Arts and culture, including screen arts, are modes of social expression, representation and communication. They engage emotion in ways that help enable citizens to understand, negotiate, resist, disrupt, celebrate and mourn change. Increasingly the affective power of arts and culture is being recognised for its role in producing agency and knowledge, and with this, new possibilities for directly galvanising and accelerating action on the climate and environment.

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Panellists:

Rachel Drury, Co-Founder Collusion

Ken Paranada, Curator of Art & Climate Change, Sainsbury Centre

Norma Cuadros González, PhD Candidate Warwick University & Planet On Environmental Film Festival

Joe Harrington, filmmaker, JH Film Production

 

Rachel Drury is a creative producer, fundraiser and strategist. She is the co-founder of Collusion, an enterprise that creates, produces and facilitates new public artworks that make creative use of digital technologies to explore contemporary social issues including the environment. Recent climate projects include The Intergalactic Hanseatic League (2021, https://www.collusion.org.uk/projects/the-ihl/) 

 

Ken Paranada is the Curator of Art and Climate Change at the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, the first such role for a museum institution of any kind in the UK. Ken’s interdisciplinary practice focuses hybrid forms and practices engaging with climate change, sustainability, historical entanglements, the Anthropocene, social sculpture, new media technologies and platforming climate narratives.

 

Norma Cuadros González is a PhD student at Warwick University researching the role of women in sustainability in the Colombian film industry. Norma has been the Director of the Planet On Environmental Film Festival in Colombia since 2013 (https://planeton.co) and was recently engaged by Amazon Prime to deliver sustainability training to its filmmaking partners in Latin America. 

 

Joseph Harrington, is an independent documentary and commercial filmmaker based in Norwich. His recent projects include After the Tide, a feature documentary that deals with the social and political complexities of coastal erosion in Happisburgh, a village on the Norfolk coast. His commercial practice has included environmental-related work for clients such as The Broads National Park and Norfolk Wildlife Trust as well as national TV commercials. To read more about and watch Joe’s work: https://www.jhfilmproduction.co.uk