February 28 – March 21, 2023
with 4 live online sessions on February 28, March 7, 14 & 21, 2023, each day from 4 – 6 pm
Many thanks to the artist Dorine van Meel for the online seminar TOWARDS A WORLD SHIP: Understanding the Ecological Crisis through Arts and discussing the contributions of our participants within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
“The unfolding ecological catastrophe is one of the most pressing challenges of our times. The devastating consequences of economies based on extraction and exhaustion can be found in dilapidated lands, rivers, seas and oceans, forests, animals, plants and peoples. In this course we will look at a few theoretical texts as well as poems that discuss the climate crisis and its foundations as it unfolds on different islands located from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea. The threads of rising sea levels, dying coral reefs and multiplying storms are only further additions to the ongoing violence of the (neo-)colonialist practices that have devastated the different islands and their many inhabitants for centuries already. As a participant of this course you will be invited to respond to these texts via short writing assignments, which will take the form of letters / emails, interviews, reflections, and short videos. We will take Ferdinands proposal of building a world ship as a prompt for the assignments.” (Text by courtesy of Dorine van Meel)
More information on the Dorine van Meel Website.
