Daniel Wetzel is co-founder of the theatre label Rimini Protokoll, together with Helgard Haug and Stefan Kaegi. Over 20 years of activities on stages, streets and various kinds of urban sites, they have created over 300 different works, including: “World Climate Change Conference” (2015), which divided the audience into the 195 nations negotiating at each annual UN climate conference, practising the dynamics of running from meeting to meeting until the final declaration in the general assembly; the installation Win >< Win (2017) which puts us face to face with a swarm of jellyfish, those who would survive mankind and enjoy the rise in temperatures; and “The Conference of the Absent” in which the lecturers of the conference do not travel but their speeches are performed by spontaneous volunteers from the audience. 

Albert Moukheiber is a neuroscience researcher and clinical psychologist. He worked for 10 years at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital focusing on anxiety disorders and resilience and currently teaches clinical psychology and psychopathology at the University of Paris 8. He is co-founder of Chiasma, a structure that focuses on how we form our opinions and how this impacts our decision-making, including regarding climate change. Albert Moukheiber is also the author of “Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions” (Allary Editions).

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📷 Win >< Win (2017), Rimini Protokoll © David Parry

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Isa Melsheimer is a German artist whose artwork revolves around architectural and urban topics. One focus is modernist and postmodernist architecture and their underlying conceptions of human beings and nature, built space, and society. She finds inspiration for her work in literature, film, popular culture, and academic texts, including the American science theorist and feminist Donna J. Haraway, who foresees the need for new relationships and interferences between humans, machines, animals, and plants for life on the destroyed earth in the Chthulucene era. In 2022, the MAMAC, Nice devoted a solo exhibition to her practice, entitled “Compost”. Based in Berlin, she is represented by the galleries Esther Schipper and Jocelyn Wolff.

Tim Ingold is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013), The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology and/as Education (2018), Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018), Correspondences (2020) and Imagining For Real (2022).

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📷 Isa Melsheimer, Walherz, 2018. Courtesy of the artist

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Known for her impressive site-specific installations that allow the public to encounter art through nature, the Swiss artist Claudia Comte’s minimalist work mixes geometric painting and abstract sculpture. However, although seductive to the eye, her works question above all the memory of materials and their ecosystem. Thus, the wood she uses reminds us of the climatic evolution of the planet, making us aware of the modification of materials intrinsically linked to their ecosystem. Claudia Comte is represented by König Galerie and Gladstone Gallery.

Tom Battin has a doctorate in ecology and is a professor of environmental science at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), specialising in aquatic ecosystems. By demonstrating the role of microbial biofilms in river ecosystems, he has made the scientific community aware of the importance of inland waters in the global carbon cycle. Dominating microbial life, biofilms are an ancestral and multicellular life form of the Earth, which, by reproducing, contribute to the balance of ecosystems and the carbon cycle. His current research focuses on high mountain streams, and he leads the project “Vanishing Glacier – What Else Besides Water Is Lost?” at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). In 2018, Tom Battin was awarded the Start Prize, the highest Austrian award for young scientists.

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📷 Underwater Cacti, 2019, Alligator Head Foundation, Port Antonio, Jamaica. Courtesy of the artist and TBA21-Academy.

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