Lecture: Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekman

On Friday the 6^th of April at 1PM an open lecture by Alice Creischer og Andreas Siekman will be held at the Department of Fine Art, Laugarnesvegur 91.

In the lecture titled Nature Meets Itself in the Stomache of the Predators they will present their research on the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard and the monopolisation of seeds.

In the Stomach of the Predators, explores the predatory logic of advanced capitalism. It is stemming from their joint research in the last several years concerning the privatization of the commons through the cases of seeds, land rights, and intellectual property. It takes us to the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen where the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a project set up to “protect” all existing agricultural kernels in the world from eventual extinction, is based. We learn, however, that the seed bank is financed by the very same corporate lobbies that exercise interests and practices that threaten crop diversity, including, among others, genetic manipulation.

The lecture will be held in english and is open to all.