Ecological Futurisms
EF launches with a series of exhibition, talks and screening events at Ambika P3 in March 2022. Upcoming activities include: Radio Amnion transmission and conversations; book launch of Sex Ecologies with curator Stefanie Hessler and artist Ann Duk Hee Jordan; Animistic Apparatus screening programme exploring artists moving image as cosmological practices of communicating, relating and knowing; and special solidarity screening programmes featuring works by Ukrainian artists Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei, and media arts from Myanmar’s dynamic generation of young artists curated by Moe Myat May Zarchi.
ECOLOGICAL FUTURISMS (EF) is a collective of CREAM researchers exploring questions about collective futures.
Radio Amnion: Sonic Transmissions of Care Live
Thursday 17 March 2022 at Ambika P3, 19:00 GMT
This discursive listening event coincides with the full moon launch of the new audio commission by artist Tuomas A. Laitinen for Radio Amnion (March 17-19).
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Animistic Apparatus Screening at Ambika P3
Friday 18 March 2022 at Ambika P3, 19:00 GMT
Animistic Apparatus is a curatorial project exploring affinities between contemporary artists’ moving image and animistic practices, based on research by May Adadol Ingawanij who co-curates its various exhibitions with Julian Ross.
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Sex Ecologies Book Launch: Anne Duk Hee Jordan and Stefanie Hessler in conversation
Monday 21 March 2022 at Ambika P3, 19:00 GMT
Join artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan and curator Stefanie Hessler for a conversation and film screening of Jordan’s video Ziggy and the Starfish to celebrate the book launch of Sex Ecologies.
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Solidarity Programmes: artists moving image works from Ukraine and Myanmar
Tuesday 22 March at Ambika P3, from 15.00 GMT
EF is proud to organise solidarity screenings featuring DEDICATED TO THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD II, by Ukrainian artists Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Khimei shot inside the Dovzhenko Film Studios; and two programmes of media arts and experimental films by a dynamic generation of young artists in Myanmar, curated by artist and founder of 3-ACT cinema magazine Moe Myat May Zarchi.
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Ecological Futurisms
Ecological Futurisms returns this autumn with a series of screenings, discussions and an exhibition, including a watch party of films selected from the Global Extraction Film Festival 2022, a screening and discussion around the issues raised by the Matters of Extraction network, the exhibition On-doing Undoing by Barby Asante, as well as a symposium and screening to celebrate the life and work of Diann Bauer.
ECOLOGICAL FUTURISMS (EF) is a collective of CREAM researchers exploring questions about collective futures.
Global Extraction Film Festival watch party
Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:00–18:00
Thursday 27 October 2022, 14:00–18:00
Ecological Futurisms is excited to hold a watch party of films selected from the Global Extraction Film Festival (GEFF) 2022. Come along to watch a selection of films that bring to attention the impact of extractive industries, climate change and the activist work and resistance that seeks to imagine and bring about a different future.
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Matters of Extraction: A Preamble
Thursday 3 November 2022, 12:00–22:30
Please join us for Matters of Extraction: A Preamble, an event that will feature a looped screening programme curated by Roshini Kempadoo in collaboration with Demo: Moving Image Experimental Politics from 12:00, and a discussion with Deborah Thomas, Alissa Trotz and Roshini Kempadoo chaired by Radha D’Souza with introductions by Christina Peake from 19:00, followed by a drinks reception.
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Barby Asante: On-doing Undoing
Private View
Thursday 10 November 2022, 18:00–21:00. Find tickets and more information here.
Declaration of Independence – performance
Saturday 12 November 2022, 19:00–20:00. Find tickets and more information here.
On-doing Undoing brings together Asante’s ongoing works Declaration of Independence and The Queen and the Black-Eyed Squint. Both works explore the legacies of coloniality, through performative actions that include reflecting on family histories, relationships to place, museum and archival practices and propositions for the future.
“Cohesion was meant to hold. But reality started to slide.“
Diann Bauer — An Appreciation
Saturday 19 November, 14:00–22:30
Please join us for a symposium and screening to celebrate the life and work of Diann Bauer, artist, writer, CREAM PhD researcher.
The event will feature: Alliance of the Southern Triangle, Bassam El Baroni, Bridget Crone, Keller Easterling, Helen Hester, Suhail Malik, Neal White, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Natalia Zuluaga, plus more to be confirmed.
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