Conceptual and iinstallation artist Lena von Goedeke is Artist in Residence in the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden residency program from May to October 2024. To kick off her research residency, she and literary scholar Svenja Engelmann-Kewitz from TU Dresden (TUD) will discuss the significance of the Arctic in the context of the climate crisis and extreme futures.

Since early May, Lena von Goedeke has been conducting creative research at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden on the central theme of “Data↔Worlds. Socio-technical and cultural syntheses of new realities” and is exploring current Arctic research. Her residency focuses on the potentials and challenges of various remote sensing technologies. For several years now, von Goedeke has been collecting information and thoughts on the ethical and technological aspects of generating images of the world using satellites.

Svenja Engelmann-Kewitz is working as part of the “Disrupt! Research” project at TUD’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences on her doctoral project on contemporary literature in the circumpolar North, for which she completed a research stay at the Glacier Lab at the University of Oregon in 2023. The event is being held in cooperation with TUD's Department of Speculative Transformation and the TUDiSC Excellence measure as part of the exhibition “Designing Futures Together: Visionary Realities” in COSMO at the Kulturpalast Dresden. The discussion will be moderated by Gwendolin Kremer, curator of the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden and research associate at TUD's Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections.

The Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden and Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden are both part of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, where the complex relationship between humans, machines, technology and the world is explored and presented from the perspectives of the social sciences, humanities and art. As part of the 2024 Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden and the international academic heritage conference “Shaping Transformation. University Collections in a Changing World,” Lena von Goedeke will provide an insight into her process-based artistic research at TU Dresden from September 27 in the Gallery of the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections in TUD's Görges Building, including existing works on the subject of the Arctic. The results of the artistic and scientific collaboration will be made visible with the help of exemplary objects from the university's teaching and research collections.

Related links

• Information on the Artist in Residence program: https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/schauflerlab/schaufler-residency
• Information on the main topic of the 2^nd phase of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden: https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/schauflerlab/einfuehrung/phase-2-2024-2027
• THE SCHAUFLER FOUNDATION: www.the-schaufler-foundation.de

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