Languages of Climate Crisis. A seminar in dialogue with the exhibition Future Fragments.
The theme of this interdisciplinary seminar is the current climate crisis and the question of how to grasp and communicate its urgency – for example within the walls of a (cultural heritage) museum.
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Scientifically supported claims repeatedly refer to the unprecedented nature of the changes experienced and expected in the world at present. However, the formats on which these claims are mostly communicated seem to rather withstand and even resist change and rupture. We ask, are the dominating languages of the Western world, such as those of academia, science and politics, able to react to an unprecedented climate crisis, or to encourage the public to needed action? What other forms of communication may possibly be better equipped to do so? Or, what kind of articulation (approach and configuration) does the Anthropocene require, and what is possibly the role of art and artistic method here?
The seminar is organised in connection to the exhibition Future Fragments (Icel. Brot úr framtíð) by artist Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir, and in collaboration with the research project Relics of Nature headed by Professor Þóra Pétursdóttir at the University of Oslo.
Lecturers in alphabetical order:
Andri Snær Magnason
Bergsveinn Þórsson
Arndís Bergsdóttir
Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir
Garðar Eyjólfsson
Gísli Pálsson
Gunndís Ýr Finnbogadóttir
Kelly Jazvac
Kyrre Kverndokk
Ole Martin Sandberg
Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir
Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir
Þóra Pétursdóttir