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18 november 2021
New ecological thinking:
art initiatives
and eco-activism
New ecological thinking: art initiatives and eco-activism
Discussion with Lucia Pietroiusti and Suzanne Dhaliwal. Moderator – Anna Kirikova


What is the ecological agenda of today and what are the main concepts it entails? We will explore topics from the Anthropocene theory, “dark ecology”, and the “sixth extinction”, to the “climate renaissance”, criticism of “white supremacy”, and the decolonization of eco-activism practices. How deep is the connection between the environment and socio-economic development? What role do cultural institutions and interdisciplinary practices play in the emergence of a new kind of ecological thinking? And what is each individual’s personal responsibility in this changing world?


Lucia Pietroiusti, curator of ecological programs at the Serpentine Gallery (London), will discuss how cultural institutions work with issues connected with the environment and what practical tools they might offer for actions we can take every day.


Researcher and eco-activist Suzanne Dhaliwal will focus on the eco-political aspects of climate change and will also discuss her work with indigenous peoples on the front lines of environmental catastrophes.

18 November 2021, 8 p.m. UTC +3
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The event is part of the international UK–Russia Creative Bridge programme 2021–2022 supported by the Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy in Moscow
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  • Suzanne Dhaliwal
    Suzanne Dhaliwal is a Climate Justice Creative, Campaigner, Researcher, Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Trainer in Creative Strategies for Decolonisation.

    Suzanne was voted one of London's most influential people in the category of The Environment in 2018 by the Evening Standard. In 2009 she co-founded the UK Tar Sands Network, which challenged BP and Shell investments in Canadian tar sands in solidarity with frontline indigenous communities, spurring the internationalisation of the fossil fuel divestment movement. Her corporate and financial campaigning spans more than a decade, including her spearheading of a European coalition to challenge the insurance industry on their underwriting of high-pollution coal and tar sands projects. Suzanne has led artistic interventions to challenge fossil fuel investments globally and currently works as a creative practice tutor and freelance consultant.
  • Lucia Pietroiusti
    Lucia Pietroiusti is a curator working at the intersection of art, ecology, and systems, usually outside of the gallery format. She was the founder of and is currently curator of General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries, London, as well as the curator of Sun & Sea (Marina) by Rugile Barzdziukaite, Vaiva Grainyte, and Lina Lapelyte, and of the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th La Biennale di Venezia International Art Exhibition. 
    At the Serpentine, Pietroiusti founded the long-term project General Ecology, which she currently directs and curates. General Ecology presents live events, radio programmes, and publications, and organises ongoing research projects. Pietroiusti is also a co-curator of Back to Earth, the Serpentine’s 50th anniversary programme dedicated to the environment (ongoing).
  • Anna Kirikova
    Event moderated by Anna Kirikova, Director of International Projects, Manege.
    Creator and programme director of NEW NOW programme.
Suzanne Dhaliwal
Suzanne Dhaliwal is a Climate Justice Creative, Campaigner, Researcher, Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Trainer in Creative Strategies for Decolonisation.

Suzanne was voted one of London's most influential people in the category of The Environment in 2018 by the Evening Standard. In 2009 she co-founded the UK Tar Sands Network, which challenged BP and Shell investments in Canadian tar sands in solidarity with frontline indigenous communities, spurring the internationalisation of the fossil fuel divestment movement. Her corporate and financial campaigning spans more than a decade, including her spearheading of a European coalition to challenge the insurance industry on their underwriting of high-pollution coal and tar sands projects. Suzanne has led artistic interventions to challenge fossil fuel investments globally and currently works as a creative practice tutor and freelance consultant.
Lucia Pietroiusti
Lucia Pietroiusti is a curator working at the intersection of art, ecology, and systems, usually outside of the gallery format. She was the founder of and is currently curator of General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries, London, as well as the curator of Sun & Sea (Marina) by Rugile Barzdziukaite, Vaiva Grainyte, and Lina Lapelyte, and of the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th La Biennale di Venezia International Art Exhibition. 
At the Serpentine, Pietroiusti founded the long-term project General Ecology, which she currently directs and curates. General Ecology presents live events, radio programmes, and publications, and organises ongoing research projects. Pietroiusti is also a co-curator of Back to Earth, the Serpentine’s 50th anniversary programme dedicated to the environment (ongoing).
Anna Kirikova
Event moderated by Anna Kirikova, Director of International Projects, Manege.
Creator and programme director of NEW NOW programme.
materials
Podcast
Back to Earth: How Do We Get There? Victoria Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Suzanne Dhaliwal // Serpentine Podcasts, 2020

