As part of the ØYFJELLET: From the Frontline of Land Rights in Sápmi exhibition, there will also be a public working session titled Counter Aesthetic Strategies for Climate Justice.
This working session is about sharing perspectives and approaches to the ethical, political and aesthetic challenges of climate justice. Bringing together artists and researchers from inside and outside academia, we will discuss ethical and aesthetic aspects of the ongoing climate crisis and green transition policies through the lens of climate justice. The working session is a collaboration between the research projects Climate Rights, INTERPRT, IA LAB and PACESETTERS.
Participants are invited to share their perspectives on specific challenges and a proposed response or approach to addressing them. Examples could range from exploring the role of visual evidence for climate justice, to discussing mythologies of impact, to deconstructing corporate social impact communication strategies, to sharing examples of new alliances between trade unions, workers and researchers trying to take matters into their own hands.
About IA LAB:
IA lab is a pilot project that supports and enables artists to engage in the crossdisciplinary challenges of the green transitions. The societal transformation to come requires everyone to question the business-as-usual, within each discipline, sector, or mode of work. The project’s goal is to provide young artists with a low threshold access to information, skills, networks, and people engaged in the social transformation to come emerging out of the large-scale initiatives on global, European, national, and regional level due to the climate crisis and the green transition. The material will be gathered and produced by the workshop participants and made available on an online resource site and a series of public events. The series of workshops aims to provide an introduction to various vantage points into the complexity of the green transitions with artistic and investigative means.
IA LAB is supported by Norsk Kulturfond.
About PACESETTERS:
PACESETTERS is a research and innovation action funded by the EU's Horizon Europe research programme. PACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together in sustainable ways. It brings together partners and places, creative practice and research perspectives that are out of the ordinary: creatives and climate scientists, artistic researchers and rural entrepreneurs, cultural workers and open source communities.
