Environmentalism

My archive project explores artworks from 2020 that grapple with the impacts and processes of climate change. The featured artworks engage the relationship between climate change and time in different ways to communicate the importance of immediate climate action.

Art is central to the Indigenous-lead actions against the construction of the tar sands pipeline Line 3 in Minnesota and Ojibwe territory. Using large-scale puppets, costumes, traditional clothing and performance, Water Protectors fight to represent the human and non-human lives threatened by the pipeline. Their consistent documentation, live-streaming, press-releases, and social media campaigning around these art dominant actions spread awareness of the violence imposed by Line3 while celebrating the sacredness of the Minnesota, Ojibwe, and Aanishinabe lands.