Bukás ang Mga Bukas: A speculative climate futures workshop
Bukás ang Mga Bukas: A speculative climate futures workshop
“Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.””
For our first installation of tala Open House, we will be hosting a community space on April 18 at rift gallery, gathering environmentalists, storytellers, artists, and community organizers to talk about speculative design and our climate futures, proposing collective dreaming, world-building and imagination as sites of resistance.
Beyond restating NGO climate campaign calls or sharing artistic interpretations of a world in peril, what might interdisciplinary gatherings like this offer? We propose that it is politically necessary to gather and reclaim our agency amidst the realities of climate change and a national energy emergency through a safe space that allows us to grieve the current socio-ecological landscape, articulate our visions for the future beyond our fields, and build with our hands imagined artifacts of a more just future.
Fighting the corporate capture of Earth Day as an individualist, capitalist feel-good commemoration of false climate solutions, we hope to inspire ties between these different publics into a longer-term alliance between artists, organizers, and the academe in realizing the political necessity of gatherings, teach-ins, and open physical spaces for collective dreaming in our pursuit of intersectional climate justice.
Panel speakers: Pecier Decierdo, Krishna Ariola, Jaya Ariola, Maria Nilad, Tonio Flores
Just Futures Artifacts Workshop on speculative climate design facilitator: Beatrice Tulagan
Venue partner: rift gallery
We carry with us the following questions:
What ruptures are we witnessing in our ecologies that are most painful to us, and how are they mirrored in our social movements and fields? What are we losing? What are our beloveds sacrificing? How is climate injustice present for us materially?
With everything we love at stake in a world in peril, how are we rewilding our imagination of what is possible through movements such as lo-tek, solarpunk, mutual aid and world-building in our practice of art and activism?
What are the speculative practices present in storytelling, art, agroecology, community care and activism that inspire us? What do they make us feel?
How might we hold each other through these uncertain times? How do we practice enduring this world for each other and tending to our hope “as a discipline”?
We invite our guests to contribute a minimum of Php 200 to support tala storytelling collective’s public storytelling programming, which consists of the Open House series and our pro-bono narrative strategy support for local communities fighting for climate justice.
You can read more about our co-created storytelling campaign with the Nuclear-Free Bataan Movement here.
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