{"id":26948,"date":"2022-07-29T08:59:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=26948"},"modified":"2022-09-02T09:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:17:57","slug":"talk-creative-ecologies-and-the-aesthetics-of-climate-justice","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/event\/talk-creative-ecologies-and-the-aesthetics-of-climate-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk &#8211; Creative Ecologies and the Aesthetics of Climate Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26244 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2022\/01\/colorful-crayons_sm-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Colorful crayons\" width=\"236\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2022\/01\/colorful-crayons_sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2022\/01\/colorful-crayons_sm-105x70.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2022\/01\/colorful-crayons_sm-317x212.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2022\/01\/colorful-crayons_sm.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,236px\" \/>The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Virtual attendance:<\/strong><\/em> Complete the <a href=\"https:\/\/maine.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZAtdu6pqzIsGNdx9us7Dp6MIB2jtZZ4I2pf\">registration form<\/a> to receive Zoom connection information.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>In-person attendance:<\/strong><\/em> Attendees must follow <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UMaine\u2019s COVID-19 guidelines<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> T.J. Demos, Professor and Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History and Visual Culture, Director, <a href=\"http:\/\/creativeecologies.ucsc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Creative Ecologies<\/a>, UC Santa Cruz<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/creativeecologies.ucsc.edu\/\">Center for Creative Ecologies<\/a> (CCE) provides a place to consider the intersection of culture and environment. The aim is to develop useful interdisciplinary research tools to examine how cultural practitioners\u2014filmmakers, new media strategists, photojournalists, architects, writers, activists, and interdisciplinary theorists\u2014critically address and creatively negotiate environmental concerns in the local, regional, and global field.<\/p>\n<p>Creative ecologies expand terms like \u201cenvironment\u201d and \u201cclimate\u201d to generative excess, avoiding disciplinary silos and technocratic solutions. They connect ecology-as-relationality\u2014between an organism and its environment\u2014to ecology-as-intersectionality\u2014as a matrix of power, oppression, and liberation operating through such social forces as gender, race, and class. Creative ecologies envision multispecies, social, and climate justice as its horizon. As a methodology formative to the Center for Creative Ecologies, which I founded in 2015 at UC Santa Cruz, creative ecologies (of interdisciplinary research, university-community partnerships, and multigenerational engagements) join with intersectionalist aesthetics and politics, advancing an art of climate justice. This presentation will discuss select projects of the CCE, along with specific art practices, which foreground art\u2019s relation to environmental and climate justice in the age of climate emergency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/havc.ucsc.edu\/faculty\/tj-demos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>T. J. Demos<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; research focuses on the intersections of contemporary art, radical politics, and ecology\u2014particularly where art, activism, and visual culture oppose racial, colonial, and extractive capitalism, and where they work towards social, economic, and environmental justice. He is the author of numerous books, including: <em>Beyond the World\u2019s End: Arts of Living at th<\/em><em>e Crossing<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2020), <em>Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and Political Ecology<\/em> (Sternberg Press, 2016), and <em>Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today<\/em>, (Sternberg Press, 2017). In Spring 2020, he was a Getty Research Institute Fellow working on a new book project on radical futurisms, and directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project <em>Beyond the End of the World<\/em> during 2019-21. Prof. Demos has also curated a number of exhibitions and film screening series, including <em>Beyond the World&#8217;s End<\/em> at Santa Cruz&#8217; Museum of Art and History (2020-21); <em>Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas<\/em>, at Nottingham Contemporary (2015); <em>Specters: A Cin\u00e9-Politics of Haunting<\/em>, at Madrid\u2019s Reina Sofia Museum (2014); and <em>Beyond the World\u2019s End<\/em> at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz (2019).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine. Virtual attendance: Complete the registration form to receive Zoom connection information. In-person attendance: Attendees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","spc_primary_tribe_events_cat":0},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[20],"class_list":["post-26948","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-ssi-events","cat_ssi-events"],"taxonomy_info":{"tribe_events_cat":[{"value":20,"label":"Mitchell Center Events"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/26948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/26948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27176,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/26948\/revisions\/27176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26948"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=26948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}