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Past Event
in partnership with Paul Mellon Centre
The arts have long been concerned with highlighting the ongoing histories of resource extraction and its repercussions. This two-day symposium asks: what happens next?
The arts have long been concerned with highlighting the ongoing histories of resource extraction and its repercussions. This event brings together researchers, artists, designers and activists from a range of backgrounds to consider local projects in intersectional, granular detail. Collectively, we will reevaluate the relationship between the arts, extraction and activism - both historically and in the present.
The symposium will be structured into three interrelated strands:
• Colonial and extractive histories: How are long-standing systems of racial capitalism and colonial oppression linked to the current financialisation of nature (using nature for profit maximisation)? What alternatives to these exploitive structures can be imagined, tested and shared in the arts?
• Reparative and fragile ecologies: Reparations for ecological collapse and environmental loss cannot be simply about financial compensation but must include broader systemic changes. What can reparative ecologies look like? How can they be mobilised?
• Environmental justice and legal rights: What roles can the arts play in enacting environmental justice? Can the arts inform and participate in policymaking on topics such as the rights of communities affected by ecocide and extractive capitalism, the rights of nature and the rights of future generations? And how might that intersect with calls to abolish or radically reimagine existing legal and justice systems?
We will update this page in the coming weeks with the full conference schedule, timings and access information. If you have any questions, get in touch at info@autograph-abp.co.uk
This symposium is convened by Sria Chatterjee (Paul Mellon Centre), Mark Sealy (Autograph) and Bindi Vora (Autograph).
A project led by Paul Mellon Centre, providing a testing ground for transhistorical conversations and collaborations between art historians, artists and other scholarly and community groups thinking critically about the interconnected and enduring histories of colonialism, capitalism and climate change.
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Locating Environmental Justice
Chair: Ravi Agarwal (artist, writer, curator and environmental campaigner)
Imaging Extraction
Chair: Sria Chatterjee (Paul Mellon Centre)
Repair/Reparations
Chair: Bindi Vora (Autograph)
Ecology Politics
Chair: Mark Sealy (Autograph)
Forest Rights
Chair: Ravi Agarwal (artist, writer, curator and environmental campaigner)
Ancestral Futures
Chair: Nina Kolowratnik (Ghent University)
Litigation / Climate Crimes
Chair: Jelena Sofronijevic (producer, writer and researcher)
Data Ecologies
Chair: Stephanie Hankey (Curator and Co-founder, Tactical Tech)
Joining us in person? The Building Centre has level entry, accessible toilets, a low level reception desk without barriers, and induction loops. Assistance animals are welcome.For full visiting and access information, click here.
The livestream will have auto-generated captioning.
If you would like BSL interpretation, please contact us at least 2 weeks prior to the conference.
16 February – 1 June at Autograph, London
Visual meditations on the environmental crisis in the Niger Delta
16 February – 1 June at Autograph, London
Interweaving indigenous knowledge, colonial legacy and ecological urgency
Extractivism/Activism will take place over two days: Wednesday 13 March and Thursday 14 March. Tickets are available separately for each day of the conference, both in person and online. If you would like to attend the full, two-day event, you must book a separate ticket for each day.
If you need to cancel your ticket for any reason, you can receive a refund up to 1 week before the start of the conference. You do not need to bring your paper ticket to the event.
Banner image: Wilfred Ukpong, By And by, I Will Carry This Burden of Hope, Till the Laments of my Child is Heard #2, 2017. From the series Blazing Century 1: Niger-Delta/Future-Cosmos. Courtesy of the artist and Blazing Century Studios. About the project: Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Itzamná - Mayan Time deity, 2021. From the series Digital Clouds Don’t Carry Rain. Courtesy the artist.
Part of the exhibitions: 1) Wilfred Ukpong, Strongly, We Believe In the Power of this Motile Thing That Will Take Us There #2, 2017. From the series Blazing Century 1: Niger-Delta/Future-Cosmos. Courtesy of the artist and Blazing Century Studios. 2) Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Ixchel - Mayan Moon and Birth deity, 2021. From the series Digital Clouds Don’t Carry Rain. © and courtesy the artist.
Accessibility: The Building Centre, May 2022 by Chris Jackson. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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