This Study Room Guide draws on the festival EcoFutures, curated by Giulia Casalini and Diana Georgiou, as part of the activities of Arts Feminism Queer / CUNTemporary, a London-based non-profit and volunteer-led organisation founded in 2012.
The Guide is accompanied by a dossier, which builds on curatorial and artistic research produced for Ecofutures by CUNTemporary in 2019, hopes to contribute with both its format and its experimental queer-feminist contents to a different vision of ecology while becoming an archive of the Ecofutures project as well as an invocation for a much more sustainable future. The dossier is available through Unbound.
With EcoFutures we explored urgent topics ranging from ecological disasters and their impact on climate refugees to plastic/toxic waste and the contamination of aquatic and human bodies; the relationship between increasing air pollution and human/animal diseases; high-speed capitalist consumption and the ungovernable production of trash and techno-waste; neo-colonialist soil exploitations and indigenous land reclamations; the rise of temperature and sea levels and the effects of environmental exploitations on the Global South/Majority World.
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Ecofutures poster, 2019. Designed by Graphicalism.
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