Climate Forum IV: Our world lives when their world ceases to exist

Climate Forum IV: “Calls for Climate Stop”   

The discussion will consider how the deployment of indigeneity intersects with natural landscapes and institutional frameworks, and the distribution of responsibilities that art institutions assume in their shift towards recognising and integrating indigenous perspectives. This session will explore the financialisaton of indigeneity, reflecting on what elements are being mobilised around indigeneity in the context of eco-crises and world-making and drawing from May-Britt Öhman’s (2022) text “Settler Colonialism in Ungreen, Climate-Unfriendly Disguise and As a Tool for Genocide” This text unravels the “goodness regime” that seems to permeate the external image of the Nordic countries and also unsettles the “green image” and addresses the eco-noir that the Nordic context has also produced. Reading this text and situation in relation to the “Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto”, which proposes other imaginaries for a counter-capitalist and accumulation-oriented projection of possible futures.   

This builds upon previous events, open to participants without the requirement to have attended previous events in the series (i.e., as if it is a stand-alone event.)

The programme of the event will be posted on L’Internationale Online in mid-July 2025. You can see the previous events in the series here: Climate Forum I and Climate Forum II and III.