Promoting dialogue between the arts and sciences in North Rhine-West­phalia – that is the goal of the new fellow­ship programme launched by the Kunst­stif­tung NRW in colla­bo­ra­tion with the Centre for Life Ethics (Univer­sity of Bonn) and the Insel Hombroich Foun­da­tion.

The first public presen­ta­tion of the fellow­ship programme Workshop of Arts and Sciences will take place as an all-day parcours at the Hombroich Rake­ten­sta­tion: as a spatially diver­si­fied coll­ec­tion of materials, as an exhi­bi­tion spread across the grounds.

The starting point for the artistic works, discourse sketches and theo­re­tical reflec­tions of the eight fellows created for this occasion is the image of the ‘tipping point’. The point of no return, after which ever­y­thing will be different (even if we may not yet realise it): tipping points of global warming, of species extinc­tion; tipping points between humans and non-humans, between genders, between the global North and the global South. Tipping points in our under­stan­ding of enligh­ten­ment, modernity and progress. Tipping points that are often a matter of perspec­tive.

The explo­ra­tion of these topics within the framework of the fellow­ship programme forms the basis for a trans­di­sci­pli­nary dialogue that will be made public on this day – in the form of a working meeting, a presen­ta­tion and a cele­bra­tion. You are cordially invited to move freely through the area and drama­turgy with a map in hand: What overlaps between the works emerge? How do they enrich each other, how do they change when juxta­posed?

The complete programme can be found here