Podcast
Suzanne Dhaliwal // AND Podcast, 2021

Publication
Andrés Jaque, Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti.
More-than-Human: a reader. Rotterdam:
Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2021

Institutional initiative and podcast
General Ecology // Serpentine Gallery, 2018–ongoing

Video
Vivienne Westwood. Active Resistance to Propaganda
// Serpentine's Manifesto Marathon, 2008

Publication
Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang. Decolonization is not a metaphor // Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 2012

Video
Timothy Morton. Putting the Ecology back in Economy
// Garage, 2020

Publication
The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions, guest editors Ros Gray and Shela Shaikh, 2018

Podcast
Future ecologies, 2018–2021

Publication
T. J. Demos. Art after Nature: the Post-Natural Condition
// ArtForum, 2012

Publication
Kate Raworth. Doughnut economics: seven ways to think
like a 21st-century economist. Vermont:
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017

Video
Olafur Eliasson and Kumi Naidoo. On Art and Activism // COP26, 2021

Publications
Damian Carrington. Revealed: the places humanity must not destroy to avoid climate chaos // The Guardian, 2021
Publication
Suzanne Dhaliwal. Land, life and justice // red pepper, 2015

Publications
Stories by Suzanne Dhaliwal

Video
Lucia Pietroiusti. Talk: Intelligent Earth
// Speculative Futures London, 2017

Institutional initiative and podcasts
Back to Earth // Serpentine Gallery, 2020–2022

Publication
Vivienne Westwood. First step to save the environment: SWITCH to Green Energy // WePresent x Serpentine: Groundwork, 2021

Publication
Timothy Morton. Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016

Publication
Björk’s letters with Timothy Morton // Dazed, 2015

Publication
Property will Cost us the Earth: On Ecological Rage
and Class Hatred. Interview with Marxist climate-scholar Andres Malm // ArtReview, 2021

Publication
Dipesh Chakrabarty. The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021

Publication
T. J. Demos. Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture
and Environment Today. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017

Publication
Elizabeth Kolbert. The Sixth Extinction:
An Unnatural History. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2014

Video
Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados
at the Opening of the COP26, 2021


Publication
Suzanne Dhaliwal. Why I'm ‘checking in’ at Standing Rock
on Facebook – and why you should do the same to
// The Independent, 2016

Video
Lucia Pietroiusti. Art, Tech and the Environment:
3-part video series // Art+Technology, 2020

Art initiative
Sun&Sea (Marina), 2019–ongoing

Publication
140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth
// Serpentine Gallery, 2021

Manifesto
Vivienne Westwood. Save the World
// Climate Revolution, 2021

Publication
Timothy Morton. Being Ecological.
London: Pelican Books, 2018

Publication
A reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet
of the Anthropocene // The Guardian, 2017

Publication
Félix Guattari. The Three Ecologies.
London: Bloomsbury, 2014

Publication
Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Undrowned. Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. Chico: AK Press, 2020

Video
T. J. Demos. The Politics and Aesthetics
of Climate Emergency // Garage, 2019

Publication
Andreas Malm. How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning
to Fight in a World on Fire. London: Verso Books, 2021

Institutional initiative

The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish // Serpentine Galleries, ongoing
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