“Participants: Markus Gabriel, Iain Hamilton Grant, Frédéric Neyrat, Cord Riechelmann, Jason Wirth
The division of nature and culture is obsolete. Nature is us, and everything that surrounds us. Nature does and becomes, nature is subject and material at the same time. Nature is forever reconstituting itself after nature.
In their approach to transformed materials and images, their origins and interactions, the artists in nature after nature abandon distinctions between synthetic and organic, man-made and natural. They present a nature that impacts beyond its sensory manifestations. A nature whose varied interactions undermine our notions of space and time.
The refusal to distinguish between nature and culture and to accept the claim to universal validity of these categories is also addressed by current philosophical theories. The symposium nature after nature enquires how nature can be considered anew in space and time, materiality and immateriality.”