Nadine Gouders
Nadine Gouders is an ideals-led cultural worker supporting artists, designers and cultural institutions in the realization of projects. She’s worked for several Dutch museums as a curator, project manager and registrar, shaping her as a researcher and ally in the production of artistic work and exhibitions. Her practice is connected by projects with a sensibility for social-political developments and impacts felt by the humans and non-humans she works and co-exists with.
Training for the Future is a utopian training camp where audiences become trainees to exercise in alternative futures. The 2022 edition, titled We Demand a Million More Years, focussed on chronopolitics: the politics of time in a moment we are out of time. Artists, philosophers, activists as well as non-human presences led trainings on time travel, deep listening, radical slowness, the subconscious present and plant based time to reclaim the means of production of our future.
The constructive elements of the training camp itself carried different temporal marks, all interconnected: ammonite fossils, a family of octopus and squid that went extinct in the 5th mass extinction 66 million years ago; defunct synthetic tires, that stand for an industry and an economic boom—the so-called “Italian miracle”—and its subsequent crisis that is a recent archeology of the larger Turin region; and finally hardened oil, the fossil inheritance whose combustion fuels the destruction of common futures. Assembled in sculptural configurations and functional training support systems, these elements together give shape to a chronopolitical arena, in which the living worlds stored in fossils are conceived not only as witnesses, but as trainers in their own right: no one can teach you what a million more years is, but a million years itself.
A project by Jonas Staal, curated and co-programmed by Florian Malzacher.
28.06.2022 - 30.06.2022
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin