Climate Futures and Contemporary Art: 6 Curatorial Propositions
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| EAHR Concordia (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group) Climate Futures and Contemporary Art: 6 Curatorial Propositions |
Climate change art has been growing in significance as contemporary artists seek to generate new ways of seeing and engaging with the environmental crisis facing the Earth. Developed out of an art history graduate seminar on international art exhibitions at Concordia University, this symposium presents six curatorial propositions that address the question: How do we curate exhibitions of contemporary art addressing critical aspects of climate change in a way that is also mindful of being located on unceded Indigenous lands and waters?”
Free activity. Passes are available at the Ticket Counter as of 10 a.m. on the day of the activity.
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PROGRAM
10:00 AM Territorial Acknowledgement | Welcome to the Museum - Moridja Kitenge Banza, Educational Programs Officer, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
10:05 AM Opening Remarks - Prof. Alice Ming Wai Jim, Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art Histories, Professor of Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, Concordia University
10:15 AM Currents: Indigenous Responses to Water and the Climate Crisis
Nina Chabelnik, Maggie Hinbest, Antonia Kölbl, Ashley Raghubir, and Michelle Sones
In response to water currents and the current climate crisis, five Indigenous artists engage with ideas of water in their practice as a source of belonging, safety, and community – as a source of life. Currents articulates the need for Indigenous water sovereignty in Canada, through an exhibition, performances, talks, and action-oriented participatory public programming.
11:00 AM Ephemeral Environment: Encountering Water in the Digital Medium
Jacqueline Grassi
This project examines the work of the art collective, teamLab, in relation to the synthetic experience of nature through immersive digital installations. It will explore how new media mobilizes digital space to incorporate the viewer in the artwork and bring awareness to their position in relation to the people around them, inviting interaction within the museum.
11:45 AM Wearing the Land/scape Away: Consumption and the Environmental Crisis
Sara Shields-Rivard, Georges-Étienne Carrière, and Christa Nemnom
This project aims to create critical discussions around contemporary habits of consumption and their impacts on the landscape through a diverse range of artworks by Canadian artists of Indigenous, settler, and diasporic backgrounds, engaging directly and indirectly with the environmental crisis.
12:30 PM LUNCH BREAK
2:00 PM Vaster than Empires and More Slow
Madeline Bogoch
Predicated on the Ursula K. Le Guinn story of the same name, this project utilizes a selection of artworks to interrogate concepts of connectivity, sentience and globalization. Incorporating ideas from R. Buckminster Fuller to Mark Fisher— these works trace a history of our technologically mediated dynamic with the natural world and mobilize transtemporal fictions as a means to emancipate our future from the bleak derivatives that our current late-capitalist moment has laid out in front of us.
2:45 PM Seeds of Entanglement: Global Networks of the Doomsday Vault
Patricia Pérez Rabelo and Wanessa Cardoso de Sousa
Departing from the seed, the project traces the ways in which various local and global entanglements have been affected by the current climate crisis. the works discussed address, through the agency and resilience of seeds, the entangled geopolitical networks that arise through international trade of natural resources in different locales and their violent legacies.
3:30 PM Organic Beings & Technology: Imagining Fused Futures
Lucile Cordonnier, Serena Desaulniers, Sepideh Eghtedari, Lisa Massa
This exhibition aims to explore what happens when the binary of ‘organic’ vs. ‘technological’ is fused together by imagining tentative futures where these typically contradictory entities are enmeshed with one another. Through exploring the fusion of this binary, we hope to explore how this utopia allows one to reflect on the ongoings of the environmental crisis by learning to develop a relationship with the natural environment and the technological objects that inform our daily lives.
4:15 PM Plenary | Q & A
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