An interview with Maja and Reuben Fowkes on the decolonial ecological perspective from the Global East in the Riga-based art journal Arterritory.

Maja and Reuben Fowkes are London-based curators, critics and art historians specialising in East European art history and contemporary art and ecology, co-directors of the Postsocialist Art Centre at University College London, and founders of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art, a platform for transnational research into East European art and ecology that operates across the disciplinary boundaries of art history, contemporary art, and ecological thought. They recently published the book ‘Art and Climate Change’, a collection of a wide range of artistic responses to the current ecological emergency. On January 10, at Riga Art Space, the Fowkeses presented the talk ‘System Change not Climate Change’ in which they analysed the Socialist Anthropocene and its relation to the natural world, ecology and climate change, and how a decolonial ecological perspective, especially one rooted in the non-capitalist histories of actually existing socialism, could sharpen the critique of green capitalist proposals for incremental adaptation to climate change.

Read the interview on Arterritory