With Jonathon Keats
Saturday, February 15
1 – 4pm
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Free with entry to exhibition
Reservation required
With Jonathon Keats
Saturday, February 15
1 – 4pm
RSVP FOR WORKSHOP
Free with entry to exhibition
Reservation required
Standard time is measured on atomic clocks, providing a technical basis for global transactions. Might local ecosystems be more meaningful timekeepers? Might their natural cycles encourage us to nurture our environment and the relationships that matter most?
In this indoor/outdoor workshop at Avenue 12 Gallery and on Mountain Lake in the San Francisco Presidio, artist Jonathon Keats will guide participants through the process of making an annual watershed calendar based on careful observation and documentation of liminal phenomena.
Jonathon Keats is an experimental philosopher, artist, and writer whose transdisciplinary projects explore all aspects of society, adapting methods from the sciences and the humanities. He is the author of six books on subjects ranging from science and technology to art and design – most recently You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future, published by Oxford University Press – and is the author of a weekly online arts column for Forbes. He is a research associate at the University of Arizona’s College of Fine Arts, a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Biofrontiers Institute and San José State University’s CADRE Laboratory for New Media, a fellow at the Berggruen Institute, a research fellow at the Highland Institute and the Long Now Foundation, principal philosopher at Earth Law Center, and an artist-in-residence at the SETI Institute and Biosphere 2. He co-directs the Consortium for Climate-Adapted Architectural Heritage at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics. A monograph about his artwork, Thought Experiments, was recently published by Hirmer Verlag. His newest book, A Field Guide to More-Than-Human Governance, is forthcoming from the Berggruen Press in 2025.
This event is part of a series of programming for the immersive exhibition THE END OF YOU.
Attend lectures, workshops, and guided tours to learn more about the exhibition.