● ACT - Art Climate Transition

Fundacao Caixa Geral de Depositos-Culturgest (PT)

Lokomotiva centre for new initiatives in arts and culture (MK), Domino Udruge (HR), Coal (FR), Kaaitheater vzw (BE), Kampnagel internationale kulturfabrik gmbh (DE), Latvijas jauna teatra instituts (LV), Bunker zavod za organizacijo in izvedbo, kulturnih prireditev (SI), Artsadmin (UK), Stichting Theater Rotterdam (NL)

State of the art

Ours is an age of climate breakdown, mass extinction, loss of biodiversity and of increasing populist tendencies. These phenomena are closely interlinked. The arts need to be connected to the the most urgent agenda today: act, towards a just transition.

Description of the project

ACT was initiated by 10 cultural operators from 10 European countries, working in the field of performing and visual arts. ACT maintains the focus on arts, ecology and climate change, but connects this to the issues of inequality, climate justice and urban ecologies. The agenda of a ‘just transition’ defines the cooperation of the partners. Shared values are embedded in their choice of the artists, the structure of the project and the ways audiences are engaged. Partners combine and learn from each others’ practices that provide place for ‘cultures of othering’, or ‘futuring’. The project supports the work of artists via coproductions and invite them to explore the issues adressed and raised by the project through commissioned work.

A just transition is urgently needed : a transition that is based on our ethical awareness and ecological understanding of interaction between species, humans and their political and natural environments

Creative Europe’s support

Projects partner state: “In the ACT project our differences are our strenghts. We learn from and share each others formats and practices. We provide our artists with opportunities to develop their work and connect it to various European localities”.

#performing arts #visual arts #climate #social transition #transition #justice

Learning to impact

As part of its “Learning to Impact” work package, ACT provides a focus on the many faces of “Impact” in the arts world: what is the role of impact in art practices? How are art practices themselves impacted? Many contributions can be found in the project website.

Contact

artclimatetransition.eu