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Rights of Nature Conference Past, Event
Sat 24 Jan, 9.30am–6pm

Free, The Space

This one day event explores the Rights of Nature from the perspectives of artistic practices, indigenous knowledge and activist engagements in the Americas and elsewhere. Drawing from lived and theoretical frameworks that de-privilege the huma...

Rights of Nature Past Exhibition
Sat 24 Jan – Sun 15 Mar
Darren Almond, Fullmoon@Torre Egger, 2013. © Darren Almond. Courtesy White Cube
Nottingham Contemporary, 2015. Photography by Andy Keate.

Runaway global warming, environmental destruction and mass species extinction are all consequences of our fraught relationship with nature. Earth has been seen as an infinite supply of natural resources to be freely exploited for profit. Climate change caused by human behaviou...

States of America: Photography from the Civil Rights Movement to the Reagan Era Past Exhibition
Sat 16 Sep – Sun 26 Nov
Dawoud Bey, A Boy in Front of the Loew's 125th Street Movie Theater, 1976, gelatin-silver print. © Dawoud Bey, courtesy of Stephen Daiter Gallery.
Stephen Shore, Ginger Shore, Causeway Inn, Tampa, Florida, November 17, 1977, 1977/2011, C-print. © Stephen Shore. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York, Sprüth Magers and Wilson Centre for Photography

States of America focuses on a generation of photographers that experimented with innovative approaches to documentary photography. Drawing from the collection of the Wilson Centre for Photography, the exhibition includes key works by Diane Arbus, Louis Draper, William Egglest...

Rights of Nature Conference: Morning

This one-day conference explores Nottingham Contemporary’s exhibition, Rights of Nature, 2015, from the perspectives of artistic practices, indigenous knowledge and activist engagements in the Americas and elsewhere. Drawing from lived and theoretical frameworks that de-priv...

Rights of Nature Conference: Afternoon

This one-day conference explores Nottingham Contemporary’s exhibition, Rights of Nature, 2015, from the perspectives of artistic practices, indigenous knowledge and activist engagements in the Americas and elsewhere. Drawing from lived and theoretical frameworks that de-priv...

Dear Nature by John Newling Past, Book Launch
Tue 5 Mar, 6pm–9pm

After the exhibition Ecologies of Value, in 2013, artist John Newling returns to Nottingham Contemporary to launch his new book Dear Nature. In 2018, the artist spent 81 consecutive days writing letters to natur...

Rights & Justice in Nottingham: Black Lives Matter Nottingham Past, Talk
Sat 19 Nov, 3pm–5pm
Black Lives Matter, October, US

Part II in a three-part series called The Rights and Justice City: Hope, History and Being Humane, this public dialogue tackles an important issue in an open forum. Nottingham is home to Europe’s first Black Lives Matter chapter, which in 2015 joined the 30 local ch...

Rights of Nature: Wednesday Walkthroughs Past, Talk
Wed 28 Jan – Wed 11 Mar
Darren Almond, Fullmoon @ Torre Egger 2013

Join us for a Wednesday Walkthrough – a gallery talk where artists, experts, researchers and academics share their unique perspectives on our exhibition Rights of Nature.

Free. Drop in.

Rights of Nature: Decolonising Indigenous Epistemologies
Two screens adjacent to one another. One is showing greenery with text that says "It's a space for transmitting our knowledge" and the other shows a man in front of a body of water with subtitles of the same text.

Recent decades have seen the emergence of movements amongst indigenous scholars to decolonize their knowledge systems. To what extent has environmental activism acknowledged this scholarship? Do Eurocentric concerns draw on this knowledge whilst continuing to marginalise indig...

Nature of Rights: Earth Law, Forensics, Geo-Symptoms
Installation view of Nottingham Contemporary.

How does rights-of-nature discourse relate to specific artistic practices? How do rights—in particular those of Earth Law—emerge within visual explorations, discursive formulations, and political activities? If nature is accorded legal subjectivity, then how does it testif...

Activity: Nature Tangles
Autumn leaves placed together to create a cross-stitch

In this activity, we are going to look at changes of colour and shape that are created by the weather, nature and you.

Activity: Temple of Nature
a structure made of twigs and pine cones

This activity is inspired by artist Grace Ndiritu’s work ‘The Temple’ and involves a family walk in nature. You’re going to collect natural materials to build a temple to nature.

Sustaining Resilience: Land Rights and the Politics of Conservation Past, Event
Sat 25 Mar, 2pm–5pm
Three people sat in a landscape with rocks and grass

Join us for a live conversation delving into the relationship between conservation and land rights, highlighting different modes of relating to land and the urgency of centring reparative approaches.

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Sustaining Resilience: Land Rights and the Politics of Conservation
a film still showing people sitting on rocks

This is an edited recording of Sustaining Resilience: Land Rights and the Politics of Conservation, a conversation delving into the relationship between conservation and land rights, highlighting different modes of relating to land and the urgency of centring reparative approa...

1525: Rights to Our City Past, Young People, Workshop
Sun 3 Mar – Sun 5 May, 1pm–3.30pm
A group of young adults crossing the road in Nottingham City

This series of workshops for 15-25 year olds aims to explore the current exhibitions and ideas around the future of our city, through walking and art making. Over the series we will reimagine our city as a place for play and a stage for hidden mythologies to emerge into, givin...

Online Slow Reading Group: We Are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself Event
Mon 19 May – Mon 15 Sep, 6.30pm-8pm, Online, Monthly
Tarot card-style illustration with environmental protestors, a person with a frog mask holding a stick with an owl, and text "We are 'nature' defending itself."

Join us in reading We Are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones by Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan.

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