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topic: Climate Breakdown
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Climate Breakdown

In Climate Breakdown, we engage with new theories and artistic practices on visual practices, climate activism and decolonial practices. In what ways can art(education) foster and challenge the way we understand, cope, and rethink the causes and consequences of climate breakdown? How can we create and imagine in times of ecological crisis? How do artists, filmmakers, writers and activist challenge and navigate the demobilizing power of the fossil fuel industry and racial capitalism that feels equally all-encompassing, abstract and yet persuasive? How do they take part in building social movements and artistic practices along with decolonial activists?
This topic contains content that originated from various research questions and programmes, as well as contributions from the one-day event series that ArtEZ Studium Generale organised between 2011 and 2018.

The research programme Climate Breakdown was initiated and developed as a film programme series , curated together with AKI ArtEZ Enschede between 2019 and 2020. In the first year the focus was on the power and limits of images in times of ecological crisis.

For the film programme How On Earth, several artists, activists and filmmakers were invited to speak on the ethical dilemmas and challenges in making artistic works on climate breakdown. This series was concluded with an exhibition made by students of AKI BIO MATTERs, and joined by the Portuguese artist Alice dos Rois for an exchange between the students and herself on her film Mood Keep.
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subtopic

Living Matters

A collection of blogs by students for the Living Matters non-exhibition, which took place during COVID-19. Led by Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko.

Climate activism & art

Engaging with the questions on imagination and creation in times of ecological crisis, we invited artists and activists to respond to the power of constructed images and pressing feelings of anxiety and disillusion. How do artists, film makers, writers and activist challenge, counter, resist, and navigate the demobilizing power of the fossil fuel industry and racial capitalism that feels equally all-encompassing, abstract and yet persuasive? This series included a presentation and a workshop by philosopher and activist Harriet Bergman on the role that the arts can play in climate crisis communication, and two corresponding essays written by Harriet Bergman and writer, artist and pleasure activist Ama Josephine Budge. Please take time to listen to the podcasts, especially De Zaak Shell, which is a convincing example of the role that art can play in countering the powerful PR and green washing tactics by fossil fuel companies like Shell. This work was made in conjunction with the legal case against Shell brought upon by Milieudefensie.
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essay Harriet Bergman – 22 apr. 2020

Trips Across the Abyss

When I think of climate change, I struggle to make sense of the world and the people around me. Scientists have called the next century 'the century of hell'. What is immoral and illogical should not happen. And yet, it does happen. 'Status quo', 'business as usual,' or, in less fuzzy terms, 'situation normal, all fucked up.' Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home.

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essay Ama Josephine Budge – 01 mei 2020

Tales from the Abyss

I was invited to respond to Harriet Bergman’s essay Trips Across the Abyss (2019), itself a response to Bridge Over Troubled Water (2016) – a short film by performance collective MSL and Jaakko Pallasvuo. This response to a response to a film, that is itself a response to the nonsensical affect swirling through and about human and non-human life in the face of climate change, is structured by a series of questions, of political orientations of an often acutely depoliticised subject, and, of course some fictitious (or predictive depending on your point of view) interjections.

video – 30 sep. 2019

Crisis x Response

Current global affairs can be characterized as a continuous state of emergency. The potential of artistic practices lies in learning to imagine and navigate your practice in relation to your environment. The potential danger of art lies in advocating solutions and optimism devoid of local needs and knowledge.

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podcast – 24 feb. 2020

Harriet Bergman on climate breakdown

Radio ArtEZ, season 3, episode 4

In this podcast, Harriet Bergman introduces her academic research on climate breakdown and political emotions, and shares with us how her activism and research inform her work at Fossil Free Culture. Fossil Free Culture is a collective of artists, activists and researchers working at the intersection of art and climate activism. With their disobedient art, they seek to bring an end to oil and gas sponsorship of public cultural institutions in the Netherlands. Harriet Bergman is a philosopher, writer and climate activist.

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podcast – 24 feb. 2020

BONUS: De zaak Shell - Monoloog voor een consument

Nederlands gesproken

In deze bonusaflevering op navolging van de podcast met Harriet Bergman over klimaatafbraak, wordt de zaak van Shell gepresenteerd. In die aflevering hadden we het over de rol die kunst kan spelen in klimaatactivisme. In deze bijzondere aflevering presenteren we een monoloog uit de Zaak Shell van theatermakers Rebekka de Wit en Anoek Nuyens als een krachtig voorbeeld. Rebekka de Wit is een schrijver en een performer, en Anoek Nuyens is een schrijver en theatermaker.

blog – 17 jun. 2020

Interview bachelor student dance Polina Nikolaeva

About her choreography 'Semi-processing. Consumed.'

For this blog contribution, we spoke to Polina Nikoleava, a Bachelor student Dance at ArtEZ Arnhem about her choreography and how this work finally was developed into themes that touch upon the topic climate.

Climate Justice Movements & Decolonial practices

All political and social struggles caused by fossil fuel industries, extractive practices and deforestation have (had) dire effects on indigenous people and their rights to their living environment. Climate justice movements around the world are strongly led by decolonial movements and resistance. How are artistic practices informed by these powerful movements and to what effect? This series includes a conversation with climate justice activist and filmmaker Chihiro Geuzebroek on the relationship between climate movement, racism and land rights of indigenous peoples, as well as an interview with her on the power of protest songs and music in climate justice movements.
video – 13 mei 2020

Chihiro Geuzebroek: Poetic Climate Justice & Indigenous Futurism

Videoregistratie online event 22 april 2020

Mister Motley en ArtEZ Studium Generale begonnen een online lunch event serie op woensdag 22 april 2020 met filmmaker and climate justice activist Chihiro Geuzebroek en spraken met haar over het verband tussen de klimaatbeweging, racisme en de rechten van Inheemse volken. En over de kracht van protestliederen en science fiction om dingen te veranderen.

