“Art in times of crises” Conference at ESAAA - École Supérieure d'Art Annecy Alpes, France
During this lecture, the artist Norman Behrendt will discuss his recent projects “Exit” (2022-2024) and “Kyiv–Berlin Metro Construction” (2023-2025), focusing on their reciprocal development. “Exit” examines hidden emergency infrastructures in Berlin as markers of vulnerability, control and latent crisis, while “Kyiv–Berlin Metro Construction” is a collaborative, transnational project with three Ukrainian artists, imagining a fictional metro line between Kyiv and Berlin amid destroyed or inaccessible infrastructures.
The lecture reflects on artistic practice as a responsive process, where parallel projects become testing grounds for shared political, spatial, and ethical concerns. It will explore research methods, investigative frameworks, and the use of fiction to consider very real futures, asking how urban environments can be read through the lenses of safety, vulnerability, and resilience.
Place:
Salle de musique au Conservatoire d’art et d’histoire
18 avenue de Trésum, 74000 Annecy
Time:
Wednesday, 25.02.2026, 5 - 7 pm
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