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Ecological Translation

Goethe-Institut Athen
April 28-May 30, 2026

Ecological Translation asks how climate change might be imagined differently if humans could speak directly with animals, plants and the natural world. Drawing on Michel Serres's call to ecologise the civil subject of law, the project takes up new developments in bioacoustics and AI that promise a "google translate" for interspecies communication—technologies already reshaping how whale migration, coral reefs and birdsong inform climate response. Bringing together experts across law, science, technology, policy and art, the symposium and exhibition interrogate what is at stake when the radical alterity of nonhuman life is rendered into the idiom of English syntax. Ecological translation names both this speculative promise of interspecies communication and the ecology that emerges through the correspondence of different disciplinary imaginations of nature. Presented at Goethe-Institut Athens, the project stages an interdisciplinary encounter with the opportunities and threats of new technoscientific approaches to the unfolding climate crisis.

Further details available at www.ecologicaltranslation.com

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To everything spurn, spurn, spurn

Frieze: No. 9 Cork Street
Hosting Artwin Gallery
October 10-25, 2025

Curated by Slavs & Tatars and Asya Yaghmurian, this exhibition of works by eight artists explores notions of disdain and contempt. Invoking the Peter Seeger song made famous by The Byrds in 1965, ‘Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)’, these newly commissioned paintings, watercolours and sculptures ask what it means to kick back, whether against a lover or an epoch. The artists: Javkhlan Ariunbold, Akhmat Bikanov, Bakhyt Bubikanova, Saule Dyussenbina, Nuriia Nurgalieva, Yuma Radne, Shamil Shaaev, Slavs & Tatars, and Alexander Volkov - all hail from Central Asia and the Caucasus, a region currently in the cultural spotlight.

Photo by Stephen James.

Photo by Stephen James.

Photo by Stephen James.