LI-MA Presents: A Missed Chance
New edition of LI-MA Presents, curated by guest curator Yannik Güldner. Join us for an evening of screenings and talks at LAB111.
Our guest-curated series returns with LI-MA Presents: A Missed Chance, an evening of thought-provoking screenings that probe humanity’s uncertain legacy and invite us to contemplate the significance—and limits—of human influence, as each piece sheds light on how our era may be remembered in the deep future.
What does it mean to leave a mark on the Earth—and who decides if it’s meaningful enough to last? LI-MA Presents: A Missed Chance is a curated screening responding to the recent decision by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) to reject the formal inclusion of the Anthropocene in the Geologic Time Scale. This decision raises a provocative question: in the grand scale of Earth’s history, how do we recognise the profound yet fleeting impact of human activity?
We invite viewers to explore our entanglement with planetary history beyond a human-centred perspective. How do decades of technological, industrial, and environmental change reshape landscapes meant to endure millennia? The selected works ask us to consider what stories remain of us when time stretches into deep, incomprehensible scales. The pieces move beyond documenting environmental degradation and open up pathways to other worlds, unveiling visions that question our sense of permanence.
Programme Details
Guest curator Yannik Güldner has selected works that explore moments where humanity’s influence brushes up against the sublime and the unknowable, inviting contemplation into how our actions shape not just the present but the deep future. In witnessing these works, we may begin to see the Anthropocene not as an era but as a rupture—a shift that reveals new realities while underscoring the impermanence of our human imprint.
Featured Works:
- Garagedoor December 2nd, Astrid van Nimwegen, 2013
- Der Geisterseher, Klaus vom Bruch, 1979
- As Above, So Below, Mark IJzerman & Sébastien Robert, 2021
- Grid Corrections (without titles), Gerco de Ruijter & Michel Banabila, 2016
- We Exhale, Tanja Engelberts, 2024
- Panorama Tata - A Plumed Serpent's View, Michiel van Bakel, 2024
And more TBA.
About the Curator
Yannik Güldner is an auto-didact curator and programmer based in The Hague, investigating the intersections of contemporary and popular culture. Aiming to question structures of power and society at large through the eyes of upcoming and renewed artists within their multidisciplinary practices. He is interested in creating narratives across the borders of disciplines that interlink art, science and academia with one another. By facilitating spaces that mediate between audience and artist through exchange and collective learning, he aims to contribute to the understanding of entangled environments.
Header image: Klaus vom Bruch, Der Geisterseher, 1979
