[artinfo] Conference on climate activism

[Oliver Ressler]

On February 28 and 29, 2020,  the conference
"Barricading the Ice Sheets,"
(conceived by Oliver Ressler)
will take place at Camera Austria.

Following the first conference day, the the 
artist's new film, "Everything's Coming Together 
While Everything's Falling Apart: Venice Climate 
Camp" will have its world premiere. On occasion 
of the conference, the reader Barricading the Ice 
Sheets. Artists and Climate Action in the Age of 
Irreversible Decision, edited by Oliver Ressler 
will be published by Edition Camera Austria.

In parallel with the conference, an exhibition 
will be shown at Akademie Graz 
<http://www.akademie-graz.at/cms/cms.php?pageName=2&terminId=548>, 
featuring films selected by the speakers of the 
conference.

Speakers:

Nnimmo Bassey(NG)
John Jordan(GB)
Steve Lyons / The Natural History Museum (US)
Marta Moreno Muñoz(ES)
Aka Niviâna(GL)
Oliver Ressler(AT)

Nnimmo Bassey and John Jordan will also be 
present at this year's edition of Elevate 
Festival <http://elevate.at/en/>.

MORE INFORMATION
www.camera-austria.at 
<http://camera-austria.at/en/veranstaltungen/conferenceoliver-ressler-barricading-the-ice-sheets/>

REGISTRATION
exhibitions at camera-austria.at <mailto:exhibitions at camera-austria.at>

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Film Premiere
Oliver Ressler: Everything's Coming Together 
While Everything's Falling Apart: Venice Climate 
Camp, 2020 (21 min)	28. 2. 2020, 8 pm

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This film celebrates the Venice Climate Camp of 
September 2019, organized by the No Grandi Navi 
("no big ships") committee together with Fridays 
for Future and many more activists from all over 
Europe. Leaving the camp on the Lido at dawn, 200 
activists forced their way into the Venice Film 
Festival enclosure, where they occupied the red 
carpet for nine hours. Making full use of 
	the international media presence, the 
activists laid claim to the world attention 
focused on the day's prize giving ceremony, 
turning it to the agenda of the climate movement. 
The Venice Film Festival as such was not the 
target of the blockade, but the activists took a 
sharply critical position on its neglect of an 
important opportunity to call publicly for 
climate justice.
Still from: Oliver Ressler: Everything's Coming 
Together While Everything's Falling Apart: Venice 
Climate Camp, 2020.

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"Barricading the Ice Sheets" is a research 
endeavor by Oliver Ressler and supported by the 
Austrian Science Fund (FWF: AR 526). In autumn 
2021 it will materialize as an exhibition at 
Camera Austria.

Camera Austria, Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz, Austria, 
+43 316 81 55 50, office at camera-austria.at
www.camera-austria.at