Carbon - Borders - Voices is a growing interdisciplinary conversation involving research and practice focusing on coastal/border places of transition within the context of climate crisis. We envisage a space for interaction, exchange, debate and collaboration between the arts and sciences at this critical moment in time.
We would like to invite you to the project launch of Carbon-Borders-Voices (C-B-V); on the evening of January 24th 2022 via Zoom with presentations, readings, and a discussion.
Following the launch, we will post the submissions on Instagram and the website. We plan to feature 2 artist/writer submissions a day.
Our staged release of works will centre attention on each submission and its contribution to research and practice focusing on coastal/border places of transition within the context of climate crisis. By introducing our audience to two contributions at a time we aim to incrementally explore the relationships between the different submissions – those published together, and within the whole body of work as it evolves. This will culminate in a broad discussion inspired by the varied responses to our theme, and the collaboration between the arts and sciences at this critical moment in time.
Later in 2022, when our daily postings are complete, we will be looking to extend the project with a physical exhibition in a suitable venue.
Once again thank you for your interest in C-B-V - we think we have an extraordinary collection of work, and we can't wait to begin making it public! If you get the opportunity, please do share info about the launch and our Instagram and website links. Please get in contact if you have any questions.
Here's wishing you all the best for the upcoming holiday season, and the new year. Take care and we look forward to seeing C-B-V unfold in 2022.
The conversation began when artists Kevin Parker and Matt Fratson, and Professor of Tropical Ecology Rob Marchant (University of York), met to discuss individual research, experiences and stories in response to the prompt ‘Above, Below, at the Edge of the Water’ via the Art Journal ‘The Critical Fish’. The intention was to share research and practice and explore synergies.
The time we spent together, over several hours on Zoom, opened up discussions, comparisons and relationships. We examined political and socio-economic concerns in relation to climate change, impacts on community life and welfare, and the psychogeography of locations struggling to reconcile the known with an unknown and rapidly shifting present-day landscape. Together with ‘The Critical Fish’ co-director Jill Howitt, we have decided to open up this conversation to the wider community, to create new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.
As we head towards the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November there is another opportunity to make hard choices about the future the world wants. Clearly the time for inaction and kicking the ‘climate change can’ further down the road has passed - there is need to raise the bar on action. The state of the emergency has been brought home by floods, record heat, fires and ensuing lack of adaptation measures in place to deal with this challenge. The climate emergency and COP26 is not just an opportunity for scientists, politicians and economists to come together - this is an opportunity to respond collectively by building relationships through the sharing of work which may otherwise be isolated, and to foster meaningful associations in cross-cultural counterpoint.
STILL TO COME
Following on from here we aim to hold a physical exhibition, building on the connections which develop from this digital exhibition. We aim to hold this in an appropriate geographical location and venue.
Thank you for reading, and we hope that you enjoy taking part. We are happy to chat about our first digital exhibition with you and answer any questions you might have - please contact us over email at carbon.borders.voices@gmail.com, or via DM on Instagram.
Jill, Kevin, Rob and Matt