Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice: Vanina Saracino
A series of talks organised by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter
Talk
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Vanina Saracino: "Our best machines are made of sunshine: post-carbon imaginaries and the solar energy transition"
In this talk, Saracino examines post-carbon imaginaries through the lens of art, focusing on the idea of human metabolic independence in the shift from fossil fuels to solar energy. By reframing technology as part of a shared ‘natureculture’ continuum, she asks how we might reconsider our relationship with energy—not as a purely technological challenge, but as a cultural, political, and ecological transformation. Drawing on curatorial methods, Saracino weaves connections between diverse artworks and ideas, using speculative thinking, situated knowledge, and storytelling to reimagine our entanglement with energy and the sun.
The series ‘Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice’ by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter, continues at Radialsystem from December 2024, carving out space for critical curatorial thinking as well as new perspectives and formats in the context of curatorial practices. The OnCurating Academy Berlin is an international postgraduate programme and platform that aims to strengthen the community of emerging curators, artists, and cultural workers.
The focus of the series builds upon the platform and the OnCurating postgraduate programme, and aligns with goal of (further) developing cooperative and interdisciplinary working methods. Curating means the creation of innovative structures toward the presentation of cultural artefacts through collaboration. In curatorial practice, art, digital media, design and architecture overlap in new ways that require constant reflection.
Cast
Talk
Vanina Saracino
Biographien
Vanina Saracino is an independent curator, film programmer, writer, and lecturer whose work focuses on art practices that challenge anthropocentric and binary worldviews, with a particular emphasis on lens-based and time-based media. Saracino has curated exhibitions internationally, including two editions of the Screen City Biennial: Other Minds (Berlin, 2022) and Ecologies – Lost, Found and Continued (Stavanger, 2019). Since 2021, Saracino has been a lecturer at the Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin.
Language
In English
Credits
Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz - die tageszeitung, tip Berlin.
Vanina Saracino: "Our best machines are made of sunshine: post-carbon imaginaries and the solar energy transition"
In this talk, Saracino examines post-carbon imaginaries through the lens of art, focusing on the idea of human metabolic independence in the shift from fossil fuels to solar energy. By reframing technology as part of a shared ‘natureculture’ continuum, she asks how we might reconsider our relationship with energy—not as a purely technological challenge, but as a cultural, political, and ecological transformation. Drawing on curatorial methods, Saracino weaves connections between diverse artworks and ideas, using speculative thinking, situated knowledge, and storytelling to reimagine our entanglement with energy and the sun.
The series ‘Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice’ by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter, continues at Radialsystem from December 2024, carving out space for critical curatorial thinking as well as new perspectives and formats in the context of curatorial practices. The OnCurating Academy Berlin is an international postgraduate programme and platform that aims to strengthen the community of emerging curators, artists, and cultural workers.
The focus of the series builds upon the platform and the OnCurating postgraduate programme, and aligns with goal of (further) developing cooperative and interdisciplinary working methods. Curating means the creation of innovative structures toward the presentation of cultural artefacts through collaboration. In curatorial practice, art, digital media, design and architecture overlap in new ways that require constant reflection.
Cast
Talk
Vanina Saracino
Biographies
Vanina Saracino is an independent curator, film programmer, writer, and lecturer whose work focuses on art practices that challenge anthropocentric and binary worldviews, with a particular emphasis on lens-based and time-based media. Saracino has curated exhibitions internationally, including two editions of the Screen City Biennial: Other Minds (Berlin, 2022) and Ecologies – Lost, Found and Continued (Stavanger, 2019). Since 2021, Saracino has been a lecturer at the Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin.
