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University and City Library of Cologne

Climate protest: between art & activism

Discuss with us

At the panel discussion "Climate Protest: Between Art and Activism", the University and City Library of Cologne brings representatives of the art scene and the climate protection movement together on the podium. There will be discussions about protest actions and common goals, but also about barriers and conflicts. The actions of the "last generation" have highlighted the polarization in the social discussion on climate protection. And cultural workers all over the world have long been campaigning for more climate protection with artistic actions. Therefore we discuss: Where do political and artistic forms of protest touch, how can the population be moved to rethink, and what role does climate change play in the art world?

Time and location

18. April 2023

Entry: 17:30 Uhr, Start 18:00 Uhr

WDR Funkhaus Köln (kleiner Sendesaal)
Wallrafplatz 5, 50667 Köln
 

Admission is free and registration is not required.

Your Experts

  • Irma Trommer (Aktivistin "letzte Generation“ & Schauspielerin)
  • Dr. Ann-Katrin Günzel (Art critic and author, "Kunstforum International")
  • Dr. Miriam Szwast (Curator, Ökologie im Museum Ludwig)
  • Dr. Simon Teune (FU Berlin, Soziologie)
     
  • Moderation: Dr. Michael Köhler
MIRIAM SZWAST is curator for ecology and photography at the Museum Ludwig. She is the initiator of the museum's internal sustainability team and the Green Culture Collective, a network of climate-active cultural practitioners in Cologne. In addition to business ecology, she is concerned with the question of what role culture can play in a successful socio-ecological transformation. Her most recent exhibition "Green Modernity. The New View of Plants" (www.gruene-moderne.de) saw itself as an experimental field for this.
IRMA TROMMER is engaged with the Last Generation Before the Tipping Points for a rapid and democratic change of society towards climate justice, so that we and all future generations have the chance for a future worth living. She is an actress and lives in Berlin.
ANN-KATRIN GÜNZEL is an art historian and is currently researching utopian world and alternative narratives of coexistence in contemporary art, as well as on nature contemporary art and on aspects of nature and landscape in the Anthropocene. Since 2008 she has been writing as an author for KUNSTFORUM International. In January 2023, she took over the editorship of the of KUNSTFORUM International.
SIMON TEUNE is a sociologist with a focus on protest and movement research. He is interested in the cultural embedding of of protest movements, especially the visual representation and mediatic and the medial mediation of protest concerns. Simon Teune is currently working in the Intervening Arts at the Free University of Berlin. University of Berlin. He is also on the board of the Institute for Protest and Movement Research.

Travel to the WDR Funkhaus

Detail here:  WDR Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz.

Contakt

Dr. Philipp Budde - USB, Stabsstelle Marketing & Press
E-Mail: budde@ub.uni-koeln.de