Date & Time: 26, March, 2025, 17:00-19:00
Location: Online Platform
Guest Speaker: Matthias Fritsch, Artist
Hosted within: Project Sustainability
Coordination: Dr. Daphne Dragona
More about the presentation:
Matthias Fritsch works as a film maker, visual artist and permaculturist. The last years he is working with organic materials and organisms, researching about circles of matter and biological processes. Since 2020, he co-runs a large forest garden near Berlin. His goal is to find a working methodology and lifestyle that decreases the individual environmental impact. During his talk he will present the projects, Waldgartenpilot Rehfelde, Experimental Gardens & a Shade Tree Nursery (large forest garden near Berlin), Ecopolis, Composting Furniture, The Mediterranean Garden (cope with global warming), Mycelium Network and Fungi Factor. He will discuss the importance and challenges of working with soil and organic matter for artists projects and systems for living. Defining his practice as Permakunst, he will address the needs of producing, presenting and maintaining such projects, and refer to their connection to other ecological practices.
More about the guest speaker:
Matthias Fritsch lives and works in Berlin. He studied media art at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (HfG) in Germany, and film, visual arts, and curating at the Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), in New York State, USA. He has made several short and feature-length films, as well as new media-based installations. In recent years, Fritsch has been experimenting with urban systems for food and soil production, developing tools for more sustainable everyday practices. For more information about the speaker visit: https://www.technoviking.tv/subrealic.net/
Event's language: English
Contact: daphne.dragona@ionio.gr
