On the occasion of the first public art exhibition by Hamburg City Curator, which takes place at the Stadtpark and in the Planetarium Hamburg, and includes the recreation of Aby Warburg’s Image Collection on the History of Astrology and Astronomy, the symposium explores the everlasting human impulse to look up to the sky, in order to make sense of our place on Earth. In a mixture of readings, performances, theory and culinary experiments, we will explore how art mediates various meanings of planetarity, in political, scientific and mythological terms. We traverse the entanglements between a grain of sand, the bacteria in our gut, rare earth minerals inside our phones and the history of Islamic astrology and astronomy. These various inputs enable the imagination of planetary publicness, as a vista of orientation beyond Earthly extraction and exploitation.

Our fellow José Luis Chicoma will present at 15.10 pm: "On Food Systems and the Commons: From the Peruvian anchovy to the Nordic salmon".

Curated by: Joanna Warsza and Patricia Reed
With: Uwe Fleckner, Shahira Issa, KITE, Raqs Media Collective, Bill Sherman and others