The date is 12 October, the day that marks a point in the beginnings of colonization of the South Americas, the day which is celebrated in Spain and the United States as Columbus Day, and in Peru the day of Indigenous cultures, as an act of resistance.
The program that launches the book 'Climate: Our Right to Breathe' sheds light on the correlations between climate change, colonial, and neocolonial ferocity, and structural inequities caused by transecting schemes of repression; and, magnifies the experiences of those facing ecological collapse.
Mobilized by diverse practices and backgrounds, a number of thinkers and artists gather in Gothenburg to offer both speculative perspectives on and pragmatic relays from the intersectional fight for climate justice and multispecies survivance.
PROGRAM
- 3–3:30 pm: 'The Brightness of Greedy Europe' — Puppet Theatre by Daniela Ortiz
- 3:30–4 pm: Ana Teixeira Pinto – 'Fire and Fuel: Energy and Chronopolitical Allegory'
- 4–5 pm: Screening of 'Toxic Clouds' (2021) by Forensic Architecture followed by a conversation with Svitlana Matviyenko, Associate Director of the Digital Democracies Institute.
- 5:30–6:15 pm: Françoise Vergès – 'Breathing: A Revolutionary Act'
- 6:30–7 pm: 'The Oceanic' — performance lecture by Léuli Eshrāghi
- 7–7:45 pm: Panel: 'Watery Histories' — a conversation between artists Katarina Pirak Sikku and Léuli Eshrāghi
Reserve your spot by contacting anna.granqvist@internationaleonline.org
Light installation at Götaplatsen, Gothenburg
During the day we open a new light installation by Katarina Pirak Sikku, reflecting on the building of Götaplatsen in Gothenburg as a symbol of modernity in Sweden in parallel with the historical beginnings of exploiting waters and lands in Sapmi territories in order to provide electricity resources. The installation is shown here with the film installation 'Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part IV – Reverse Shot' (2022) by Marwa Arsanios. Exhibition period: 12.10 – 20.11.2022
A warm welcome!
The programme is part of 'Ecologies of Art Publishing' October 12–14, 2022, a series of public events hosted by L’Internationale Online and HDK-Valand.
ABOUT THE BOOK
'Climate: Our Right to Breathe' is published by L’Internationale Online and K. Verlag, Berlin, within the framework of the four-year program Our Many Europes (2018–22), co-financed by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Contributors: Maria Thereza Alves, Marwa Arsanios, Eduardo Carrera R, Sebastian Cichocki, Fernando García-Dory, Léuli Eshrāghi, Ayesha Hameed, Mônica Hoff, bell hooks, Jagna Lewandowska, Nomusa Makhubu, Svitlana Matviyenko, Samaneh Moafi, Marina Naprushkina, May-Britt Ö̈hman, Samanta Arango Orozco, Daniela Ortiz, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Peta Rake, Maristella Svampa, Françoise Vergès, Cecilia Vicuña, Jaime Vindel, and Munem Wasif. Edited by: Hiuwai Chu, Meagan Down, Nkule Mabaso, Pablo Martínez, and Corina Oprea. T
he book is available in K. Verlag’s online shop and will be distributed to international booksellers by IDEA Books, Amsterdam. It will also be available at all museum members of L’Internationale: MG+MSUM (Ljubljana, Slovenia); Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain); MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain); M HKA (Antwerp, Belgium); MSN (Warsaw, Poland), SALT (Istanbul and Ankara, Turkiye), and Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, the Netherlands).
Image Credits
Cover image: Otobong Nkanga, 'Whose Crisis is This?', 2013. Acrylic on paper, two parts, 29.7 × 42 cm. Image courtesy of the artist. Book design by Christophe Clarijs in collaboration with K. Verlag.
