Climate & Colonialism
The Climate & Colonialism project works towards new and interdisciplinary understandings of visual and material culture produced around and in response to the interrelated and enduring histories of colonialism, capitalism and climate change. Bringing together a range of media – including painting, sculpture, video, performance, architecture and photography – and time periods –, this project takes an intersectional approach in which overlapping systems of oppression are considered in dialogue with the past, present and future.
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A multi-year project aiming to provide a testing ground for transhistorical conversations
Project DescriptionClimate & Colonialism
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Providing a space for discussion and reflection about the role of the arts and visual cultures in discourses around climate and colonialism
Reading GroupThe Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
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Sria Chatterjee, Head of Research and Learning at the Paul Mellon Centre
Project LeadSria Chatterjee
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Visiting Scholars
Astrida Neimanis and Ravi Agarwal
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Working Group
The Climate & Colonialism Working Group
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The arts have long been concerned with highlighting the ongoing histories of resource extraction and its repercussions. This symposium asks: what next?
Event InformationExtractivism/Activism: Art, Activism and Ecological Extraction
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This multi-day symposium explored the bonds between gender and environmental justice.
Event InformationResist, Persist: Gender, Climate and Colonialism
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This symposium explored the complex past, problematic present and possible futures of plastic.
Event InformationSynthetic Histories: Plastics, Climate and Colonialism