Crisis Imaginaries
From June to September, Framer Framed in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Niederlande, will host a series of four events focused on the global climate crisis.
As the world shifts and shutters in response to the Covid19 pandemic, many have reasserted the importance of responding to climate change at a similar scale. We have watched the two crises intertwine, with early indicators showing a correlation between environmental degradation and an increased chance of animal to human virus contagion; likewise, more severe cases of Corona often appear and affect areas suffering from worse air pollution, with the same patterns of vulnerability exacerbated. What can we learn from our current crisis and take with us for our present and future crisis? Together, we will critically examine the notion of crisis as a spectacle that calls for strong leadership, threatening to devolve toward authoritarian tendencies, and as a narrative constructed from differential viewpoints.
- "There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives."
(Audre Lorde)
Link to the live stream
The second event in the series Crisis Imaginaries will be an online panel discussion on YouTube with Chihiro Geuzebroek, Asuka Kähler and Raki Ap on 14 July 2020 at 17:00.
Moderator: Amanda Boetzkes
Chapter 2 of the
Crisis Imaginaries series focuses on intersectional crisis talks. As the climate crisis extends from our social systems, we must be vigilant for the ways in which social inequality and institutional racism trace through our environmental politics.
How do we actually redistribute planetary wealth and what role does restorative justice play? As Climate Justice movements in a Western-European context, like Fridays for Future, have been called out in the past for being predominantly white and from a privileged background, we want to reflect on that accusation and further the discussion toward an activism that considers histories of colonial and racist violence and their present entanglements with the current climate crisis from a systemic and pragmatic perspective.
How can practices of listening bring forward an environmental justice that becomes aware of amnesiac celebrations of wilderness dependent on nationalist, racially blinkered, and gender entitled frameworks?
How can we engage a politics of visibility within climate justice movements to shatter systemic exclusions?
Whose stories have we heard so far and to whom do we need to listen to now?
Together, we ask: what is intersectional climate justice?
- Asuka Kähler
Asuka Kähler (2003) lives in Frankfort on the Main. He is going to school and will have his final exams next year. Kähler has been politically active for over a year now, mainly in the Fridays for Future movement, both locally and nationwide. He is one of the very few BIPoC in the movement. His activism focuses thus on climate justice and equity for everyone whilst critically reflecting on the movement. He does so by bringing forward his perspective and expertise, talking about his experience and works so on the different aspects of climate justice from an intersectional viewpoint.
- Chihiro Geuzebroek
"We will not die quietly" she warned the Shell board at the AGM last year as one of four Shell Must Fall Coalition speakers. As filmmaker, poet, speaker, activist, trainer and singer songwriter Chihiro has been active in the climate movement for over a decade. Participant in Code Rood and Fossil Free Culture (filming), coordinator for Greenpeace (2019), campaign manager for the municipality elections for the party Amsterdam BIJ1 (2018), cofounder of Climate Liberation Bloc (2017) and the decolonial foundation Aralez (2020). Chihiro is dedicated to restore and restory our relationship with earth and each other.
She recently contributed to the climate activism book Nu het nog kan with an article Climate crisis is a colonial crisis and the nY publication Rape enters the scene with an article on Climate and sexual abuse. Her climate justice feature Radical Friends, filmed in Bolivia, played festivals in America and Europe winning two jury awards. Chihiro is happiest when making music with others, example Shell Must Fall song, and retrieving erased history and relearning other ways of being that have been and are threatened by colonialism. She is currently writing an Indigenous futurist screenplay in which she gets to produce a radical alternative vision for society.
- Raki Ap Raki Ap works as a civil servant at the Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands. Originally from West Papua, Ap fled to the Netherlands along with his mother and three brothers after the murder of his father Arnold Ap. Ap later entered the Dutch army out of a desire to contribute to international peace and security. His military experience structured his youth and provided him with the discipline, knowledge and experience, which he has used for his role as a storyteller in the last 10 years. Ap is also an activist committed to politics, human rights and climate activism – because in West Papua all three elements have common ground. In the Netherlands, he works to give the climate debate a more indigenous perspective. He tells the story of West Papua with passion, as one that includes all elements (politics, human rights and environmentalism) so that we can inspire each other to act upon climate change.
- Amanda Boetzkes
Amanda Boetzkes is a Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Guelph. She is the author of Plastic Capitalism – Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste (2019) and The Ethics of Earth Art (2010) and coeditor of Heidegger and the Work of Art History (2014). Her current project, Ecologicity, Vision and Art for a World to Come, considers modes of visualizing environments with a special focus on the circumpolar North.
The
YouTube link to the livestream will be uploaded to the
Facebook event
Crisis Imaginaries is a project by
Framer Framed and the Goethe-Institut Niederlande.
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