Project

Climate and Colonialism Research Partnership

2023 - 2026

with the Paul Mellon Centre

What

Autograph are partnering with the Paul Mellon Centre as part of their project researching and sharing visual and material culture produced in response to histories of colonialism and climate change

Why

To provide a testing ground for transhistorical conversations and collaborations between the arts sector and other scholarly and community groups

ABOUT THE project

Autograph is delighted to be a partner on the Climate and Colonialism project led by Sria Chatterjee at the Paul Mellon Centre, working towards new and interdisciplinary understandings of British visual and material culture produced around and in response to the interrelated and enduring histories of colonialism, capitalism and climate change. Over the next three years, Autograph and the Paul Mellon Centre will collaborate on a series of events, publications and conversations that centre the relationship of the arts and environmental justice, starting with a collaboratively programmed conference taking place 13 - 15 March 2024. 

coming up

Call for Papers

We're inviting submissions for papers on the themes of colonial and extractive histories; reparative ecologies; environmental justice & legal rights, to be presented at next year's conference

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Conference Save the Date

Autograph and Paul Mellon Centre present a conference on the themes of Extractivism and Activism taking place in London, 13 - 15 March 2024. To be among the first to find out more and for tickets, join our newsletter

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project working group

The Climate and Colonialism project is led by Sria Chatterjee at the Paul Mellon Centre, working alongside a group of collaborators who will support and contribute to developing different interdisciplinary strands of the research project over the next three years. This working group includes Bindi Vora and Mark Sealy for Autograph, Debjani Bhattacharrya, Rachael Z. DeLue and Astrida Neimanis.

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Banner image: Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, from the series Digital Clouds Don't Carry Rain, 2021 –, © and courtesy the artist.