This lecture explorations Micropolitical Ecopedagogies as a post-representational curatorial and artistic practice that sees to active relational, experiential, and embodied forms of knowledge production in response to contemporary social-ecological crises Drawing from critical pedagogy, decolonial thought, affect theory, and ecological philosophy, Berit Fischer exams how cultural practice can move beyond spectatorship towards forms of collective agency, critical consciousness, and ecological compatibility.
Central to the lecture is the argument that dominant systems of neoliberal, cognitive, and extractivist capitalism operate through separation, individualization, and the colonization of desire and imagination. In contrast, micropolitan ecopedagogies proposes of relational awareness, embodied learning, and affective exchange that foster new ways of sensing, relating, and acting within the planetary community of life.
Referencing thinkers such as Paulo Freire, Donna Haraway, Suely Rolnik, and Carolyn Pedwell, Fischer discusses concepts including consulting, the “knowing body,” active micropolitics, radical empathy, and post-anthropocentric ecological thinking Through
examples such as the Radical Empathy Lab and the (Re-)Gaining Ecological Futures Festival at Floating University Berlin, the lecture reflectors on experimental forms that intertwine artistic practice, pedagogy, ecology, and collective learning.
Positioned between curating, artistic research, and eco-social practice, Micropolitical Ecopedagogies prophecy cultural work as a space for transformative knowledge formation one that emotizes situation, heterogeneity, embodied criticism, and the culture of ecological literacy and planetary consciousness.
Bio:
Dr. Berit Fischer is a Berlin-based transdisciplinary practitioner working internationally as a curator, artist, researcher, writer, and lecturer. Her work focuses on social-ecological knowledge formation, critical practice, and transformative cultural methods inspired by alternative, feminist, radical, radical, and eco-pedagogies. Her practice explorores post-representational curriculum approaches, micropolitics, ecological consciousness, and empirical learning.
In 2016, she founded the Radical Empathy Lab, an ongoing nomadic socio-ecological art and
research laboratory for relational and experiential learning. She is also the founder and curator of (Re-)Gaining Ecological Futures, a transdisciplinary learning platform and festival at Floating University Berlin exploring ecological futures, post-anthropocentric thought, and regulatory forms of coexistence between human and the living world.
She is co-founding member of the International Forum for Eco-Embodied Arts and the performative project detours, as well as a founding member of the Listening Biennial and Urbane Praxis eV..
Her practice-based PhD at the University of Southampton/Winchester School of Art examined how curatorial practice can active micropolitan and holistic forms of social empathy and critical consciousness. Her work has presented internationally across universities, art institutions, festivals, and independent cultural spaces.
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This is the second lecture in a lecture series held each semester at the Department of Fine Arts at IUA. In seven lectures during the semester, experts in the field of visual art discuss their own research, experiments, and artistic practice.
The lecture will take place in the lecture hall at IUA Laugarnes, Laugarnesvegur 91, 105 Reykjavík and is open across departments and to the public.
Language: English.