Almost the entire cosmos of digital hardware consists of problematic raw materials, the extraction of which is associated with the destruction of habitats and serious human rights violations. We talk to artists Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz about their research and the demands of eco-feminist hardware and hackerspaces. The matching object for our conversation is from the MAK Design Lab: two NASA images of the Chilean Atacama Desert, which document lithium mining and its toxic effects within a few decades.

The talk will be held in English.

THE FORMAT CONVERSATION PIECES
We need to talk! In the art education format Conversation Pieces we will speak with artists, activists, scientists, and personalities from various fields about select objects from the MAK Collection. Conversation Pieces is dedicated to themes like diversity, feminism, participation or loneliness, symbiotic bodies, racism in collections, planet care, and much more. We use the MAK as a polyphonic place for the exchange of ideas and to engage in various sociopolitical discourses and problems that enable new perspectives on an extraordinary collection. Conversation Pieces can be understood as an impetus to make widespread pictorial worlds and narratives visible and to critically question them by talking about them together.

PRICE

Online Presale
€ 12 (incl. admission to the MAK)
€ 5 (if admission to the museum if free, eg with MAK Annual ticket)
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Tickets on site on day of the event
Tickets available at ticket desk from 6 p.m. on day of the event
€ 17 (incl. admission to the MAK)
€ 10 (if admission to the museum if free, eg with MAK Annual ticket)

SUBSCRIPTION
10x Conversation Pieces for € 100,- including admission to the museum on the day in question. For subscriptions please contact education@mak.at