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PRAKSIS’s 30th group residency, Climate / Coloniality, brings together eleven artists and researchers to explore the relationships between colonialism’s legacies—enduring systems of power, culture and knowledge—and the unequally distributed effects of climate breakdown.
The event offers a space to share knowledge about this urgent and complex field, map connections, weave new solidarities, imagine spaces for collective action and view/participate in residency outcomes. Planned and presented by residents Dilşad Aladağ (Turkey/Germany), Eline Benjaminsen (Norway), Danny Butt (Australia), Liselli Grunwald (Norway/France/Trinidad), Ayesha Jordan (Norway/USA), Sonia Levy (UK/France), Eline McGeorge (Norway), Helly Minarti (Indonesia), Belén Santillán (Ecuador/Norway), Kurniawan Adi Saputro (Indonesia), and Ruth de Souza (Australia).
Programme
13:30–15:30: Short film screenings, open discussion, readings and a Q&A on art, infrastructure, methods and ethics.
15:30–16:30: Conversation and refreshments: free soup
16:30–19:30: A welcoming, informal mix of short performances, presentations and conversation. Includes a short lecture on Artistic Methods in a Climate of Denial.
Attenders are welcome to stay for either or both sessions.
About the residents
Dilşad Aladağ (Turkey/Germany) is a researcher and artist whose work uses archival research and interdisciplinary practice to investigate landscapes, ecological politics and speculative spatial narratives.
Eline Benjaminsen (Norway) explores the intersections of finance, ecology and market logic via camera-based narratives that blend documentary and experimental approaches.
Danny Butt (Australia) is a senior lecturer, interdisciplinary artist and member of APARN. His research and practice explore knowledge production, colonial hospitality and the politics of artistic platforms within educational and community contexts.
Liselli Grunwald (Norway/France/Trinidad) is an artist and scenographer whose research-led practice seeks to imagine reparative futures via the exploration of ecology, identity and collective storytelling.
Ayesha Jordan (Norway/USA) is a multidisciplinary performer and creator whose work draws on permaculture, regenerative community practices and ritual-making to generate collaborative, decolonial modes of artistic production.
Sonia Levy (UK/France) is an artist and filmmaker whose interdisciplinary work investigates Western extractive logics and their impact on hydrosocial worlds.
Eline McGeorge (Norway) uses material research, site-specific inquiry, diverse media and feminist perspectives to explore extraction, democracy and ecological decline.
Helly Minarti (Indonesia) is a curator, dramaturg and APARN member whose work explores historical and critical perspectives on body, consciousness and nature, and proposes choreography as a form of knowledge.
Belén Santillán (Ecuador/Norway) is an artist and educator whose collaborative public programmes navigate the intersections of critical pedagogy, institutional critique and collective learning.
Kurniawan Adi Saputro (Indonesia) is a researcher, lecturer and APARN member whose work focuses on visual media, climate justice, and the role of local knowledge in environmental activism.
Ruth de Souza (Australia) is a researcher and leader in health equity, with expertise in cultural safety and migrant health. She has led initiatives like the Centre for Asian and Migrant Health Research and served as Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow at RMIT University.
Climate / Coloniality is developed in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Research network (APARN) and supported by Nordic Culture Fund and the Faculty of Fine Art and Music at the University of Melbourne.
