6.30-7.30pm
97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL (map)
Curator and researcher Dani Admiss and researcher, artist and curator Angela YT Chan discussed their work on art and climate justice and Admiss’ Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline, a community-led collective decarbonisation plan for the art sector and beyond. Listen to the recording of this event below.
This event was part of Revision, a research and events programme that explored repair, collaboration and evaluation from 16 November 2022 - 1 February 2023.
BIOGRAPHIES
Dr Dani Admiss is an English-Iranian artist, curator, researcher and educator based in Edinburgh, UK. She uses social practices to explore how narratives of science, technology and colonialism show up in our everyday communities and lived experiences. Admiss develops co-created and public engagement projects, investigations and networks that bring together everyday people and in-world experts to dream and demand robust futures. Her Fellowship project Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline explores and enacts just transition in the arts. Across 2022, a coalition of art workers, agitators, dream weavers, makars, and caregivers, co-created a bottom-up and open-source decarbonisation plan for art workers. Admiss has curated projects across the UK, Europe and internationally including at the Barbican Centre, Somerset House, MAAT, Lisbon and Lisbon Architecture Triennale.
Angela YT Chan is an independent researcher, curator and artist. Her work reconfigures power in relation to the inequity of climate change, through self-archiving, rethinking geographies and speculative fiction. Her recent research-art commissions span climate framings, water scarcity and conflict, and has held residencies with Arts Catalyst, FACT/Jerwood Arts’ Digital Fellowship and Sonic Acts’ environmental research residency. She co-founded the London Chinese Science Fiction Group and co-directs the London Science Fiction Research Community. Angela is also a research consultant, having worked in international climate and cultural policy and on climate and sustainability projects for major cultural institutions and is part of Worm: art + ecology.
