The MOCA Climate Conversations series seeks to create a space for collective learning and dialogue, providing a platform for engaging with pressing topics, fostering awareness, and inspiring action around the diverse facets of climate, culture, and environmental justice.
Session 1: Artist-Led Activism
Isfald (Excerpt) by Jacob Kirkegaard
This sound work captures the deep booms of calving icebergs and the high pitched crackling of melting ice. Commissioned for the Louisiana Museum and recorded in Greenland in 2013. Excerpted work is courtesy of the artist.
Throughlines: Water, kinship, and artist-led activism
Speakers: Adrianne Ramsey, Emma Robbins, Isabella Robbins
This program follows the fluid connections between water, activism, and k'é, the Navajo system of kinship. Diné sisters Emma Robbins, an artist and activist, and Isabella Robbins, an art historian, will explore creative placemaking on and away from their homelands in conversation with arts editor and independent curator Adrianne Ramsey.
Overlapping Ecologies: Sky High Farm’s transdisciplinary approach to food sovereignty
Panelists: Josh Bardfield, Dan Colen, Laura Copelin, Li Schmidt, Sarah Workneh
This panel explores Sky High Farm’s transdisciplinary approach to food sovereignty through adaptive strategies that form an ecosystem of activities at the intersection of arts, public health, agriculture, and climate. The discussion will span Sky High’s evolutionary journey from growing food for donation for the urgent food system, to training the next generation of land stewards, to making grants to build a more equitable food system, and deploying community-based educational programming for youth that centers arts, cooking, agriculture, and climate.
Session 2: Coastal Communities
Ancient Stories, Great Floods, and Future Earth
Speaker: Dr Benjamin Strauss
The Book of Genesis, Hindu epics, and indigenous stories from across the world all hide historical lessons about what we can expect if we continue to heat up our planet and melt the ice that's still left. This program weaves together these ancient flood narratives, historic sea level and flood reconstructions, and future sea level rise projections to illustrate the impact that ever-encroaching waters have on human life. In retelling these stories, Dr Benjamin Strauss carries forward lessons from our ancestors and posits how we can be better ancestors to future generations by mitigating our climate impact.
An Age of Adaptation: Lessons in place-keeping for coastal cities
Speaker: Dr Kristina Hill
From ancient Mesopotamians to the Mexica and Maldives peoples, humans have embraced living with higher water. Entire cultures have developed around high coastal groundwater by floating agriculture and buildings, or digging urban canals, mounds and superdikes. Specific constraints and aspirations can drive cities to adaptation instead of retreat, and California is well positioned to lead the world in building new urban districts that learn from the ancient past.
Part of MOCA’s environmental programming, MOCA Climate Conversations are organized by Kelsey Shell, Environmental and Sustainability Strategist, with Alitzah Oros, Public Programming Associate, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
The 2023 MOCA Climate Conversations are made possible by Nora McNeely Hurley and Manitou Fund.
28 фев 2024
