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.
Link to the live stream
The forth event in the series Crisis Imaginaries will be an online panel discussion on YouTube on 29 september 2020 at 17:00 with Claudius Schulze and Jessika Khazrik, moderated by Marija Cetinić.
Our previous chapters of
Crisis Imaginaries have predominantly dealt with the social aspects and impacts of the climate crisis: societal scripts that have led us here, injustices permeating green movements, and the more personal, intimate reach of environmental degradation. In our final
Crisis Imaginaries discussion,
Climate Interventions, we will engage with individuals who plant themselves and their work at the forefront of climate change and operate from there: Jessika Khazrik and Claudius Schulze.
Climate Interventions asks: Is it possible to repair our climate? What might that look like? What can we create when we accept climate change's promise to alter our reality irrevocably? Including restorative technologies on a planetary scale as well as more hand-crafted innovations. While examining these proposed 'solutions' and responses, we can still look more closely, more critically to see how they emerge from social circumstances and necessitate social change.
Together we explore: What grows in the face of crisis?
- Jessika Khazrik
Jessika Khazrik (born 1991, Beirut) is an artist, technologist, electronic music producer and writer whose interdisciplinary practice ranges from composition to ecotoxicology, machine learning, cryptography, performance, visual art and history of science and music. Khazrik holds BAs in Linguistics and in Theatre from the Lebanese University and a MS in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT where she was awarded the Ada Lovelace prize. In 2012-13, she was a fellow at Home Workspace Program in Ashkal Alwan and in 2018-19, a fellow at the Digital Earth. While concurrently working as technologist and researcher in different collective and institutional settings, her work has been presented at The Normandy Landfill, the Stanford Research Institute, CTM Festival, the Arab Image Foundation, Kunsthalle Wien, Les Urbaines, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Times Museum Guangzhou, LUMA Foundation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Amnesty International, Center of Documentary Arts and Research at UC Santa Cruz, her house, the internet, secrets and Theater der Welt, among others. Her essays and short stories have been published in Bidayat Journal, Kohl Journal, The Funambulist, Almodon and Ibraaz to name a few. Besides her solo practice, Khazrik composes the soundtrack of the Geocinema film and research project, often collaborates with artists and labels on album art and text and DJs under different names.
She is currently guest faculty at HfK Bremen (DE) and the editor of the international solidarity page at the 17teshreen/October17 monthly publication (LB).
- Claudius Schulze
Claudius Schulze (born 1984) is a German artist and researcher. He is known for his large format landscape photography of social and political topics.
Claudius Schulze initially studied mechanical engineering and then Political and Islamic studies in Hamburg. He holds a master degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Sabanci University, Istanbul and graduated with distincton from the MA program "Photojournalism and Documentary photography" at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. While studying photography, he regularly contributed to various magazines e.g. Der Spiegel, Stern, and GEO.
He is currently pursuing a PhD on AI and artistic research at the University of the Arts London. Claudius Schulze is a regular university lecturer e.g. at Leuphana University Lüneburg, National Institute of Design, India, or University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover.
In his first monograph Socotra (2011), Schulze takes on the character of the conqueror to explore a remote island. The work criticizes the dealing with the colonial heritage in cultural and particularly literary history.
His second photo book State of Nature documents the extent of climate change and natural disaster protection measures in the European landscape. Claudius Schulze traveled with a self-built boat from Hamburg to Amsterdam and Paris to artistically explore the relationship between nature and urbanity. The results were shown at the Triennial of Photography 2018.
- Marija Cetinić
Marija Cetinić teaches and writes on contemporary literature and art. She recently completed a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of English at York University in Toronto. She held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.
Signs of Autumn – The Aesthetics of Saturation, her current project, focuses on the concept of saturation, and on developing its implications for the relation of contemporary art and aesthetics to political economy. Her essays have appeared in Mediations, Discourse, and European Journal of English Studies.
House, Library, Field – The Aesthetics of Saturation appears as a chapter in Neoliberalism, Value, and Jouissance. A chapter on affect appears in A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory (Wiley 2017).
Her doctoral work, on sadness in contemporary literature, was completed at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Her areas of specialization include Contemporary Literature and Art, Critical Theory, Marxist-Feminism, Trauma Theory, Affect Theory, Political Economy, and Environmental Humanities.
Crisis Imaginaries is a project by
Framer Framed and the Goethe-Institut Niederlande.
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