Worm: art + ecology's exhibition, Climate Knowledges, at MAMA Rotterdam, can now be viewed through photo documentation and its virtual exhibition space. The exhibition and project text can be read here.

Climate Knowledges has been translated by game designers Louisa Teichmann and Noemi Biro as a virtual exhibition. For a quick access link click here.

Worm: art + ecology / Angela's note for MAMA's Newsletter
15 May 2020

"As the seasons change, I hope that the sun may bring us a glimpse of warmth and clarity in these uncertain and challenging times.

It’s been a pleasure to have produced Climate Knowledges with everyone at MAMA, and the artists, SF writer and activists, whose works remain presented in the space. If you walk by on Witte de Withstraat, you’ll still see the bright orange shelf that holds the Climate Visual Cultures Library; Annie Mackinnon’s soft painted sculptures beckoning like plants towards the light of the windows; Jessica El Mal’s collage hangings swaying to the gentle murmurs in the air, and Josèfa Ntjam’s densely animated and enveloping wall graphics that silently narrate her halted film installation. Science fiction writer Regina Kanyu Wang’s queer ecology story no longer sounds through the headphones or speakers onto the street, but like the sight of Climate Knowledges from the other side of its closed doors, you can sense how each piece resonates with the story it’s committed to tell.

As with most of us, I’ve been re-pacing and re-prioritising since returning home for lockdown, which the UK remains in, redistributing time and resources to mutual aid initiatives that are vital for many right now. In the more recent couple of weeks, Climate Knowledges re-emerged with Chihiro Geuzebroek leading a warming and motivating online workshop on decolonial protest songs, as part of the Climate Visual Cultures Library programming. With a group of wonderful participants creating protest songs together, it was an energising collective boost for us that reiterated the urgency of ongoing decolonial climate justice activism. Later next month, I’m looking forward to artist Annie Mackinnon’s upcoming online session on collective futures, please keep following MAMA for updates.

As with the announcement in this newsletter, I’m also excited to see the virtual Climate Knowledges exhibition, a project by game designers Louisa and Noemi, brought together by Gari at MAMA. I hope that it may give you a pleasant distraction to the current everyday, and that you may enjoy speculating with us through watching some short films, listening or reading the story, and becoming familiar and supportive of the decolonial climate activism in the Netherlands.

For me, Climate Knowledges has been a vibrant project that's visualised some of my research in climate change history, global science fiction, decolonial climate justice and geography. As I hand over to my amazing peers WorkNot! for MAMA's following programme, I’d like to say a huge thank you to the team at MAMA (Wouter, Nathalie, Gari, Felicitas, Kim, Nadiah and Aala, Team MAMA and the build-up crew).

Angela Chan | programme maker of Climate Knowledges"

Room 1



Regina Kanyu Wang
The Story of Dǎo (2019)
Audio narrated by Tessa Qiu (2020), 22:50 minutes





Annie Mackinnon
A Sublime Sky, A Technological Eye (2020)
Sculpture and video, 10:42 minutes







Climate Visual Cultures Library

Chihiro Geuzebroek
Radical Friends Song (2014) and Shell Must Fall Protest Song (2019) Illustrated Lyrics

Fossil Free Culture NL
Dissonance Acts 1, 2 and 3 (2019) Photographs and leaflets

Wij Stoppen Steenkool
Photographs

Teresa Borasino
GIVE A SHIT! (2015) Printed toilet roll

Free West Papua Campaign NL / Raki Ap Photographs





Room 2





Jessica El Mal
Grounds for Concern (2020)
Installation





Josèfa Ntjam
Alchemical Tract of a Beta World (2020)
3 channel video and wall graphic installation, 11:58 minutes









Virtual Climate Knowledges by MAMA



The virtual exhibition space is now online and is best visited by desktop. Please visit this link.

Photos:Lotte Stekelenburg
Virtual screenshots: Worm: art + ecology

Climate Knowledges was generously funded by: