The Climate Visual Cultures Library is an evolving archive of visual material from campaigns by Indigenous, Black and people of colour climate activists, who organise in the Netherlands. Initiated by Worm: art + ecology together with local activists for the exhibition project Climate Knowledges at MAMA in Rotterdam, the CVC Library extends on the many types of knowledges that shape our understanding, communication and action towards climate change issues.

With contributions so far spanning posters, pamphlets, stickers, texts, song lyrics… and a policy-printed toilet roll, the CVC Library encourages learning, sharing and discussion. It presents the long and ongoing history of the climate justice movement led by Indigenous, Black and people of colour, who show that climate resistances are inseparable from the wider global social justice, human rights and decolonial independence campaigns.

Illustrating the solidarity networks in the Netherlands that are opposed to the racism and whitewashing in the mainstream climate movement, the Climate Visual Cultures Library is a way to maintain Indigenous, Black and people of colour authorship over climate justice stories. The CVC library aims to grow with new contributions and remain hosted in the Netherlands beyond the exhibition run, to document the visual culture of this climate justice movement.

Contributors:
Chihiro Geuzebroek (Radical Friends (film, 2014), Shell Must Fall, Climate Liberation Bloc, Aralez)
Teresa Borasino
Fossil Free Culture NL
Wij Stoppen Steenkool
Free West Papua Campaign NL

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Photo credit: Lotte Stekelenburg