Online Course by OnCurating Academy Berlin with Vanina Saracino
Lecturer: Vanina Saracino
Course dates: 13.12 + 20.12.2025, 2– 6 pm (CET)
Maximum participants: 20
Fee: EUR 250
Enrol here until Dec 12, 2025
Futuring Otherwise: Curating in the Anthropocene
Departing from the planetary urgencies of the Anthropocene and the limitations of anthropocentric knowledge systems, this course foregrounds the role of curatorial and artistic research in shaping futures as open-ended processes of imagining, sensing, and co-creating. We will ask: How can art intervene in dominant visions of the future? What kinds of speculative tools, temporalities, and visual languages emerge from ecological and more-than-human worldviews? And what might it mean to think through the Anthropocene not only as a crisis of the present, but as a terrain for designing livable and equitable futures? Focusing on posthumanist and ecocritical approaches across a range of media, we will examine how artists and curators adopt interdisciplinary perspectives (often informed by scientific knowledge) to resist entrenched dualisms (nature/culture, human/nonhuman, organic/inorganic), and instead propose alternative narratives of co-existence, kinship, transformation, and transcendence.
Vanina Saracino (she/they) is an independent curator, film programmer, writer, and lecturer. Her work focuses on theories and art practices that question anthropocentric and binary worldviews from an intersectional perspective, with an emphasis on lens-based and time-based art. Since 2021, Saracino has been serving as an adjunct professor of Experimental Film and Media Art at Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin, alongside Prof. Nina Fischer.
Preparation for the course:
To ensure a smooth experience, please use a headset (or headphones) and choose a quiet place with a stable internet connection. You will receive access to the required reading materials after booking the course; please review them in advance.
Procedure
This intensive, two-part live course will be conducted via Zoom on two consecutive Saturdays from 2:00 to 6:00 PM CEST. Please prepare a brief introduction of yourself and your projects (3-5 minutes). The first session will focus on an in-depth introduction to the topic and workshop research. Assignments for the second session will be provided at the end of the first session. In the second session, you will receive feedback and evaluations. Upon successful completion, you will be awarded a certificate worth 1 ECTS credit.
Technical instructions
Download the Zoom application. You will find a detailed installation guide here. Zoom can also be accessed through a browser on Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone, Android tablet, or Android phone. You will receive a Zoom invitation with a link to join the workshop.
Image: Patricia Domínguez, Matrix Vegetal (2022). Installation view at SCB – Screen City Biennial Other Minds, at Archenhold Sternwarte (Berlin, 2022). Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza.
