Topologie dal network planetario: Note sulle "mostre di pensiero" di Peter Weibel e Bruno Latour

Abstract

Four exhibitions over a period of twenty years at the ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe marked the history of an interesting collaboration between curator and media theorist Peter Weibel and sociologist Bruno Latour, for what have been called their Gedankenausstellungen ('thought exhibitions'): Iconoclash (2002), Making Things Public (2005), Reset Modernity! (2016) and Critical Zones (2020). The choice of works becomes an instrument of analysis, participating - from the curators' point of view - in that ontological context of anti-hierarchical coexistence of entities of a completely different nature, be they human beings, animals, inanimate entities, chemical elements, geological elements, social constructs or, indeed, exhibitions; but also in a broader field of thought that in recent years has attempted to describe the complexity of the "new earthly politics", finding a support in artistic representation.