The science-art agency
Experience & Learning
Subsection navigation
London Fieldworks: Polaria Fieldwork Noon. Hold With Hope, Northeast Greenland, 2001. Photo: Anthony Oliver.Planetary Breakdown: autonomous infrastructures for a sustainable future
Ashok Sukumaran, HeHe, London Fieldworks
09/03/2010 – 11/03/2010
This is a three day event investigating artistic strategies for sustainablity and survivability following impending climate change. It is a collaboration between The Arts Catalyst, Intersections, AV Festival and Baltic.
"Following Helen and Newton Harrison’s notion of the ‘Force Majeure – that we should be preparing for different forms of governance following radical blows to the existing infrastructures by inevitable climate change – Autonomous Infrastructures looks at the many models created by artists and by communities of people operating semi-autonomously in society in intentional and utopian communities. The event examines the symbolic nature of many of these initiatives and proposse the future realisation of unrealised artists infrastructures." - Rob La Frenais
Produced by Intersections (Newcastle University), The Arts Catalyst and AV Festival 10.
Day 1 Tuesday 9 March 2010
Autonomous Infrastructures: sandpit (invited)
Day 2 Wednesday 10 March 2010
Symposium: Planetary Breakdown: autonomous infrastructures for a sustainable future
Day 2 was a public symposium with three panels looking at alternative approaches to: communities, trade and energy. The symposium brought together an exceptional range of artists, academics and other industry experts to look at future approaches to living. It explored the possibility of creating new autonomous infrastructures across energy, trade and transport, offering a space for everyone to contribute to an active dialogue about our futures. Speakers: Alternative Communities: Malcolm Miles, Lise Autogena, Nicola Triscott, chair David Butler. Trade: Kate Rich, Ashok Sukumaran, chair Sally Jane Norman. Energy: HeHe, London Fieldworks, Bryony Worthington, chair Rob La Frenais
Reviews of Planetary Breakdown symposium