Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in partnership with PWIAS

Vancouver, Canada – Friday, 26 May at 5pm

Participating artists from the 2022/23 PWIAS Artist Digital Residency facilitated by Dani d’Emilia share from collective learnings gathered in their attempt to face the Climate and Nature Emergency from a place of intellectual, affective and relational rigour and response-ability. Deploying artistic practices to confront our complicity with the extractive logics of coloniality, their inquiries address the challenges of decentering and disinvesting from human exceptionalism and the difficult ethical and practical complexities of staying with the trouble of repairing relations. The participatory lecture includes invitations to practices that open up possibilities for thinking, relating and being beyond what is authorized within modern knowledge systems.

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This event was part of a three-part Friday evening series addressing artistic practices and pedagogies in times of ongoing social and ecological collapse. In the alarming context of an increasingly endangered planet, art practices that directly address and respond to the environment gain new urgency, as artists dare to tread where other practitioners often do not. These artists’ work centres on the recognition that we have entered into the Anthropocene, a new geologic era marked by the impact of human activity on the earth. Working in a variety of modes, ranging from critique to practical demonstrations and shading into other currents like social practice, relational aesthetics, environmental activism and systems theory, these artists express the hope that art can point the way to a more ecologically sustainable future. Participants come from a wide variety of disciplines and contexts, such as sound, performance, photography, dance, film and poetry, including political, curatorial, artistic and scholarly activism.

More info of the series available HERE