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Mareike Dittmer
Public Engagement at TBA21-Academy
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Introducing TBA21–Academy, a contemporary art foundation and cultural ecosystem fostering a deeper understanding of and relationship to the Ocean through the arts to inspire care and action.
We are working together on how to bring the empirical approach of science together with the narrative capability of art, for fostering new and multiple forms of world-making, storytelling and way-finding, and to imagine a different future.
After ten years of creating content, raising awareness and visibility, researching, creating new knowledges and analysing them, we’ve identified a number of fundamental challenges the Ocean is facing through the way societies at large are engaging with it, and so over the last years our vision has sharpened into contributing to a world where everyone cares for the Ocean.
The talk takes you onto a journey how we work and how we think as a collective body, a metabolism of formats and activities, and to discuss how this can contribute to the discourse of curating.
Mareike Dittmer is Director of Public Engagement at TBA21-Academy, a contemporary art organisation fostering a deeper relationship to the Ocean and an incubator for collaborative research, artistic production, and new forms of transdisciplinary knowledge production, resulting in exhibitions, research, and policy interventions. From 2018 to 2020 Mareike was director of Art Stations Foundation CH, and since 2019 she is a lecturer at ZHdK, the Zurich art academy. From 2017 to 2019 Mareike conceived and chaired the annual Disputaziuns Susch and 2016 to 2018, together with Julieta Aranda, she chaired the 9th Futurological Congress convening in Warsaw, Tel Aviv and Munich. Until 2018 Mareike was the associate publisher of frieze magazine. She lives and works in Zurich (CH) and Berlin (D).