Catching up: Strategies in climate discourse
Not only is the climate crisis coming to a head, but the discourse space is also heating up. What is at stake is nothing less than the authority to interpret what the climate crisis is, who it affects and how, who takes advantage of it and how to find a way out. What is "climate justice"? During the three-day thematic focus HOW LOW CAN WE GO?, the artistic program will be accompanied by well-founded and passionate debates - this time with a focus on strategic interventions in the field of law and climate activism. On Friday, international experts will exchange views on legally meaningful ways to effectively enforce nature conservation - such as declaring forests, rivers and mountains as legal entities. On Saturday, climate activist strategies will be reflected on intergenerationally together with international and local experts. There will also be a workshop program.
Past dates
Friday
1/26/24
6:30 PM
k2
90 Min.
»Otro Mundo Ya Existe«
Rights of Nature
What if we were to understand rivers, mountains or forests as actors who have a legal voice? What if we were to understand nature as more than just an object in our art and take its needs more into account? The rights of nature approach could bring about an urgently needed change in human thinking and slow down the loss of our biodiversity. Moderated by researcher and performance artist Alex Viteri, international experts from an emerging global movement will discuss artistic, legal and activist perspectives.
Alex Viteri (moderator) is a Andean performer and scholar based in Berlin. These days, they work mostly at the threshold of the visual arts and performance, inspired by feminist decolonial activism and scholars. Their current Ph.D. project at CUNY (City University of New York) focusses on the ‘authentic ways mountains, plants, and other living organisms participate in a dance’s meaning-making and composition’.
Giulia Casalini´s practice spans across curating, performance, writing and research. Her (eco)transfeminist and queer activism has the scope of building and bridging communities across the globe through the arts and (nature)cultures. Based in London, Giulia has been the co-founder of the non-profit arts organisation Arts Feminism Queer (aka CUNTemporary, 2012-2020). She now sits on the advisory board of Mimosa House gallery and she is a Technē-funded PhD candidate, researching queer-feminist performance art from transnational and anti-colonial perspectives.
hn. lyonga is a Black, Queer, interdisciplinary writer, Poet, and currently the Neighbour in Residence at Gropius Bau, living and working in Berlin. lyonga is a member of the curatorial board of BARAZANI.berlin - Forum Kolonialismus und Widerstand, and a member of the Field Narratives Collective, working on ideas of rural biographies, transgenerational and cross-continental storytelling.
»I have lived in other places - and they are still present in my body, my writings, and in my life in the diaspora. I have not come or arrived here on my own. I have arrived on the shoulders of others. My work focuses on writing, storytelling, community, ways of being and existing in space, and migrational inquiries pertinent to historically colonized and marginalized communities.«
Juneseo Hwang is a committed researcher currently researching on environmental peacebuilding, ecological justices, green crimes, and environmental rights, with geographical interests in the European Union, East Asia, and conflict-affected societies (e.g. Northern Ireland, Cyprus, the West Balkans, the Philippines, etc.). He has also campaigned for environmental accountability of global military and biodiversity protection.
Roda Verheyen works as an international environmental lawyer based in Hamburg. She has been dedicated to the fight for climate protection for decades and serves as the legal representative of Greenpeace in various completed and ongoing climate lawsuits. One of her most notable successes involved legally representing nine young people who filed a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. In April 2021, the court confirmed that the German Federal Government's inadequate climate policy posed a threat to the civil liberties of the younger generation, marking a historic decision.
Saturday
1/27/24
2:30 PM
k2
3 hours incl. breaks
Re:Rooted Workshop
Join artist Niya B for a transformative workshop inspired by her ritual performance, Re:Rooted. Delving into ecosensuality, ecointimacy, and ecogender over the past decade, Niya draws inspiration from Donna Haraway's concept of 'making odd kin.'
At Kampnagel, Niya brings her practice of connecting with plants, eco-somatics, and hybridity. Participants will embark on a journey exploring the transformative power of plants and more-than-human entities.
Through breath, movement, touch, imagination, and the healing power of Aloe vera, we will feel, listen, and learn. This workshop acknowledges the constraints of our daily existence while encouraging the embrace of contradictions. Together, we will dream of a future rooted in multispecies care, fostering a space for reflection, growth, and connection with the more-than-human.
Niya B is a multi-disciplinary artist, working at the intersections of visual art and performance on ecology, (trans)gender embodiments, class, mythology and the knowledge held in the land and the performing body.
Accessibility
Duration: 3 hours with 2 scheduled breaks
The workshop consists of warming up exercises, improvisational movement, breathing exercises, guided meditation, and reflective activities. The workshop is designed to be inclusive and adaptable to participants' comfort levels, welcoming all abilities with no prior experience required.
Sound: The movement segment may include loud music.
Lighting: The space will have soft lighting.
Level access: The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Breaks: In addition to the scheduled breaks, you are welcome to rest if you need it.
Please email us if you have specific accessibility concerns.
Saturday
1/27/24
4:00 PM
90 Min.
BIPoC Climate Reflection Space
Climate Justice focusses more than just human-induced climate change as such, but also questions of social justice, affected groups and issues of representation within the movement. With regard to climate activism and ecological efforts, it is striking how heavily these areas are shaped by white and middle-class actors, often in an attempt to gain a reputation. BiPoC in particular, especially in the overlap with experiences of classism, are severely affected by the consequences of climate change, are more likely to live in polluted areas and have to cope with the excessive consumption of the 'global North'.
The workshop addresses all people who are affected by racism, regardless of other forms of discrimination.
Zamzam Ibrahim and Quang Paasch offer a Safer Space to talk about relations to climate change and climate activism and to explore one's own perspectives and scope for action.
Saturday
1/27/24
6:30 PM
k2
90 Min.
Climate in Movement
The climate movement finds itself in a strategy vacuum. What has proved successful and where do we need to start again in order to intervene effectively in processes of environmental destruction?
Moderated by freelance journalist Sara Schurmann, representatives of climate activist groups (Daniel Manwire, Quang Paasch, Lea Rheinwill) debate with each other.
Sara Schurmann (moderation) is a freelance journalist, author and journalism trainer. In the past, she has worked as an editorial director, copywriter and consultant for Tagesspiegel, Gruner+Jahr, Vice, Zeit Online, funk and SWR, among others. She previously attended the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg and was voted one of the top 30 to 30 by Medium Magazin in 2018. In 2020, she wrote an open letter to the industry to initiate a discussion about climate reporting; in summer 2021, she co-founded the Climate Journalism Network Germany. Her first book "Klartext Klima" was published in 2022, and in the same year the Medium magazine jury voted her Science Journalist of the Year.
Daniel Manwire is a biologist and social pedagogue. He has been organized in the anti-nuclear movement since 1994 and has personally accompanied all the Castors. He has been fighting against the "greenhouse effect" since the mid-1980s and has been involved in Ende Gelände campaigns with the Hamburg anti-nuclear office since 2015, not least in the fight for the village of Lützerath in the Rhenish mining area.
Quang Paasch is an activist, moderator, speaker and media professional from Berlin. He made his first public appearances as one of the speakers of Fridays for Future Germany. Quang currently runs the young media collective @zank.info. He mainly works on topics related to social justice. Quang studies special education and political science at Freie Universität and gender studies at Technische Universität Berlin.
Lea-Maria is 22 years old and comes from Lüneburg. She is a social worker and works in a refugee shelter and has been active with the "Letzte Generation" (engl: Last Generation) since 2022.
