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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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
In this activity, we are going to look at changes of colour and shape that are created by the weather, nature and you.
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.
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.
...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...
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...
Join us in reading We Are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones by Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan.