This event has been cancelled.
Come join us for a collective translation and creative writing afternoon, where we discuss how to write the future, how to cultivate hope through storytelling and how to still make place for grief, anxiety, anger…
As we’re approaching the end of 2024, imagining a hopeful climate future seems increasingly difficult. If Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, set in 2024, has so far been categorized as sci-fi, it increasingly resembles a dark premonitory dream. To ring on the calendar end of this literary echo, we will call upon some climate fiction submitted as part of Imagine 2200 (a literary competition hosted by Grist) for an exercise in collective translation and imagination. We will talk about the words that resonate in our mother tongues, and read stories and share anecdotes that bring us closer to a different future. Nothing specific to bring!
When: December 12 at 13.30 – 16.00 Then join the CEMUS Sustainability Winter Festival party!
Where: Östersjön/Baltic library, Geocentrum, Villavägen 16, see map here: https://link.mazemap.com/ILit5KK6
Registration form link: https://forms.gle/6kvCgWtyQx2peR1UA
Feel free to contact me at julie.robiolle@gmail.com
Julie Robiolle (*1996, France) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied curatorial politics and political studies at the CCC master program (Head, Geneva, Switzerland). Her domains of interest include politics of translation, the structure of ecological ‘revolutionary’ writings and the impact of modes of representation on queer and ‘oblique’ bodies. She is the founder and co-editor of Playground Platform, an online magazine fostering non-academic forms of knowledges around the topic of minor resistance, and RING artspace, a curatorial research project presenting practices on the margins.
Among others, she led workshops for Casa delle Agriculture (Puglia) and the Royal Academy of Art (Stockholm) and participated in multiple symposiums and publications. Selection of exhibition: a plotless horror movie (Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Deutschland), “Epilog” (Westfälischer Kunstverein & LWL Museum of Art and Culture, Münster, Deutschland), The Many Voices of les indiennes (LIYH, Geneva, Switzerland), we usedta leave deluxe issues of love potions* (One Gee In Fog, Geneva, Switzerland). In 2019, she received the Hans Wilsdorf scholarship. In 2021, she was the recipient of the NRW+ x ProHelvetia Fellowship for curator.
