Projects about climate colonialism, climate breakdown and climate activism from the Arte Útil archive

In this blog, we want to share with you the long-standing Arte útil platform, which is designed as a site for research and exchange. Arte útil draws on artistic thinking to imagine, create, and implement tactics that change how we act in society. We kindly asked curators and educators Gemma Medina and Alessandra Saviotti, who are regular guest teachers at the International Master Artist Educator (ArtEZ Arnhem) and the Master Arts Education (ArtEZ Zwolle) to select relevant projects that engage with political and ecological struggles of social groups and local members in different parts of the world, such as a four-day walking route in West Istanbul to experience the detrimental urban transformation of the city to memory database and participatory map of the Delta region together with local families in Argentina.

The Arte Útil archive was built in 2013 and it was recently presented as part of ‘The Musum of Arte Útil’, an exhibition and research project initiated by Tania Bruguera in collaboration with curators and researchers at Queens Museum (NY), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven) and Grizedale Art (Lake District, UK). It has been activated through various seminars, workshops and exhibitions throughout the world.