PRESS RELEASE | 14 February 2022

The Humboldt Experiment

Humboldt research meets contemporary art: In this new lecture series, entitled The Humboldt Experiment, Brazilian director Mirah Laline will stage a series of performance lectures centred around the life and work of Alexander von Humboldt. In these six evening events, a number of artists will come together with researchers from the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften to make Alexander von Humboldt’s scientific legacy a truly sensory experience. The opening event will be presented on 17 March by media artist Nelson Vergara and Humboldt expert Tobias Kraft. The focus of this performance encounter is Alexander von Humboldt’s ascent of the highest mountain in Ecuador: Chimborazo.

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Tobias Kraft, Head of the research project “Alexander von Humboldt on his travels – Science from Movement”
© Karla Fritze, Universität Potsdam
Nelson Vergara
© Vulkan Chimborazo / Nelson Vergara
Mirah Laline
© Marlen Stahlhuth
The measurement of the Chimborazo Mountain in Ecuador
© Die Bestimmung des Chimborazoblau / Nelson Vergara
Account of a stretch of land
© Aufnahme eines Landstriches / Nelson Vergara
Account of a stretch of land: an artistic-cartographic record of the Chimborazo Mountain in Ecuador
© Aufnahme eines Landstriches / Nelson Vergara