"Art of Climate/Change" showcases collected artefacts and photographs taken by Dr. Emma Arnold during a visual urban ethnography of climate activism.
In early 2019, she started work on a research project on the arts of climate change. The beginning of the project coincided with an unprecedented wave of climate activism that she quickly became swept up in. She started taking photographs for Extinction Rebellion after documenting their first major action in Norway in April 2019. She folded her artistic practice into her academic research and in doing so also became an activist.
During the finissage, Emma Arnold will give a short presentation of her research project and the exhibition. Then professor Karen O'Brien will talk about her book "You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World". Arnold and O'Brien will have a brief conversation before we open the floor for questions.
Emma Arnold is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and writer interested in how the creative actions of everyday citizens transform the city, from acts of civil disobedience to artful interventions of graffiti and street art.
Karen O'Brien is an internationally recognized expert on climate change and society, focusing on themes such as climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation including how climate change interacts with globalization processes and the implications for human security.