www.sunlightdoesntneedapipeline.com. Low-Carbon Design by Studio Hyte. Image: Courtesy me.
Greetings Art Workers!
I am so proud and thrilled to launch Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline, a collaborative literacy and climate justice project in search of transformative and regenerative repair. A coalition of art workers, agitators, dream weavers, growers and caregivers have co-created a holistic and ever-growing decarbonisation plan for the art sector and beyond.
Through collective study our coalition asks questions such as: How can intergenerational wealth help communities in the face of climate emergency? What would it mean if we took museums “to the orchards”? What configurations of life are possible after restitution? Is it possible to replace carbon literacy with love? Together we call for solutions to the climate crisis that not only reduce emissions but reconfigure repair to create a fairer and more just world in the process.
You can access the website here: https://sunlightdoesntneedapipeline.com/
The plan is a gift to art workers in their own decarbonisation journeys. We will be releasing content throughout September and October 2022.
Community Festival and Teach-In: Friday 7 October, all day.
Join us at Stanley Picker Gallery and online on 7th October for the Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline community festival and teach-in! Featuring commissioned talks, performances, film screenings, refreshments and music, as well as a public vote where the community will decide on a decarbonisation plan for the Gallery.
All welcome.
Commissions include The Anti-Offsetting Primer by Luiza Prado, with contributions by Chanelle Adams, Maxwell Ayamba, Sarah Mady, Amazoner Arawak; Elena Agudio, Right to Rest (In Peace) by Chanelle Adams, [Dis]Entangle Conceptualisations of Nature, Fossil-Fuelled Progress, and the Self by Tatjana Soding & guests, Genocídio Yanomami de Haximu a Palimiu (Yanomami Genocide from Haximu to Palimiu) by Amazoner Arawak (dir.) & team, Our Community Inheritance by Cecilia Wee & Grenfell Community, A Pluriversal Ledger by Samuel Onalo & Dani Admiss, Open Curriculum by Susannah Haslam with contributions by Araceli Camargo, Megha Ralapati, Charles Pryor, Apex Zero & Lou-Atessa Marcellin, Digital Decarbonisation Consensus & Conjectures by Anne Pasek & guests, Vague Decay Now! Sean Roy Parker & Lauren Doughty, The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint by Ellie Harrison in conversation with Sophie Hope, Access, Inclusion, Low Carbon by Studio Hyte, interventions by Taey Iohe and Marija Bozinovska Jones and more!
Film screenings: Moving Upstream Ganga (2021) Shridhar Sudhir (dir.), Carbon & Captivity (2020) Oliver Ressler (dir.), Offshore (2021) Hazel Falck (dir.) commissioned by Platform London. On the day there will be music by Kingston Stylophone Orchestra and food by Save the World Club!
Throughout October there will be workshops by Lou-Atessa Marcellin, The Grange, The Community Brain, Hogsmill Community Garden, Writers’ Kingston, Dr Heba ElSharkawy and many more.
See you next month!
Dani