Who needs artists in a climate crisis?
According to Margaret Atwood, we’re no longer talking about climate change; we are facing ‘everything change’. There are infinite adjustments to make - so what's the importance of artists in these transitions? Jen Rae has been practicing at the intersection of arts and climate emergency for the past 10 years. Join her as she shares what she's learned from practicing across cultures and disciplines to find the place of artists in the climate catastrophe.
Bio
Dr. Jen Rae is a Narrm (Melbourne)-based artist-researcher of Canadian Métis-Scottish descent. Her fifteen-year practice-led research expertise is in the discursive field of contemporary environmental art and arts-based environmental communication. It is centred around cultural responses to climate change, specifically the role of artists. Her work is engaged in discourses around food in/security, disaster preparedness, and speculative futures, predominantly articulated through transdisciplinary collaborative methodologies and community alliances. She is the Creative Lead of Fair Share Fare, a board member of the International Environmental Communication Association and the Creative Recovery Network (AUS), and has lectured at the postgraduate level in socially-engaged art and performance at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University.
8:00pm @Bar Ampere, 17 Russell Place Melbourne VIC 3000.
Also speaking at this location at 6:30pm is Jefa Greenaway and at 9:30pm is Angharad Wynne-Jones.
This event is hosted in a venue that is wheelchair accessible.
Please reach out to knowledge@melbourne.vic.gov.au to request an Auslan interpreter for this event.
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