“Grey Matters” opening event

Stefanie Heine and Lilian Munk Rösing will introduce the Carlsberg Sember Ardens project “Grey Matters: Ecocritical Potentials of Lithic Aesthetics” and have a conversation with the artist Nana-Francisca Schottländer. 

Please join us in raising a glass to celebrate the beginning of four stonier years!

Arguing that the green transition needs to be expanded by a ‘grey turn’, our project aims at developing less anthropocentric, ethical sensitivities for stones through art and literature. To to so, we will trace a path from the 19th century to today and explore minor geographies of race and gender, while investigating interrelations between the material and sensual dimensions of art and stone. “Grey Matters” unpacks how aesthetic defamiliarization guards stones’ radical difference from humans without reducing them to objects for extractive industries.

At the opening event, the team, Stefanie Heine, Lilian Munk Rösing, Johanne Gormsen Schmidt, and Sebastian Ørtoft Rasmussen will introduce themselves and talk about the project. Afterwards, we will have a conversation with the artist Nana-Francisca Schottländer, whose work explores “the co-creative potentials of encounters between rocks and humans, and between stony and fleshy bodies”.

We invite you to join us in thinking and sensing lithic matters – drinks and snacks will be provided.