Sky Readings II, with Tania Safura Adam, Diego Blas and Elsa Casanova Sampé

As part of the programme associated with the exhibition Tabita Rezaire. Calabash Nebula and within the framework of the independent study programme Organism. Art in applied critical ecologies, a joint initiative between the Museo Thyssen and TBA21-Academy, the museum is hosting a conversation with Tania Safura Adam (journalist, curator and researcher), Elsa Casanova Sampé (artist) and Diego Blas (researcher in the Department of Physics at the UAB) on the historical intersections between science, culture and religion in concepts concerning the sky. Moderated by Marina Avia Estrada (TBA21) and María Buey González (Organismo).

Throughout history the skies have been interpreted and studied in countless ways by different communities and groups of people, with a resulting direct impact on the formation of their belief systems and socio-political structures. This conversation reassesses and analyses the meaning of these readings and how they are reflected in contemporary artistic and scientific interpretations of outer space.