Event Information
08 November 2022
6:30 pm–7:30 pm

Organiser
The Showroom /
PACT UCL

Location
The Showroom
63 Penfold Street
London
NW8 8PQ

Published in Thames & Hudson’s World of Art series, Art and Climate Change is dedicated to the abundance of enlightening artistic engagements with intensifying ecological breakdown. 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 discusses 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.

Maja and Reuben Fowkes, directors of the Postsocialist Art Centre at the Institute of Advanced Studies, will present the book and its relation to their research project on the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts. Katarzyna Depta-Garapich, who is currently completing a PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art, has conceived the edible artwork Planetary Ferment to respond to the climate crisis of the Anthropocene. 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.