Matadero Madrid center for contemporary creation

Eco-visionaries

Art for a planet in a state of emergency
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Tuesday to Sunday and public holidays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Free entry

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Nave 16
Nave 16
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Forty visionary artists and architects respond to the urgency of the environmental crisis threatening our planet

Forty visionary artists and architects respond to the urgency of the environmental crisis threatening our planet and are occupying Nave 16 of Matadero Madrid to take part in the international Eco-visionarios project, an exhibition-cum-manifesto that condemns the situation but first and foremost presents proposals.

At a time when climate change is becoming ever more obvious and the voices calling for radical action are increasing in number and growing louder, eco-visionaries put forward critical and creative visions for storytelling, initiating discussions and devising strategies for surviving in the world to come, which they present in a range of contemporary art practices, among them installations, audiovisual works and projects in other media. From the extinction of species to deforestation, from pollution of the seas to the toxicity of the air we breathe, from the foreseeable climate refugees to the need to imagine new food systems, the exhibition addresses the most important crisis that humankind faces.

Curated by Pedro Gadanho, Mariana Pestana and the Matadero Madrid team, Eco-Visionarios is structured into four themed sections: Disaster, Extinction, Co-existence and Adaptation. Ever since pre-industrial times and particularly from the second half of the last century onwards, environmental degradation and human-caused climate change have been increasing at a pace without precedent in any previous period of history. The exhibition examines the theoretical framework of the Anthropocene, a concept used by some in the scientific community for this new geological era we live in, and a term that makes reference to its defining characteristic: the responsibility borne by humans as the agents of environmental change on a planetwide scale.

Eco-VIsionaries is the shared title of an international exhibition project originally organised by the MAAT (Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnología) in Lisbon (Portugal), Bildmuseet de Umeå (Sweden), House of Electronic Arts (HeK) in Basel (Switzerland) and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón. It was conceived as a work in progress to which new contributions have been added by the Centro de Creación Contemporánea Matadero Madrid and the Royal Academy of Arts in London (United Kingdom). In Spain, Matadero Madrid and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón are working in partnership on the joint presentation of this proposal.

Eco-Visionaries is being presented in Matadero Madrid as the first activity of a new initiative, the centre’s Download the Eco-Visionaries and Cyborg Garden program here.

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