Panel 2 (Red Salon/ Volksbühne)
Climate Crisis - Culture Contact
With Minik Rosing (DK/GL), Catherine Bush (CA).
Moderation: Martin Zähringer
With Minik Rosing we continue the cultural introduction to the life of the Greenlanders after more than 300 years of colonial history. Minik Rosing is a geologist who discovered the oldest traces of life in Greenlandic gneiss sand.
He belongs to one of the most important families of Greenlandic artists and has himself worked with artists such as Per Kirkeby and Olafur Eliasson. The subject of these collaborations has often been the Greenlanders' culture of memory, but also global warming and climate change.
Minik Rosing will read from his autobiography, a unique testimony of life between cultures. With Catherine Bush from Canada, the geologist shares the interdisciplinary approach to art and science.
Catherine Bush is a member of the Climate Fiction Writers League whose authors believe that fiction can also move people to action.
In Panel 10 on Monday, she will discuss in more detail her Arctic cli-fi novel "Blaze Island", and with Minik Rosing her creative knowledge practice between art and science.
Catherine Bush is a Canadian writer. She teaches creative writing
at the University of Guelph. In 2019, she was a Fiction meets Science Fellow (FMS)
in Germany, a research project that aims to combine science, fiction, and art.
"Blaze Island" is her fifth novel. It's about an outcast climate scientist who wants
to escape his history on a windy island on the north coast of Canada.
Titles:
• Blaze Island 2020
Minik Rosing is a Greenlandic-Danish geologist. He is a Professor
of Geology at the University of Copenhagen and Director of the Geological Museum in
Copenhagen. Minik Rosing became known for his research with Isua Gneiss and
is one of Denmark's most prominent scientists. He is a book author, a popular
communicator between science and the public, and often collaborates with artists.
Titles:
• Rejse til tidernes morgen (Journey to the Dawn of Time), 2018