents must sign a consent to participate form upon arrival.
- Public programs suitable for ages 8-12
- Please bring a sense of curiosity and wear clothes to get messy in.
- Participants are to bring a drink bottle and snacks.
- Bookings essential due to limited numbers.
11 January 2020, OktoLab19: a gallery of octopus aesthetics, Symposium, University of Tasmania, Centre for the Arts, Hunter Street
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All day symposium of artist talks, readings, and presentations, plus a special live performance by Madison Bycroft. Full schedule will be emailed to all ticket holders.
Vegan morning tea and lunch provided. Please advise of any dietary requirements.
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22-23 November 2019, British Animal Studies Network (BASN) Meeting, University of Leeds, Workshop Theatre
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André Krebber will talk about ‘The Wicked Octopus’ at the British Animal Studies Network (BASN) Meeting. Their autumn meeting will address the topic ‘Movements’.
See program » BASN Meeting
1 - 4 July 2019, Decolonizing Animals, AASA Conference, Ōtautahi (Christchurch), Aotearoa (New Zealand)
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Yvette Watt, André Krebber and Maike Riedinger represent Okto-Lab at the Australasien Animal Studies Conference Decolonizing Animals with a talk about Okto-Visions: Decolonizing the Anthropogenic Mind
See conferece program » AASA Conference: Decolonizing Animals
22 & 23 June 2019, Exploring Octopus Worlds: Okto-Lab Workshop, University of Kassel, Campus Center, Moritzstr. 18, Kassel, Germany
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For several decades now, the live of animals and their roles in different cultures are being fundamentally reevaluated. This coincides with a push towards more integrative, interdisciplinary research perspectives wherein the humanities and the arts increasingly take their place alongside the sciences in studying the material aspects of nature; actor-network-theory, speculative realism, object-centered ontology and new materialism are among its most enigmatic theoretical manifestations. Our workshop brings together artists, scientists and scholars from different disciplines and artistic practices in an attempt to access the alien world of the octopus.
Exploring Octopus Worlds relies on octopuses as organisms to practice such collaboration while exploring the arts as a way of understanding the octopus as organism. Due to their highly aesthetic and decentralized being and alienness, octopuses provide the ideal creature for such explorations. Discussions will be object- and material-based by asking the invited presenters to bring along an item to introduce their work and develop their thoughts on octopuses and by interspersing the roundtables with various cultural, material and scientific texts on octopuses.
Please register for the workshop by 17 June through: krebber@uni-kassel.de. Participation is free.
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1 October 2018, Octopus Aesthetics Symposium, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Australia
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This symposium brings researchers from UTAS, Germany and elsewhere in Australia to open up a dialogue on this fascinating and complex animal. Speakers will be drawn from a range of disciplines including the biological sciences, literature, cultural studies and the visual arts. The symposium is part of a larger project that brings together artists, writers and researchers from UTAS and the University of Kassel, Germany, to create two public exhibitions on the octopus in Hobart and Kassel in 2019.
Registration is free and includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. RSVP by September 24 for catering purposes.
Presentations are welcome: abstracts due by September 21. RSVPs and further information: Toby.Juliff (at) utas.edu.au
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11 & 12 July 2018, Encounters with Natural Beauty, Edinburgh, UK
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Yvette Watt represents Okto-Lab at the 2-day workshop Encounters with Natural Beauty at the University of Edinburgh in July, both talking octopus aesthetics and trying to extend a tentacle into Edinburgh for future collaborations. You can read everything about it at:
» encounterswithnaturalbeauty.wordpress.com