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Please check back often to stay up-to-date on upcoming events, exhibitions, publications and other news from the Institute for Art & Environment. New climate fiction book club LAX LAB 2.0 will be announced soon.
Art of climate activism — Talk by Emma Arnold at international conference V COMbART
V COMbART: Art, Activism and Citizenship
3 to 5 July 2024
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto
Porto, Portugal
Artistic approaches to critical urban photography
Creative Practice Research Group (closed event but invitation can be requested)
6 June 2024
Oslo Metropolitan University
Oslo, Norway
Let LAX LAB 2.0 know what you're reading
Are you new to LAX LAB 2.0? Let the community know your favourite book, what you're currently reading, or what you'd like to read next.
Mission Statement for LAX LAB 2.0 now online
Read the Mission Statement for the new LAX LAB 2.0 | school of climate fiction, the first project by the Institute for Art & Environment.
Help build the LAX LAB 2.0 | school of climate fiction library
What is a school without a library?
One of the goals of LAX LAB 2.0 | school of climate fiction is to become an educational resource for all things climate fiction. To achieve that goal, I would like to build an online library together with you.
Art + Activism = ARTIVISM — Talk and panel discussion led by Emma Arnold
KunstFest vol. 5: Artivism
20 April 2024, 18:00—23:59
Østfold Internasjonale Teater — Østfold International Theatre
Dokka 3A, 1671 Kråkerøy (Fredrikstad), Norway
Pussy Riot-Diana comes to Fredrikstad
16 April 2024
The Institute for Art & Environment gets a mention in Norwegian newspaper Fredrikstad Blad in an article on Diana Burkot from Pussy Riot and the programming for the upcoming event on artivism at Østfold International Theatre.
First LAX LAB 2.0 community discussion is open
The first LAX LAB 2.0 climate fiction community discussion is now live on Substack.
Sign up and join the conversation. Tell us about your favourite books, what climate fiction you recommend, and what you would like to read together.
Sign-up to LAX LAB 2.0 | school of climate fiction is now open
LAX LAB 2.0 | school of climate fiction has been soft launched.
The community and book club will be hosted at Substack, where you can now sign up to join.
LAX LAB 2.0 is launching soon
The first major project of the Institute for Art & Environment will be launching soon.
LAX LAB 2.0 is a collaborative community, book club, and educational resource dedicated to the stories and worlds of climate fiction and it is on its way!
Climate Fiction and Narrative Imaginations — Conversation between Emma Arnold and Liisa-Rávná Finbog
The Major Arcana: Justice – Climate Fiction and Narrative Imaginations
14 March 2024, 18:00—19:00
MUNCH Museet / MUNCH Museum
Edvard Munchs Plass 1, 0194 Oslo, Norway
Urban Surfaces Research Network — Inaugural international workshop
Urban Surfaces Research Network (USRN) inaugural international workshop (closed online event)
6 March 2024, 09:00—12:00
Zoom
Finissage — Conversation between Emma Arnold and Karen O’Brien
Finissage of exhibition Art of Climate/Change and conversation between Emma Arnold and Professor Karen O’Brien
15 November 2023, 14:00—15:00
Hum-Sam Bibliotek / Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Georg Sverdrups hus, University of Oslo, Moltke Moes vei 39, 0851 Oslo, Norway
Climate Fiction Book Club: Discussing Waubgeshig Rice’s Moon of the Crusted Snow
Public book club discussion on Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, in conversation with Sámi scholar and curator Liisa-Rávná Finbog and student Søren Mortensen
19 October 2023, 16:15—17:15
Hum-Sam Bibliotek / Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Georg Sverdrups hus, University of Oslo, Moltke Moes vei 39, 0851 Oslo, Norway
Art of Climate/Change — Exhibition of artefacts and photographs from artistic study of climate activism
Art of Climate/Change exhibition of artefacts collected and photographs taken by Emma Arnold
Oct. 19, 2023 – Nov. 24, 2023
Hum-Sam Bibliotek / Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Georg Sverdrups hus, University of Oslo, Moltke Moes vei 39, 0851 Oslo, Norway