Stichword-Archiv: cosmopolitics

Art and the global environmental crisis: a discussion with T.J. Demos 

Tuesday, March 2 at 19:15 CET (Leipzig), 20:15 EET (Athens), online

T. J. Demos is Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely on the intersection of visual culture, radical politics, and political ecology—particularly where it opposes racial and colonial capitalism—and is the author of several books, including Beyond the World’s End: Arts of Living at the Crossing (Duke University Press, 2020), Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and Political Ecology (Sternberg Press, 2016), and Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today, (Sternberg Press, 2017). Demos curated Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas, at Nottingham Contemporary (2015); Specters: A Ciné-Politics of Haunting, at Madrid’s Reina Sofia Museum (2014); and Beyond the World’s End at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz (2019). In Spring 2020, he was a Getty Research Institute Fellow, and during 2019-21 directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project Beyond the End of the World. He is working on a new book on radical futurisms.

Moderated by reading group participants (Joachim Blank, Andrea Garcia Vasquez, Brigita Kasperaite, Eleni Michaelidi, Olga Vostretsova, Maria Zervoudaki and Magdalena Zotou), with the participation of Nikos Arvanitis, Fabian Lehmann and students of the program. A transcript of the discussion will be published later in 2021.