Presentations and public discussion with artist and researcher Michelle-Marie Letelier (Chile). Through her diverse artistic practice, Letelier explores the intersections between art, science, technology, and environmentalism in times of unveiled globalization and the increasing scarcity of raw materials.

Organization / curation: C.A.S.A. / Avtonomi Akadimia
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In collaboration with:
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Inspired by juxtaposed historical contexts, Letelier’s drawings, installations, videos and sculptures encompass orchestrated transformations of minerals alongside extensive research into the landscapes where their exploitation and speculation take place.

Michelle-Marie Letelier spent her early life in Chuquicamata, the world’s largest open-pit copper mine located in the middle of the Atacama Desert in Chile. When this town was to be buried due to new mining policies, Letelier returned to document this process—a pivotal moment that ushered in her practice.

Since then, Letelier has been exploring commodity compounds, their properties and energy productions, enabling situations in which the basic structures are carefully combined and led by physical methods into significant states or applied directly into her work.

Michelle-Marie Letelier (Chile, 1977) lives and works in Berlin.
She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2000 and has participated in postgraduate programmes such as Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT (Berlin) and as guest student in the Experimental Media Design studies at the Universität der Künste (Berlin).

Her work has been shown internationally in galleries, museums and institutions, including: El Museo de Los Sures (New York); Stiftelsen 3,14 (Bergen); Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (Santiago); Cini Foundation (Venice); Errant Bodies (Berlin); Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago); Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda (Santiago) and September Gallery (Berlin).

Her videos have been exhibited in international screenings and festivals, including the Mercosur Biennial (Porto Alegre); East Asia Contemporary Art Space (Shanghai) and X Video and Media Arts Biennial (Santiago).

Letelier has obtained grants from the IFA-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Stuttgart) and Berliner Senate, also awarded the ORA Prize (Italy).

She has participated in a residency at ISCP (New York) and Plataforma Editable Programme in Santiago, Valparaíso and the Tarapacá region in Chile.

Michelle-Marie Letelier participated in Radio Schizoanalytique – Transmissions from the Fold, a discursive radio event initiated by Angela Melitopoulus and Angela Anderson in Berlin in 2015, which took the anti-mining movement in Halkidiki, Northern Greece, against the “low-cost” Canadian gold mining company Eldorado Gold as a starting point to unfold a multi-layered critical perspective on extractivism and to propose alternative, sustainable futures. For more information and recordings please visit http://www.radio-schizoanalytique.net/

In 2017 she will undergo a residency at USF Verftet in Norway, unfolding a new project based on living marine resources.

Website: www.michellemarieletelier.net