Curators: Isabel Ponce de Leão e Maria do Carmo Mendes
Parallel to the talk sessions, the exhibition “Art and Climate Change” will take place, curated by Isabel Ponce de Leão and Maria do Carmo Mendes.
Everyone who works in the arts, whether visual, performing or literary, is well aware of the tremendous challenges we face globally. However, when the future of life on Earth seems to be in jeopardy, artists are not only expected to give expression to their aesthetic creativity, but also that with their works they manage to involve themselves and us actively and collectively with the planet, drawing public attention and causing the public to experience structures and processes that threaten human and non-human livelihoods on Earth, if not Earth itself.
This was the challenge launched to the various artists participating in the exhibition: how can they aesthetically represent anthropogenic climate disturbances, gutted, emptied, contaminated natural spaces, mutilated landscapes, obliterated biodiversity, environmental injustices, etc.? And what sustainable and unsustainable futures can they make us imagine with their art? In short, what responses do they give, from their field of intervention, to human interference in the functioning of the Earth System, or simply, at all scales, including the global one, known as the great challenge of the Anthropocene?
Everyone who works in the arts, whether visual, performing or literary, is well aware of the tremendous challenges we face globally. However, when the future of life on Earth seems to be in jeopardy, artists are not only expected to give expression to their aesthetic creativity, but also that with their works they manage to involve themselves and us actively and collectively with the planet, drawing public attention and causing the public to experience structures and processes that threaten human and non-human livelihoods on Earth, if not Earth itself.
This was the challenge launched to the various artists participating in the exhibition: how can they aesthetically represent anthropogenic climate disturbances, gutted, emptied, contaminated natural spaces, mutilated landscapes, obliterated biodiversity, environmental injustices, etc.? And what sustainable and unsustainable futures can they make us imagine with their art? In short, what responses do they give, from their field of intervention, to human interference in the functioning of the Earth System, or simply, at all scales, including the global one, known as the great challenge of the Anthropocene?