UnNatural History Talk: Visual artist Tania Kovats in conversation with Adelaide Bannerman
UnNatural History talk: Visual artist Tania Kovats in conversation with Invisible Dust Associate Curator, Adelaide Bannerman
Tania Kovats. Between 8 and 18. Courtesy, the artist.
Tania Kovats will be in conversation with Adelaide Bannerman, discussing her commission for the exhibition, which features artefacts from the artists’ own personal natural history collection. The event will include a screening of Kovat’s short film made in collaboration with Benjamin Wigley, hiber nation, 2021 (duration 9 mins 28 secs).
Tania Kovats, Crow, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Parafin Gallery, London. Courtesy of the artist and Parafin Gallery, London.
In UnNatural History artists and naturalists from across the globe explore the role of the artist as an intrinsic part of the science of natural history - enabling our modern understanding of ecology, climate change, extinction, and threats to biodiversity.
The observational skills and techniques of artists, including their speculations, have enabled the development of the biological sciences since their inception. We learnt about plants and animals through drawings long before the advancements of technologies such as microscopes and photography.
UnNatural History features over 20 international artists working in Aotearoa New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, Germany, India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Singapore, Turkey, UK and USA. It includes four newly commissioned works responding to the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum’s own natural sciences collection by Frances Disley, Dubmorphology, Tania Kovats and Gözde Ilkin.
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