Session at Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference, Royal Geographic Society and Imperial College, London, UK, August 29 to September 1, 2023. 

Mobilities of Climate Responsive Artistic Research

Organised by Dr Nicholas Ferguson (Kingston School of Art and Richmond the American University in London) 

The spectre of environmental catastrophe is rapidly reshaping mobilities of artistic research. In the Global North they are marked by a scramble for residencies, often in the company of scientists, in places where the effects of climate change can be acutely felt. Similarly, intervening in the entangled domains of ethnography, politics and science, artists are visiting indigenous peoples in remote places in search of wisdom that might negate late modernity’s disconnect from nature. Around the globe there are migrations to and from protest camps in contested sites or to metropolitan centres where, in the vicinity of museums, monuments, and other symbolic institutions that underscore relations between climate change and imperialism, artists bring conceptually creative and/or sensuous approaches to climate activism. All of these necessitate still more carbon emitting journeys, thousands every day and many by air, to disseminate new knowledge on a burgeoning international circuit of exhibitions, speaking engagements and art fairs. 

This panel critically engages with these mobilities. We seek 20-minute papers from around the globe that examine the movement and spatiality of climate responsive artistic practices. We ask: 
What are the mobilities of climate responsive artistic research? How do they modifying patterns of travel historically inscribed in art and exhibition making? What are the opportunities, limitations, and contradictions of these mobilities in the context of the climate emergency? And to what possible futures for geographies of artistic research do these limitations point? 

300-word abstracts by March 12, 2023 to:

Dr Nicholas Ferguson, Kingston School of Art:  	[log in to unmask] 

We are intending the session to be live and in-person. If you are only interested in presenting virtually then please email us in the first instance. It may be possible request a live hybrid slot, but the RGS guidance suggests that there will be a very limited number of slots for this option.

Further details on the RGS Annual Conference are available at:
https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/

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