All Program Events

Fire Underground: Animated film and discussion

This animated film by artist Nick Crockett, built in a game engine, presents an alternative version of the 300 million year history of coal. Hovering between homage and parody, fantasy and documentary, cinema and simulation, it pitches labor history and natural history against the confused representations of Appalachia in popular culture today.

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Defend The Water: Day of Action

Join Native leaders from across the country, former miners and steelworkers, youth activists and frontline community members for a day of action outside the Shale Insight gas and petrochemical conference.

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Ecology as Intrasectionality: Radicalizing Arts of Climate Justice

A roundtable discussion hosted by Contemporary Art Research Collaborative, Department of Art & Art Professions at NYU Steinhardt, and Experimental Humanities + Social Engagement at NYU GSAS.

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Museums & Activism: Slaying the Zombie Myth of Museum Neutrality

The Natural History Museum’s co-founders will deliver the keynote address for the 2019 Climarte conference and festival Climate+Art=Change, in Melbourne, Australia. 

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Speculative Machine–A Workshop for the Museum of the Future

The Natural History Museum’s co-founders will lead a workshop at the Miami Museum of Art and Design that will generate methodologies for how the cultural sector and citizens of Miami can contribute to the climate justice movement. The event coincides with the exhibition SUPERFLEX: We Are All in the Same Boat. 

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