The Suwalki Corridor, a 65-kilometer-wide strip of territory linking Poland with Lithuania, is considered NATO's most vulnerable choke point along its eastern flank. In the event of a conflict, a foreign army could attempt to close the corridor and incapacitate NATO as a security provider for its three Baltic members. Using this particular situation as a metaphor, Robin Hinsch captured Europe's most potential conflict zone.
The photographer found a region that was shaped not only by a potential threat but also by intense
agriculture, droughts, a changing climate. In the third edition of our talk series „Entering the Anthropocene“ will talk about the security implications of major environmental threats such as climate change and ecological breakdown. We will discuss how societies make sense of catastrophes that are certain but seem distant, explore what role art plays in times of a global environmental change and talk about language and images in the Anthropocene – the age of humans.
Our guests will be Robin Hinsch, photographer, Wolfgang Wopperer-Beholz from the core team of the London-based environmental NGO Extinction Rebellion and political scientist Delf Rothe from the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Hamburg. The talk series is hosted by Fritz Habekuß, DIE ZEIT, and it will take place on June 13 2019, 18:30 at the artspace Âme Nue, Schaarsteinwegsbrücke 2, Hamburg.