Open Lab Abend: Wer hat Angst vor Klima?

How can we approach climate emotions when climate change simultaneously eludes our cognitive understanding? Dr. Lea Luka Sikau, spokesperson for the Junge Akademie's sustainability working group, provides insights into her artistic research on climate anxiety, sound and vibration. Together with music therapists and psychologists, as well as the Junge Akademie, she is working on exhibitions and new operas on this topic, among other things.

After a short impulse and subsequent exchange, the participants will become active themselves: their own experiences with climate anxiety will be brought into an artistic form and perspectives will be changed. To this end, exercises from speculative fiction will be used and sound islands will be employed

Cooperation

A cooperation with the Junge Akademie, whose supporting academies are the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina e.V. - National Academy of Sciences - the latter is a partner of the Futurium.

Workshop leader

Dr. Lea Luka Sikau, artist, mezzo-soprano and sound scientist, works at the interface of ecology, opera and media art. She received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge and was a fellow at Harvard University. She was awarded the Bavarian Culture Prize for her research. She has worked with Romeo Castellucci, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Marina Abramović and Rimini Protokoll, among others. Institutions such as the Ars Electronica Festival, Transmediale and Climate Week NYC have commissioned her as a media artist for art installations and exhibitions. At the ZKM she heads the sound department and curates music and sound art. She has been a member of the Junge Akademie since 2025.

Information about

• Venue: Workshop Futurium Lab
• Admission: free of charge
• Registration is required.
• Remaining tickets are available on site.
• Event language: German
• Max. Number of participants: 20 people
• The event is aimed at people aged 16 and over.
• Duration: 3 hours
• Conditions of participation: no previous knowledge required

Accessibility

• We are a wheelchair-accessible venue.
• Seats without seating are available for wheelchair users.

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