Wretched of the Earth and Racial Justice Network
with Ashish Ghadiali and Penny Wangari-Jones
For this conversation, the maat Climate Collective is joined by Ashish Ghadiali, of Wretched of the Earth, and Penny Wangari-Jones, of Racial Justice Network, from United Kingdom. With them, the discussion went around the meaning, necessity, and challenges of climate justice – within the cultural and artistic sphere, and within public policy and community activism – in advance of COP26, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties meeting this year in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12, which will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
— Climate Collective: T. J. Demos, Molemo Moiloa, Susan Schuppli and Paulo Tavares
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The Climate Emergency > Emergence public programme initiative energises critical analyses and creative proposals in moving beyond catastrophism and toward the emergence of environmentally sustainable futures. Interdisciplinary in breadth and international in scope, the programme is conceptualised by the newly-formed 2021 Climate Collective: T. J. Demos (USA), chair and chief-curator, Molemo Moiloa (South Africa), Susan Schuppli (UK), Paulo Tavares (Brazil), geared toward assembling diverse cultural practitioners working at the intersection of experimental arts and political ecology.
As part of the programme taking place from April until December 2021, the Climate Collective has curated an online video screening series featuring films by a variety of international and local practitioners around themes addressed in the ongoing events. |
“maat Explorations” is a programme framework featuring an ongoing series of exhibitions, public and educational projects delving into the multi-faceted subject of environmental transformation from various scholarly and experimental vantage points – it brings philosophical and political perspectives forward, as well as sociocultural and technological investigations interwoven in speculative and critical practices in the arts and design at large.
Central to the discursive and critical effort of “maat Explorations” is the establishment of the Climate Collective, a rotating group of experts in the expanded field of contemporary art, design and technology that will each year propose a refreshed vision on the connection between creative practices, ecological thought and politics. |
Illustration: Lisa Hartje Moura.
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Related links
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A Collective Conversation on Reparations, Race and Climate Justice with Esther Stanford (2021)
Esther Stanford-Xosei: Afriphobia and ISMAR-denial (Reparations as a buzzword) (2021)
Black Atlantic: Sensing the Planet (The Serpentine, 2021)
Black Atlantic (Dartington Trust, 2021)
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Planetary Imagination (Soundings, special issue, 2021)
Scientists warn G7 that cost of breaching 1.5˚C warming limit will far exceed costs of achieving it (UCL News, 12 June, 2021)
13th Recommendation, Grounding and Provocation (posted by Penny Wangari-Jones, Racial Justice Network – UK, 2020) |
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Wretched of The Earth is a grassroots collective for Indigenous, black, brown and diaspora groups and individuals demanding climate justice and acting in solidarity with communities both in the UK and in the Global South. They penned the widely-cited “Open Letter to Extinction Rebellion” in 2019.
Racial Justice Network brings together individuals, communities and organisations from across West Yorkshire to proactively promote racial justice and propose holistic, economic, spiritual, and cultural repairs to end socio-environmental injustice and address the legacies of colonialism (including via its proposed “13th Recommendation”). |
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