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Fossil Free Fest // Equity, Complicity, Vision to Action

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“This is the transition, and we need to ask ourselves if we are going to move with it or if we are going to stay behind in a past that is really oppressing and repressing all of us.” -Imani Jacqueline Brown

WTUL joined  organizers and artists Imani Jacqueline Brown, Monique Verdin, Jayeesha Dutta, and Katie Mathews to talk about the upcoming Fossil Free Fest. 

Fossil Free Fest- presented by Antenna- is a week-long festival featuring films, art, food, music, and roundtable discussion to provide an intentional public forum to explore the ethics and complexities of funding art and education with fossil fuel money. 

In our conversation, we talk about how this festival (and beyond) is an opportunity for raising collective consciousness, asking what price we pay for pleasure/leisure, honoring the communities we serve, and finding power in our complicity. 

The festival is free and open to the public and will take place April 2nd-April 8th with films, art, music, food, and discussion at The Broad Theater, Joan Mitchell Center, Grow Dat Youth Farm, and Ace Hotel. Find the full schedule and register for events at fossilfreefest.org/schedule/.

[davegreber]

This weekend would have been #fossilfreefest - @hnnh.chlw and I were developing this installation which was going to be installed at @growdatyouthfarm I was really excited about it... I hope we still have the chance to fully realize it some day! Fossil Free Festival (FFF) is a biennial gathering around art, music, films, food, and difficult conversations about the ethics and complexities of funding art and education with fossil fuel philanthropy. It is a dedicated and open space for Louisiana to imagine and design a #FossilFreeCulture @antenna.works (at Grow Dat Youth Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Ic0FwF5Ts/?igshid=3twrstrjg0ps

[naomivccp-blog]

Week 7

This article by Sumugan Sivasen discusses the modes of protest by artists against and among institutions. Broader movements such as Occupy have encouraged speculation around modes of consumption and those ideologies, triggering the art world to think about how and why art institutions are now sites of struggle in this space of culture, politics and economics. Sivasen draws from four forms of protest including movements, safespaces and networks highlighting ever-present examples where artists working with such institutions subvert their authority.

The question of the art discourse being a critical one also challenges the broad notions of social good of institutions in an economically cultivated and contradictory environment. This article ties in with ideas articulated in Fraser’s reading of critiquing the institution and the contradictions and conflicts when working in such spaces. For example the intersection of funding sources and art making also now see a growing number of artists using these institutions (like Museums or Biennale’s) to focus on social justice through community based art practices.

Sivansen, Sumugan. 2016.”Institutional Reform: Art as Anti-Statecraft.” Runway Australian Experimental Art. Accessed 2 April 2017. http://runway.org.au/institutional-reform-art-as-anti-statecraft/

[sav-age-ry]

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activism x Fossil Free Culture 📸 @sav.age.rynyc

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10 activists arrested for creating oily footprints in the Louvre

10 activists arrested for creating oily footprints in the Louvre

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“Oil stains art and makes it ugly.”

This statement, tweeted by climate change activist and 350.org founder Bill McKibben, was the basic philosophy behind a fossil fuel protest at the Louvre, one of the world’s largest art museums, on Wednesday.

The protest was part of a larger movement called “Keep It in the Ground,” an initiative aimed at preventing new drilling of fossil fuel resources,…