About
Worm: art +ecology is a long-term curatorial project that communicates climate change issues through contemporary art and creative practices. Since 2014, it has produced online and gallery exhibitions, interviews with practitioners and also delivers public workshops and talks that explore climate issues through intersectional frames.
Crossing disciplines to share different insights on climate and environmental realities, Worm: art + ecology encourages accessible approaches to these issues, working in collaboration with creative practitioners from groups that are systemically marginalised from often both the mainstream climate movement and the arts.
Worm: art + ecology strives to challenge the criteria for climate change expertise to centre climate justice. Central themes in the project’s artistic activities address racial and social justice as intrinsic to climate justice. They examine the history of climate change to create inclusive participation in dialogue with anti-colonial, decarbonised futures.
The project consists of:
Talks + workshops Worm: art +ecology delivers talks and workshops to the public, university classes and youth groups about art and intersectional climate change. Special focuses include the colonial history of climate change, everyday creative and environmental practices, as well as climate narratives through speculative fictions activities and concepts.
Exhibitions - Worm: art +ecology curates exhibitions both in physical gallery spaces and online to bring exciting and imaginative presentations that challenge the way we narrate and communicate the climate emergency.
Interviews - Worm: art +ecology speaks with practitioners working in the arts, activism, social engagement, research and beyond, to share how multi-faceted our collective perspectives on climate issues are.
Wormery - Worm: art +ecology intends to grow a database of rolling submissions from QTIBPOC climate-engaged practitioners, to present an online network of interdisciplinary activities. Like a wormery, it would be a rich mixing pot that fertilises the way we engage with creative actions against climate change. There are currently funds to support submissions - please get in touch!
Say hello to Worm!
Email wormplatform@gmail.com.
Follow on social media via the navigation bar.
Worm: art +ecology is a curatorial project run independently by Angela Chan (UK).
Angela Chan (angelaytchan.com) is a ‘creative climate change communicator’, an umbrella under which she works on a range of curatorial, research, art making and writing projects that are focused on intersectional approaches to climate change.
She holds an MA in Climate Change: History, Culture, Society (KCL), and her research interests span decolonial climate justice, geography, feminist sciences and contemporary sinophone science fiction. Angela collaborates widely with visual artists, activists, speculative fiction authors and youth groups. She co-founded the London Chinese Science Fiction Group, co-directs the London Science Fiction Research Community, and her writing is published in Science Fiction (2020, Whitechapel Gallery & MIT Press).
Recent projects include an Arts Council England DYCP research project on climate visual cultures in East Asia (2019), and an extensive exhibition project Climate Knowledges at MAMA in Rotterdam (2020). She has also been working with the youth groups at South London Gallery (summer 2019) and Wellcome Collection (present), centring climate change’s colonial history, youth climate and racial justice activism, as well as inclusive speculative futures and just worldbuilding.
Angela is currently part of the Chisenhale Gallery's Myco-Lective artist development programme, and is a FACT/Jerwood Arts Digital Fellow. She creates research projects with video recordings, communal conversations and speculative fiction.
She is open to work in the cultural, environmental, educational and literary sectors. CV available upon request.
Crossing disciplines to share different insights on climate and environmental realities, Worm: art + ecology encourages accessible approaches to these issues, working in collaboration with creative practitioners from groups that are systemically marginalised from often both the mainstream climate movement and the arts.
Worm: art + ecology strives to challenge the criteria for climate change expertise to centre climate justice. Central themes in the project’s artistic activities address racial and social justice as intrinsic to climate justice. They examine the history of climate change to create inclusive participation in dialogue with anti-colonial, decarbonised futures.
The project consists of:
Talks + workshops Worm: art +ecology delivers talks and workshops to the public, university classes and youth groups about art and intersectional climate change. Special focuses include the colonial history of climate change, everyday creative and environmental practices, as well as climate narratives through speculative fictions activities and concepts.
Exhibitions - Worm: art +ecology curates exhibitions both in physical gallery spaces and online to bring exciting and imaginative presentations that challenge the way we narrate and communicate the climate emergency.
Interviews - Worm: art +ecology speaks with practitioners working in the arts, activism, social engagement, research and beyond, to share how multi-faceted our collective perspectives on climate issues are.
Wormery - Worm: art +ecology intends to grow a database of rolling submissions from QTIBPOC climate-engaged practitioners, to present an online network of interdisciplinary activities. Like a wormery, it would be a rich mixing pot that fertilises the way we engage with creative actions against climate change. There are currently funds to support submissions - please get in touch!
Say hello to Worm!
Email wormplatform@gmail.com.
Follow on social media via the navigation bar.
Worm: art +ecology is a curatorial project run independently by Angela Chan (UK).
Angela Chan (angelaytchan.com) is a ‘creative climate change communicator’, an umbrella under which she works on a range of curatorial, research, art making and writing projects that are focused on intersectional approaches to climate change.
She holds an MA in Climate Change: History, Culture, Society (KCL), and her research interests span decolonial climate justice, geography, feminist sciences and contemporary sinophone science fiction. Angela collaborates widely with visual artists, activists, speculative fiction authors and youth groups. She co-founded the London Chinese Science Fiction Group, co-directs the London Science Fiction Research Community, and her writing is published in Science Fiction (2020, Whitechapel Gallery & MIT Press).
Recent projects include an Arts Council England DYCP research project on climate visual cultures in East Asia (2019), and an extensive exhibition project Climate Knowledges at MAMA in Rotterdam (2020). She has also been working with the youth groups at South London Gallery (summer 2019) and Wellcome Collection (present), centring climate change’s colonial history, youth climate and racial justice activism, as well as inclusive speculative futures and just worldbuilding.
Angela is currently part of the Chisenhale Gallery's Myco-Lective artist development programme, and is a FACT/Jerwood Arts Digital Fellow. She creates research projects with video recordings, communal conversations and speculative fiction.
She is open to work in the cultural, environmental, educational and literary sectors. CV available upon request.
