At the edge of climate catastrophe:

Art, culture, ecology and policy making in the 21^st century

Conference/  May 20-21, 2022

@ Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje

“Culture is an important part of humanity. Development agencies, religious leaders, and academic institutions are increasingly recognising its central role in the political, economic and social life of communities. A focus on culture is important to environmentalists as well as to traditional communities. Too often, when we talk about conservation, we don’t think about culture. But we human beings have evolved in the environment in which we find ourselves. For every one of us, wherever we were, the environment shaped us: it shaped our values; it shaped our bodies; it shaped our religion. It really defined who we are and how we see ourselves.”

Wangari Maathai: The Cracked Mirror, Resurgence Magazine, November 11, 2004

This conference was conceptualized as a platform that brings together theoreticians and practitioners of various kinds to share and discuss knowledge about the possible ways of transforming the future into a livable one, for both humans and non-humans (in an ecofeminist, post-colonial framework of care, solidarity and anticapitalism). The conference is part of the activity “Other Spaces”, from the EU project “ACT – Art, Climate, Transition”, which consists of lectures, discussions, artistic research, discursive programmes and other formats. Through them, we try to open up spaces for reflecting, questioning and mapping the role and responsibility of culture and art in our society and their political action; including their relation to issues of extractivism, erosion/appropriation and preservation/development of the commons and the environmental catastrophe.

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ACT: Art Climate Transition/ Your birds, our birds – campaign

Opening of a mural painting of the Egyptian Vulture by Dorotej Neshovski

Children’s workshop for mural painting and making bird masks

Lecture and presentation for the Egyptian Vulture by Nenad Petrovski 

Friday, May 13, 2022/ 9:00 – 12:00 

@ primary school “Goce Delchev”, Skopje

Lokomotiva аs partner of the project ACT: Art Climate Transition,  is one of the partners in the campaign “Your birds, our birds” which is organized in Marseille and in the member countries of the ACT network in Europe. The campaign brings together 10 cultural and art organizations from 10 European countries that will create a mural and a programmme to give visibility for a certain rare bird in the region in which they operate. The project ACT puts the stories of these 10 murals into a collection across Europe, to be presented September 2022 online and onsite.

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