Can you see me more clearly now?
Meet five women scientists from different corners of the world. Each was a pioneer. Each approached being a woman in a scientific discipline differently. Most have been ignored by the historical record, which habitually effaces women's successes.
This video-installation exhibit takes poetic action in the history of memory. It assigns value to the ignored and shines light on women's contributions.
Both the content and technique aim to be multi-perspectival. In each video, a forgotten scientist is brought 'back to life' through live painting, literary texts, voice, and music. Together these art forms summon viscerally the example of a pioneer.
The event at Plastico Gallery
Join us for the presentation of Can You See Me More Clearly Now?, a video installation dedicated to the Japanese geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi 猿橋 勝子, a pioneering scientist whose achievements, like those of so many women, have largely been overlooked by history.
The work is part of Remembering Women in Science, a series honouring five pioneering women scientists from different parts of the world. Through live painting, literary texts, voice and original music, each video brings a forgotten scientist vividly back to life.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with two members of the Berlin-based AGOSTO Artist Collective:
James Helgeson — Music
Composer, Professor of Music Studies and Composition, and Dean of the Barenboim-Said Akademie.
Dr Joseph Pearson — Text
Writer, historian and house essayist at Berlin’s Schaubühne Theatre, currently in Syros with the support of the European Union and the Goethe-Institut.
James will also speak about the music created for the installation.
At a time when women still represent fewer than 30% of the world’s scientists, remembering their contributions is not simply about correcting the past. It is about shaping the possibilities of the future.
AGOSTO is a Berlin-based multi-media and devising collective that formed in 2020 while working at the Schaubühne Theatre in Berlin. It is composed of Katharina Ziemke (painting and video), Ruth Rosenfeld (voice), Joseph Pearson (history and texts), and James Helgeson (music composition).
Language: English
Open to: Everyone
Entrance: Free