As part of the course RESIDENTIAL PRACTICES: The Monster of Karla, a lecture titled “Art and Planetary Care: Issues of Materiality and Sustainability in the Era of Climate Crisis” will be held on Monday, May 5th at 15:00, delivered by Daphne Dragona via Teams.

Daphne Dragona is an independent curator, theorist and writer based in Berlin and Athens. In her current work, she addresses the challenges of degrowth for art and culture, and studies the ambiguous role of technology in times of climate crisis. Dragona is teaching Theory of Curatorial Practices, Exhibition Design and History of Digital Art at the Department of Audiovisual Arts of the Ionian University. She is affiliated to Onassis Stegi as curatorial advisor, and has served as a jury member for the Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowships (Stuttgart), for the ARTWORKS, Fellowship for Greek Young Artists and Curators of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (Athens) and for numerous festivals and conferences. She worked as a curator for EMAF- European Media Art Festival (Onsabrück) from 2021 until 2023, and, earlier, for transmediale festival (Berlin) from 2015 until 2019. From 2001 until 2007 she was the general coordinator of medi@terra festival, organised by Fournos (Athens). She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens, an MA in Museum Studies from UCL, and a BA in Archaeology and History of Art from the University of Athens.

Note: The lecture will be delivered in Greek.