What forms does presence take when the world and its technologies exceed what can be explained, known, or felt? How to re-imagine human, non-human and synthetic life on this planet today?

Join artist Marilou Schultz and others at the Hartwig Art Foundation two-day gathering, Extreme Presence.

Extreme Presence gathers artists, thinkers and practitioners to Amsterdam for a programme of talks, performances, interventions and workshops. Focusing on presence as a practice, a problem and a responsibility, the weekend asks questions currently shaping art and advanced technology. One concerns a “devotional turn” in contemporary culture: how theology, mysticism and contemplative traditions offer new avenues to navigate planetary and cultural instability. The gathering also investigates the multiple histories of technology itself, from Traditional Ecological Knowledge to interspecies communication, and what these histories open up for those working between art and computation.

Saturday 24 Oct.

2 – 3.30 p.m. at Hartwig Proxy
Presentations and conversation: Technologies of Interrelation, with Elizabeth LaPensée*, Fainos Mangena, Marilou Schultz and Lua Vollaard, moderated by Diana Campbell.
On philosophies and ethics of interrelation, and what kinds of technologies can be built on different foundations.

Sunday 25 Oct.

11 a.m. – 2 p.m. and 3 – 6 p.m. at Parnassus 212
Weaving workshop with Marilou Schultz.
For participants 13 years and older. Booking required. This hands-on weaving workshop brings together centuries-old weaving techniques with contemporary technology and formal experimentation.