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interview – 20 apr. 2020

‘Wanneer land de basis vormt van betekenis, is groei een gekke obsessie’

In gesprek met Chihiro Geuzebroek

Op woensdag 22 april 2020 was filmmaker en klimaatrechtenactivist Chihiro Geuzebroek te gast in het online lunch event dat mister Motley samen met ArtEZ Studium Generale organiseerde. Dit event ging over de kracht van leuzen en liedjes in de dekoloniale klimaatstrijd.

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blog – 22 apr. 2020

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

We asked curators and educators Gemma Medina and Alessandra Saviotti to select some projects that deal with climate colonialism, climate breakdown and climate activism from the Arte Útil archive. This online, growing database is free and features case studies which use art as a way to change how we act in society.

Collective organizing & methods in the arts

Other contributions from our archive that resonate with the onset questions in this series include an interview by theatre maker Lotte van den Berg, from the one-day event Het Parlement der Dingen (2016), and a lecture by photographer and documentary maker Henk Wildschut on the false conceptions of modern food production and food consumption that are fueled by nostalgic imageries, as part of the one-day event Just Another Day (2014). And finally, an enticing conversation between sociologist and philosopher Willem Schinkel and theater collective Wunderbaum on the tensions between power, agency and justice in democracies at the one-day event Just Another Day (2014). These one-day event series were organized by ArtEZ studium generale between 2011 and 2018.
video – 28 nov. 2016

Talkshow: Lotte van den Berg over Het parlement van de dingen

In dit interview gaat Patty Pontier in gesprek met Lotte van den Berg en aantal studenten over haar workshop U Staat hier, en met name hoe Lotte van den Berg in haar collectief het gesprek als een kunstwerk en een collectieve improvisatie benaderd, waarbij het publiek wordt uitgenodigd om deel te nemen. Lotte van den Berg is een theatermaker en een toneelregisseur.

video – 14 feb. 2014

Lezing Henk Wildschut: ‘Voedsel en de realiteit achter het beeld’

Weinig onderwerpen roepen zoveel discussie op als het voedselvraagstuk. Daarin voeren scepsis en pessimisme over de productie van ons voedsel steeds vaker de boventoon. Toen Henk Wildschut gevraagd werd door het Rijksmuseum en NRC zich te verdiepen in het onderwerp ‘voedsel’ zat hij vol vooroordelen over de voedselindustrie. Door zich te verdiepen in de moderne innovatieve productie van ons basisvoedsel (groente, vlees, eieren en melk) veranderde dit beeld. Hij ontdekte dat onze afkeer van de moderne voedsel industrie is gebaseerd op nostalgisch beelden die al lang niet meer bestaan. In zijn lezing presenteert hij realistische beelden die minder eng zijn dan ze lijken. Henk Wildschut is een fotograaf en een documentairemaker.

video – 24 mei 2013

Willem Schinkel in gesprek met Wunderbaum

In dit gesprek spreken socioloog en filosoof Willem Schinkel en dramaturg Tobias Kokkelmans met elkaar en studenten over macht, tegenmacht en rechtvaardigheid in een democratie. Dit gesprek was onderdeel van de workshop van Wunderbaum, waarbij de deelnemers waren uitgenodigd voor een collectieve brainstorm. Socioloog en filosoof Willem Schinkel was uitgenodigd om dit gesprek te voeden naar aanleiding van zijn boek De Nieuwe Democratie. Wunderbaum is een theatercollectief. Willem Schinkel is socioloog en een filosoof en is verbonden aan de Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam.

video – 24 mei 2013

An interactive workshop by John-Paul Flintoff: How to Change the World?

Flintoff teaches ArtEZ students how they can make a difference at A New Dawn, 24 May 2013, by ArtEZ Studium Generale.

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news – 30 sep. 2020

First ArtEZ student contributions Open Call APRIA published

Staying with the Trouble. How to Tell Stories in the Time of Ecological Crisis?

agenda

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film screening

How on Earth presents: Matters of Vision

What is the role of art and design in challenging anthropocentrism?

12 dec. 2019
Auditorium, AKI ArtEZ Enschede 17:00 - 19:30 hrs
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film screening

How on Earth presents: Earthbound

film screening and lecture performance by Sjoerd van Oevelen and Elodie Hiryczuk

28 nov. 2019
Auditorium, AKI ArtEZ Enschede 17:00 - 19:30 hrs
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film screening

How on Earth presents the (de)mobilizing power of eco-anxiety and discomfort

Harriet Bergman will talk about climate change, doom-dude protagonists, and discomfort.

12 nov. 2019
Focus Filmtheater, Arnhem 19.00 - 21.30 hrs.
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How on Earth presents Biodemonology Night. On Practicing Xenobodies by Witches, Hackers and Nonhumans.

Evening curated by Agnieszka Anna Wolodźko i.c.w. Tetem

31 okt. 2019
Auditorium, AKI ArtEZ Enschede 19.30-21.30 hrs.
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film screening

How on Earth presents what’s wrong with the Anthropocene?

26 sep. 2019
Auditorium, AKI ArtEZ Enschede 19.30 - 21.30 hrs
film screening

How on Earth presents Living Images

05 sep. 2019
Room 1.12 AKI ArtEZ Enschede 14.00 hrs
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Biomatters of a precarious future

27 mrt. 2019
Tetem Enschede 19:30 uur