\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>The Safiental valley was shaped by the Rabiusa River, whose name translates as \u201craging\u201d, and is now tamed by hydropower. The land, largely cultivated wherever the hillsides are not too steep, is dotted with dispersed settlements. To the north, the valley is bordered by the famous Rhine Gorge, a colossal wound ripped open ten thousand years ago by a landslide. In this landscape, the catastrophic is as palpable as the cultivated. The romantic and the technological meet in unexpected infrastructures.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>In the site-specific exhibition What if? Songs from Tomorrowlands<\/em>, artists react to this territory, looking at the Safiental valley and the Alps as a crucible for human and natural activity. The temporality of the landscape is expanded and connected with other places and times through the resonance of local and global voices, memories, and myths. In this context, \u201cWhat if?\u201d is more than just a rhetorical question, and songs are not only understood as melodies. They are tools that encourage us to go beyond the familiar and connect to ourselves, all kinds of other living beings, and the environment through new affiliations and identities, shaped by the exchange and transformation of alternative knowledge and stories. \u201cWhat if\u201d is thus understood as world-making, inviting us to seek collective healing and harmony, driven by the idea that hope is a muscle<\/em> (Bj\u00f6rk) that must constantly be exercised.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0What if? Songs from Tomorrowlands<\/em> refers to a relational point of view: one that listens to the whispers and collective chants from possible futures in a time of multiple choices, crises, opportunities, and catastrophes. Together, we set out to reflect on and act upon the present through the lens of the times to come \u2013 by asking ourselves in the future perfect tense (Harald Welzer): What will we have done, and what will we have left undone? How do we want to be remembered, and how can we become \u201ca good ancestor\u201d (Roman Krznaric)?
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>The thirteen voices spread across the valley, ricocheting across the meadows, forests, and rocky outcrops, reverberating questions, hopes and fears.\u00a0This songbook of utopian and dystopian spells is nourished by dreams, imagination, and the speculative worlds of science fiction.\u00a0In Safiental, the changing mountainous environment encourages\u00a0us to question our sense of collective belonging and the way we relate to the world around us.\u00a0Echoing the chorus of this increasingly sticky melody, it prompts us to practice the \u201cWhat if?\u201d.<\/p>\n
Artistic director, curator<\/strong>: Johannes M. Hedinger<\/a> Art works\u00a0<\/strong> Artist Residency<\/strong> Dates<\/strong><\/span> Opening<\/strong>: July 5-7, 2024 (detailed program<\/a>) The temporary artworks and projects of the 13 art positions are spread across the entire valley, with a concentration around the four villages of Versam, Tenna, Safien Platz and Thalkirch<\/strong>. The works can be visited free of charge and usually around the clock. A short guide with a map<\/strong><\/a> provides the exact locations of the artworks and interesting facts about the exhibition, the individual works, Land and Environmental Art and Safiental. A catalog<\/strong> will be published towards the end of the Biennale. Research projects<\/strong>:<\/strong> ACLA<\/a> Marcus Maeder \/ Safientaler Gespr\u00e4che<\/a> (Oral History)<\/p>\n > <\/strong>artworks<\/strong><\/a> What if? Songs from Tomorrowlands In the summer of 2024, the voices of thirteen artists will be heard in the Alpine valley of Safiental, located in the Canton of Grisons, Switzerland. Akin to mountaineers calling to each other from mountain tops, the tales of different futures and speculative scenarios will bounce off the peaks and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5942,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5954","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":69,"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7119,"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5954\/revisions\/7119"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCo-<\/strong>Curators<\/strong>: Anne-Laure Franchette<\/a>,\u00a0Josiane Imhasly<\/a>,\u00a0Joanna Lesnierowska<\/a><\/p>\n
\nRavi Agarwal & Paulina Lopez (IN, CL): YECH\u2019N TIME<\/strong><\/a>
\nPaloma Ayala & Sascha Skraban (MX\/CH): BREASTWORKS<\/strong><\/a>
\nMagali Dougoud (CH\/FR): ZOMBIE MERMAIDS \u2013 A SONG FOR FUTURE WATERS<\/strong><\/a>
\nHemauer\/Keller (CH): M \u00fc. M.<\/strong><\/a>
\nMonica Ursina Jaeger (CH): TRANSIENT TRAVELLER<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>
\nOla Maciejewska (PL\/FR): THE SECOND BODY <\/strong><\/a>
\nVibeke Mascini (NL): TANGERE<\/strong><\/a>
\nErnesto Neto (BR): FROM EARTH TO EARTH<\/strong><\/a>
\nQUARTO (BR\/SE): MOVING LANDSCAPES<\/strong><\/a>
\nStefanie Salzmann (CH\/BE): TRAUMSAMMLERINNEN<\/strong><\/a>
\nRenae Shadler (AU\/DE): UNDER MY GAZE<\/strong><\/a>
\nAndrea Francesco Todisco (CH): BAUPROFILE<\/strong><\/a>
\nHuhtamaki Wab (JP\/UK): NOMADIC FREQUENCIES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\nFarah Mulla (IN): SYNTHETIC HARVEST<\/strong><\/a>
\nSujit Mallik (IN): THE HOLE (listenting station)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\nExhibition duration<\/strong>: <\/strong>July 6 \u2013 October 20, 2024 > Exhibition Guide\/Map <\/a>\/ <\/strong>Google Map<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPerformance 20.7. <\/strong>Safien Platz (program<\/a>)
\nPerformance 15.9. <\/strong>Valendas (program<\/a>)
\nFinissage<\/strong>: October 20, 2024 (program<\/a>)
\nGuided Tours<\/strong>:<\/strong> on request<\/p>\n
\nThe Berghotel Alpenblick<\/strong> in Tenna serves as an information center for the exhibition, including an information point, a research exhibition on the biennial (What if? Questions to the future), organized by the ILEA Institute for Land and Environmental, which has its office in the hotel and runs a residency program.<\/p>\n
\n> <\/strong>exhibition guide<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\/ Google Map<\/a>
\n> <\/strong>Press release<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/archiv.artsafiental.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4.-Monica-Ursina-Jaeger_1-scaled.jpg\")
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