Explore Ice Lands and the experiences they hold within each crystal, how snow can blanket the world anew and create a warm cocoon as it freezes. It has been evidenced that emotions can be frozen in water ~ what does this hold with so much ice now melting? What long sleeping worlds are being awoken as others are laid to rest? Part of the unravelling of the tapestry or perhaps new worlds to guide our futures?
We will be exploring these lands in sight of Geopolitical considerations and Indigenous rights and experiences; exploring Ice Lands as living, shifting geographies where climate crisis, memory, and political power converge ~ landscapes that challenge us to reckon with the unravelling of old tapestries and the potential birth of new ones.
We are joined by three practitioners immersing themselves in these landscapes:
Lara Orawski, environmental scholar and advocate for multispecies justice, explores the entanglements of water, soil, waste, and extractivism ~ asking how systems of care and accountability might emerge from the very elements in flux.
Apostolos Tsiouvalas, legal researcher specialising in Arctic and Indigenous rights, reveals how melting ice is reshaping not only landscapes but international law, sovereignty, and Indigenous lifeways ~ demanding new models of justice and governance.
Planetary Intimacies is an artistic exploration of landscape as a fragile and ever-changing system – through painting, research, and poetic gestures.
Together, they will guide us through the emotional and geopolitical terrain of ice ~ asking how the cryosphere can speak, what it remembers, and how it might guide us toward more intimate, reciprocal futures.
