Скачать или смотреть Sheltering Places Season 02 Episode 02. June 9, 2020

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On June 9, The New Centre aired another episode of our public program, Sheltering Places, titled "Disputed Territories & Epistemic Mediation," with guests Godofredo Pereira and Susan Schuppli, moderated by The New Centre Researcher Andrew Copolov.

Disputed Territories & Epistemic Mediation:
One of the central struggles facing those working to alleviate climate change and habitat destruction is how to represent the environment. Each available method of representation stems from and informs attendant epistemic perspectives. Oftentimes, these different ways of knowing are widely divergent. In cases of environmental or territorial disputes, disparate agencies are drawn together in often violent ways. Beyond physical confrontation, it is in the space of representation that these disputes are negotiated. In this discussion, we will address the representational agency of the very territories that are being damaged - as well as the agencies of their inhabitants.

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As the world gets out of the pandemic-related lockdowns and many cities begin the process of reopening, galleries and museums have also begun their own preparation for returning to business. But can we really return to the old business as usual? After months of closures, cancellations, and Zoom conversations, to what kind of normalcy in contemporary art are we returning? Is there reopening of art institutions an opportunity to address some of the problems endemic to the production and traffic of global contemporary art? Does our situation provide us a chance to think about how to remake a better world for art and artists?


Sheltering Places first emerged as a response to the sudden disappearance of social interactions such as small talk at parties and heated discussions after lectures and conferences that all of us have been avoiding now in the hope of stopping the spread of COVID-19. Following the success of our previous season, we decided to continue compensating for this loss of casual exchange of ideas by creating online spaces that allow for a variety of conversation topics. As an online institution that has experimented with many different forms of knowledge production and communication across the globe since 2014, The New Centre can put this experience to use in the service of public good. As we confront the sense of urgency that pervades our world, Sheltering Places is meant to be a place for discussing and thinking together. We provide a Zoom-based format to stage informal conversations between invited guests while facilitating active contributions by a diverse community composed of The New Centre’s Instructors, Researchers, Students, and Members.

We are now several months into the COVID-19 pandemic and the future seems more uncertain than ever before. Building on the previous season, Sheltering Places will turn to look beyond and beside the pandemic while remaining attuned to its reality. The variable political, social and physical constraints that the current situation imposes also foreground the importance of thinking about other kinds of change - rapid and unexpected, slow and expected, etc - that may or may not be tied directly to the immediacy of COVID-19. The second season of Sheltering Places will confront a broad range of weekly themes pertaining to current plights and future uncertainties from different philosophical, theoretical, and cultural angles to discuss and deploy ideas that tie local particularities to a global discussion. With this, we hope to contribute to emerging vocabularies for speaking about recent and upcoming changes to social and political life in the purview of art, philosophy and politics.

The second season of Sheltering Places will remain an opportunity for informal discussion, but each session will have a smaller number of panelists to allow them to articulate their thoughts in more depth and to leave more time for questions from viewers.

The New Centre has always tried to be a place for intellectual activities that are unrestricted by geography, facilitating rather than subsuming other forms of interaction and networking. In this case, we are essentially using our platform to make sure that social life continues despite the limitations imposed by COVID-19.

We will be posting the participation links here: for those who would like to enter the discussion with us and those who merely would like to watch.