Ways of Repair: Loss and Damage seeks three artists and/or curators (applying as individuals or as collectives) working within any medium to undertake new or existing artistic research projects engaging with loss and damage.
Throughout a year-long programme, the selected artists and/or curators will be supported in their engagement with the issue of loss and damage and encouraged to spend time exploring and developing their artistic and/or curatorial practice in dialogue with other likeminded cultural practitioners as well as a global community of climate change researchers, policymakers, advocates, activists and negotiators, working on Loss and Damage — the policies and plans developed to address loss and damage.
Taking place between January 2024 and January 2025, the Ways of Repair: Loss and Damage public online programme will feature four key moments (three workshops and a symposium) aimed at fostering dialogue between the selected artists and/or curators and Loss and Damage researchers from around the world.
Ways of Repair: Loss and Damage is especially interested in artistic research proposals exploring the intangible loss and damage that the climate crisis is causing to culture and heritage, identity and health (physical, mental, and spiritual), as well as reparative acts, modes of healing, community building and kinship-making, that emerge in response to the need to address loss and damage.
Some ways in which artists might engage with Ways of Repair: Loss and Damage include: documenting lived experiences of loss and damage in tangible, experiential and empathetic ways; responding to specific instances of loss and damage, through practices of healing, restoration, reconstruction; participatory approaches to Loss and Damage advocacy and/or activism; exploring the ethical and/or philosophical questions at the heart of the Loss and Damage discourse, or by challenging the Loss and Damage framing itself, and exploring its relationship to the injustice and inequalities at the heart of the climate crisis.
Applications from practitioners representing the Most Affected People and Areas (MAPA) — those at the forefront of intersectional experiences of the climate crisis in the global South and North— are particularly welcome.
Each selected participant or collective will receive a stipend of £10,000.
