How can eco-literacy and ecological grief be used to resist patterns of planetary extraction through our artwork? What is the role of meaningful ecological artistic practice in challenging how we consume, experience, and engage with art? Join artist and researcher Youngsook Choi in a reflective session diving into these questions and their implications for our practices and the wider arts ecosystem.

Building on her existing research and experimental practice into ecological grief, we will map out how we can develop ideas of eco-literacy within our own artistic practices and the impact this has on the artwork we are creating. We will take this collective map further into reimagining art spaces and institutions, from the circulating domain of money-worth collections to the shapeshifting ground of life-affirming relations.

Prolific ecological artistic practices today mainly focus on material experimentation, but where do we go from here? How can we push this further to develop real meaningful ecological artistic practices that create genuine systems change? These are the questions rooting for the second part of the workshop as we challenge the way we stage, consume, and experience art and dream up what living art spaces that we build together could look like.

This is an interactive and collaborative workshop with plenty of time for conversation and discussion, as well as more hands-on mapping and group exercises.

The workshop is open to anyone to attend but will particularly resonate with those who have an existing eco-bound practice or an interest in exploring ecologies, climate, and worldbuilding through their artwork or practice.