Art and Climate Change - book launch
Book launch of Art and Climate Change with authors Maja and Reuben Fowkes and artists Tuur van Balen, Sonia Levy and Himali Singh Soin. Published by Thames & Hudson as part of the World of Art series, Art and Climate Change is dedicated to artistic engagements with intensifying ecological breakdown.
Authors Maja and Reuben Fowkes write, '...when the future of life on earth is threatened, creative production for its own sake is not enough. Artists are calling for an active, collective rapprochement with the planet and the uncovering of the exploitative structures that threaten the survival of people, animals, plants and natural entities. Exploring the meeting point of decolonial reparation and ecological restoration, artists are drawing on activist praxes, ecological theories, scientific insights and indigenous worldviews to engage with the climate crisis. The book examines art practices that respond to the Anthropocene and its detrimental impact on the planet’s climate, from scenes of nature decimated by ongoing extinction events and landscapes turned to waste by extraction, to art coming out of the communities most affected by the environmental injustice of climate change.'
This evening of discursive, sonic, visual and sensory interventions at The Showroom is an occasion to gather together around the uncertainties and urgencies of the age of climate chaos.
Time: 18:30
