Hope and Fear: Climate Change and the Arts
TUESDAY 22 MARCH / 11AM–1PM / BOOK HERE
Dr Mariagiulia Grassilli, Visual and Cultural Anthropology
In particular this workshop will address 3 main strands:
• Anthropocene – through photography and film projects, in particular the work by Edward Burtynsky and the Anthropocene project, together with Nicholas De Pencier and Jennifer Baichwal – investigating also the roles of cultural institutions and global exhibitions. The film Anthropocene: the Human Epoch as well as others by Burtynsky will be part of the reflections through image, of how natural and social environments are interconnected.
• The Centre for Creative Ecologies and the scholarship led by T.J. Demos that investigate the complex relationship between political ecology and artistic experimental visual practice. In particular we will explore John Akomfrah’s cinematic entanglements of racial capitalism with environmental threats, the visual politics of climate refugees and the moving images of Afrofuturist climate justice. Here artists challenge the metaphors of environment and ecology to embrace other spheres of life and activity.
• Indigenous media activism and visual practices of resistance through video and collective performances, direct action, Artivism. We will here refer for instance to the South Dakota #NoDAPL video activism project – Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock, as well as The Red Deal, indigenous action of the Red Nation and earlier strategic use of videos such as the Kayapo media performance at the World Bank protest in the 80s.
TUESDAY 22 MARCH / 11AM–1PM / BOOK HERE
Dr Mariagiulia Grassilli, Visual and Cultural Anthropology
In particular this workshop will address 3 main strands:
• Anthropocene – through photography and film projects, in particular the work by Edward Burtynsky and the Anthropocene project, together with Nicholas De Pencier and Jennifer Baichwal – investigating also the roles of cultural institutions and global exhibitions. The film Anthropocene: the Human Epoch as well as others by Burtynsky will be part of the reflections through image, of how natural and social environments are interconnected.
• The Centre for Creative Ecologies and the scholarship led by T.J. Demos that investigate the complex relationship between political ecology and artistic experimental visual practice. In particular we will explore John Akomfrah’s cinematic entanglements of racial capitalism with environmental threats, the visual politics of climate refugees and the moving images of Afrofuturist climate justice. Here artists challenge the metaphors of environment and ecology to embrace other spheres of life and activity.
• Indigenous media activism and visual practices of resistance through video and collective performances, direct action, Artivism. We will here refer for instance to the South Dakota #NoDAPL video activism project – Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock, as well as The Red Deal, indigenous action of the Red Nation and earlier strategic use of videos such as the Kayapo media performance at the World Bank protest in the 80s.