This presentation from T.J. Demos, will consider how various environmental crises (distinct but not unrelated) are increasingly bringing about forced displacements of life from different territories鈥攊ncluding the Maldives, the Arctic, and Fukushima. These contexts offer ways of approaching the intertwinement of political ecology, environmental crisis, forced migration, and artistic/activist aesthetics in the current global moment, a nexus that appears posed to become only more critical in the near future.聽
T.J. Demos is critic and Reader in the Department of Art History, University College London. He writes on contemporary art and politics, and is the author, most recently, of聽The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During 福利着片 Crisis聽(Duke University Press, 2013), and聽Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art聽(Sternberg Press, 2013). He recently guest edited a special issue of聽Third Text聽(no. 120, 2013) on the subject of 鈥淐ontemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology,鈥� and is currently at work on a book on the subject for Sternberg Press.
Date and Time: Wednesday 6 November, 16:00 鈥� 18:00
Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Level 2, Eastside Building, Winchester School of Art
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