Art as Resistance: Towards a Practice of Degrowth
– A workshop with Alexandra Papademetriou
Date: Friday October 4th, 17.30–19.00
Location: Munnen, Byälvsvägen 18
How can a degrowth approach to the arts be imagined and implemented? Art is often mobilised within activist movements in the service of social change, but how can activist values enter artistic practices to create a more equitable and humane field?
Emerging from the field of political ecology, degrowth is a movement which critiques narratives of perpetual economic growth, de-centering growth as a social objective and the measure of human development. Degrowth intersects with multiple streams of ecological and social thought (such as decolonial theory, institutional critique, politics of care, and mutual aid practices), and calls for a new imaginary – a change of culture and a rediscovery of human identity disentangled from economic representations.
This workshop invites artists, curators, cultural workers, community organisers and anyone with an active interest in these fields to explore degrowth in the context of artistic practices. Through discussion and creative play, the aim of this workshop is to create a space for us to come together and imagine artistic practices that are centred on the values of well-being of human and more-than-human life, equitability, autonomy, simplicity, conviviality, and care.
The workshop is for free and will be held in English.
ABOUT ALEXANDRA:
Alexandra Papademetriou is a Greek/English artist, researcher and editor. Born in Athens, Greece, 1994, she is currently based in Gothenburg, where she earned her MFA in Fine Art from HDK-Valand. Her current research focus is on the subject of degrowth, and specifically how degrowth thinking and strategies can be mobilised within artistic practices to create a more equitable and humane field.
Website: https://alexandrapapademetriou.com