About this Event
In this fourth online workshop we will engage with the guestion of how to be in solidarity with those that are affected by ecological destruction and climate breakdown. What are meaningful ways of collaborating? How can we build networks of solidarity and support? And how can be losen the boundaries between art and activism?
Artist Ralph Eya and activist Rosa Marina Flores Cruz will share their practices and invite the audience to engage through practical exercises with their work.
Panellists:
Rosa Marina Flores Cruz is a member of the "Assembly of Indigenous Peoples of the Isthmus in Defense of Land and Territory" and of the "Indigenous Futures Network", she is afrobinnizá from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. She holds a Master's degree in Rural Development from UAM-Xochimilco and a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her work has focused on issues of land dispossession and green capitalism, environmental education and climate change, and Indigenous and community feminism. She is currently collaborating with the Hackeo Cultural collective, in the development of the workshop "Milpamérica Resiste. Living solutions to the climate crisis", a space for pedagogical training in environmental education, strategic communication and defense of the territory.
Ralph Eya is an independent art practitioner and cultural worker. His work spans across the fields of alternative education, community organizing, and new genre public art. Currently, he is focusing on expanding his art initiatives through regional engagements in the Philippines. Ralph's interdisciplinary practice seeks to contribute in activating individuals and the youth via artistic approaches in rights-based identity and critical consciousness formation, cultivating people's right to freely be involved in the cultural life through participatory and accessible means of creative production. He has produced and curated several exhibitions in partnership with various foundations and organizations and has presented his collaborative art praxis both locally and internationally. He is a fellow of the Artists for a Better World program of the Singapore International Foundation, a recipient of the Social Impact Initiative Prize of Megacities Organization Paris. Ralph attended the YCI Forum as a participant in 2018.
This online workshop is organised by Bethany Copsey.
The Climate Exchange Platform will launch throughout April and May 2024 with a series of four online workshops and panel discussions. It is a network of participating art academies and post-academic institutes including the Planetary Poetics master's programme at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Art and Ecology master's programme at Goldsmiths University in London and the Center for Creative Ecologies at the University of California in Santa Cruz.
Through the Climate Exchange Platform we want to share experiences, perspectives, and working methods between art schools with programs focused on aesthetics and ecology--particularly those that directly focus their artistic practices on the unfolding ecological catastrophe--and the public at large. The development of the platform is organised by students and alumni from the various participating art schools under the guidance of artist Dorine van Meel. This first series of online panel discussions and workshops is organized by members of the platform. The Climate Exchange Platform is initiated by Planetary Poetics at the Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam) and supported by VIS, Virtuele Internationale Samenwerking.
Event Venue
Online
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