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A Memorial for the Still Living, Beatriz da Costa. Photo Steve ShrimptonBeatriz da Costa in conversation
The Arts Catalyst
50-54 Clerkenwell Road
London EC1M 5PS
UK
28/01/2011
Friday 28 January, 6.30-8pm
Beatriz da Costa discusses the inspiration and processes involved in creating the installation which confronts visitors with the reality of British species threatened with extinction.
The Los Angeles-based artist will talk about her recent work, A Memorial for the Still Living with Rikke Hansen, host of Nature Calls: Animals in Visual Culture on Resonance 104.4 FM, London's arts radio station.
The installation, A Memorial for the Still Living, curated by The Arts Catalyst and John Hansard Gallery, was recently displayed at the Horniman Museum, London.
Beatriz da Costa will discuss the inspiration and processes involved in creating the installation which confronts visitors with the reality of British species threatened with extinction, and how it relates to her other projects which explore the biopolitics of endangered species. She will also describe her latest participatory mobile and social media initiative - www.4thestillliving.net
Book online
http://beatrizdacosta.eventbrite.com/ Admission to the event is free, places are limited. The event was originally planned for November 2010.
Please contact The Arts Catalyst if you have access needs since the event will be held on the first floor and there is no lift available.
The exhibition
A Memorial for the Still Living is a contemporary art installation which confronts visitors with the reality of British species threatened with extinction. It is a continuation of da Costa’s investigation into interspecies. Her interest here is to confront visitors with the only mode of encounter left once a species has grown extinct: the description, image, sound or taxidermed shell of a once thriving organism. However, rather than focusing on already extinct species, da Costa’s focus is on the ‘still living’; species that have been classified as being under threat, but which still stand a chance for survival if immediate action is taken.
www.4thestillliving.net website and app: To coincide with the exhibition, da Costa has released the Endangered Species Finder, a mobile application that helps you to locate, identify, and submit sightings of endangered species in the UK.
A Memorial for the Still Living was commissioned by The Arts Catalyst and co-curated with the John Hansard Gallery, Office of Experiments and SCAN, for Dark Places in 2009.
Weblinks
Beatriz da Costa, John Hansard Gallery, Rikke Hansen, Horniman Museum