Extractivism/Activism: Art, Activism and Ecological Extraction
A collaboration between the Climate & Colonialism research project at the Paul Mellon Centre and Autograph ABP.
The arts have long been concerned with highlighting the ongoing histories of resource extraction and its repercussions. This symposium asks: what next? By bringing together researchers, artists, designers and activists from a range of backgrounds, these recordings consider local projects in intersectional, granular detail, to collectively re-evaluate the relationship between the arts, extraction and activism, both historically and in the present.
The two days are framed around three broad themes: Colonial and extractive histories; Reparative and fragile ecologies, and; Environmental justice and legal rights.
Day 1
Session 1: Locating Environmental Justice
With Sria Chatterjee, Ravi Garwal, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Hit Man Gurung, Syowia Kyambi, Sahar Qawasmi
Session 2: Imaging Extraction
With Sria Chatterjee, Tobah Aukland-Peck, Nancy Demerdash, FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Francisco Gallardo), and Crystal Bennes
Session 3: Repair/Reparations
With Bindi Vora, Gerald Torres, Sasha Huber, and Adrian Lahoud
Session 4: Ecology Politics
With Mark Sealy and Wilfred Ukpong
Day 2
Session 1: Forest Rights
With Ravi Agarwal, Eline Benjaminsen, Elias Kimaiyo, and Rahul Ranjan
Session 2: Ancestral Futures
With Ignacio Acosta, Godofredo Pereira and Gabriela Saenger Silva
Session 3: Litigation / Climate Crimes
With Jelena Sofronijevic, Marie Petersmann, Radha D’Souza, and Marie Smith
Session 4: Data Ecologies
With Stephanie Hankey, Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, and Julian Posada