Across Burning Glass, Reading Stone, a Reader-in-Residence program brings readers into dialogue with each image set. This month, the Blackwood is pleased to welcome artist Laurie Kang into dialogue with Oscar Santillán’s project, Solaris.
In this podcast, Kang and Santillán discuss the broader context of Solaris: its reference to Stanisław Lem's novel, entangled histories of science and colonization, and newer movements in science and technology studies that de-centre human exceptionalism.
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Oscar Santillán is an artist and cybernetician living in The Netherlands and Ecuador. His early career was deeply shaped by working within collective environments, and he continues to collaborate with scientists and other curious minds. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and has been artist-in-residence at Skowhegan (US), Jan van Eyck (NL), Ratti Foundation (IT), Delfina Foundation (UK), and Leiden Astronomical Observatory (NL). His work has been exhibited in the Yokohama Triennial 2020, and at MUAC Museum, Mexico; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Copperfield, London; Fundación ODEON, Bogotá; Spazio Calderara, Milan; Château La Borie, Solignac; among others. He is one of the igniters setting órbitat—a platform for the encounter of art, science, and technology in Latin America—in motion.
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Introduced by Laura Tibi, Educator-in-Residence.
Download an episode transcript below.
- Reader-in-Residence
- Laurie Kang
- Artist
- Oscar Santillán