Resist, Persist: Gender, Climate and Colonialism: Saba Khan, Buhle Francis, Imani Jacqueline Brown
Channel: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Date: 2024-03-27

Thursday 7th - Friday 8th December 2023

Speakers: Bindi Vora; Saba Khan, Water Machines; Buhle Francis, Grandmothers of the Sea: Stories and Lessons from Five Xhosa Ocean Elders; and Imani Jacqueline Brown, Our first name for this region was 'Home': Bringing other worlds into being in 'Cancer Alley', Louisiana

This symposium connects thinking from the Barbican’s exhibition, RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology and the Paul Mellon Centre's multi-year project, Climate & Colonialism. Bringing together researchers, designers, artists and activists from a range of backgrounds, the symposium is interested in the intersections of ongoing colonial histories and feminist and queer ecologies.
We invite submissions of proposals for short (eight-minute) propositions that explore artistic and creative practice in response to one or more of the following prompts:
How is climate change, in its many guises, a site for probing (and even troubling) the overlap of colonialism and sex and gendered oppression?
While derided for decades for its purported essentialism, ecofeminism is resurging as a focal point of art, discourse and practice. How can we account for this? (How) Is this connected to climate change and its colonial drivers?
How do elemental and material worlds shape colonial and gendered power structures and how do these structures shape those worlds in return?