KOSTAS STASINOPOULOS: Back to Earth
Channel: Hope Recycling Station
Date: 2022-03-18

TRANSPARENT EYEBALL presents Kostas Stasinopoulos on occasion of Transdisciplinary symposium LIFE DISCUSSIONS in the Center for Contemporary Arts Prague on March 12, 2022.

Kostas Stasinopoulos is a curator and writer working at the intersection of art, ecology and identity. He is Associate Curator, Live Programmes at Serpentine, London, focusing on Back to Earth and General Ecology. He served as Associate Curator at The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center and has collaborated with the Whitechapel Gallery, White Cube, Frieze, Art Athina and the Athens Biennale. Kostas received his PhD in History of Art from University of York (2016) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Onassis Foundation and NEON. He holds an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2011) and a BSc in Biochemistry from Imperial College London (2004). Together with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine, he is the co-editor of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth (Penguin, 2021).

Transparent Eyeball is a Transdisciplinary collaborative practice steered by artist Adam Vackar and evolutionary zoologist Jindrich Brejcha. We are currently based in Prague. The mission of Transparent Eyeball is to encourage awareness of biological processes, or meaningful responses to environmental issues. We achieve this by facilitating a dialogue between leading visual artists, art theorists, and scientists. While seeking to raise awareness on complexity of life, we engage audiences with panel discussions, lectures and talks. Our current major interests span environmental concerns to color producing mechanisms and their perception. If even possible we would like to mediate and facilitate not only understanding, but also affinity of general public towards nature and life.

Life Discussions is an Interdisciplinary symposium to discuss how art and culture can co-exist, complement each other, and help to disseminate knowledge and understanding on biological problems. Life Discussions aims to bring new perspectives on how artists, art theorists and biologists can engage together in a collaborative insight into the relation between biological principles that drive our own creativity and our need to communicate. We want to build our understanding on solutions that life on Earth offers.

Today’s environmental issues are often complex. Finding effective strategies that encourage public awareness and stewardship are paramount for long-term conservation of species and ecosystems. Artists and biologists combined approach thrives to disseminate knowledge about ecology to non-specialists through novel art-science participatory research. 

We invited internationally renowned scientists, artists and art theorists to discuss the evolutionary driven process of art-making as well as to show that humans are inseparable part of the natural world and share planet with other beings with completely different interests and perception. 

Transparent Eyeball is a project of Hope Recycling Station and is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture Czech Republic and the Prague City Hall.