Entangling Art, Activism and Everyday life in the Capitalocene
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), the UN climate scientists not known for their radical imagination, wrote in their 2018 report that if we want to avoid the worst of the climate breakdown we had 12 years left for “rapid, far reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society”. In a time of historical crises, is it enough to continue to represent the world, to make more performances about climate breakdown, more videos about forced migration, more installations about mass extinctions? How can art be anchored again, to place, time and everyday life ? How can our practice be a magical force of transformation rather than another commodity on a market ?
Presented by Castlefield Gallery, this workshop by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination will share stories and adventures in between art and activism and explore how art can become a means not an end in the battle of imagination that traverses this epoch.
Time: 14:00 BST
