In Ex(ile) Lab: professional meet-up # 3

Next April 16, the third online meet-up of In Ex(ile) Lab will explore in what ways the topic of climate justice, the environment and migration are intertwined, and how art can be a platform to discuss pressing environmental issues. During the two-hour session, we will try to address the following topics:

- Climate change as one of the factors of displacement and exile;
- The notion of climate refugee in debate;
- Where are the refugee camps in Europe, what do they look like and what purpose do they serve? Reflecting on the notion of environment in the context of refugee camps;
- Climate justice, artivism and artists in exile.

Registration by e-mail: cooperation@aa-e.org

In Ex(ile) Lab is a two-year laboratory that aims to support artists in exile who have recently relocated and are looking to build a career in their host country, by providing opportunities to create a performance, build a professional network, be artistically advised by established artists based in Europe and reach new audiences within the European space. By doing so, the project will provide a framework for cultural organisations to rethink their practices and adapt their tools to the needs of artists in exile. The project is led by atelier des artistes en exile, developed and implemented with Alkantara, Visual Voices and Santarcangelo Festival.

Speakers

Marine Denis is a doctor in public law and a legal consultant specialized in environmental law based in France. She is co-founder of a web series on climate displacement. She is also a volunteer for Notre AYaire à Tous, a French NGO stemming from the End Ecocide on Earth movement which seeks international criminal recognition for the most serious environmental abuses. Notre AYaire à Tous works towards establishing climate justice.

Louis Fernier is a PhD student in Geography at the University of Poitiers, a member of the Migrinter laboratory. He is seeking to understand whether camp environments are used to spatially and socially relegate "undesirable" migrants; and whether these people manage to keep their autonomy. After introducing the context of his research, he will explain his methodology, his Lrst maps and current examples of refugee camps that are particularly isolated and/or exposed to extreme weather events.

Buliash Todaeva is an artist, designer and sustainability researcher of Kalmyk descent, hailing from the self-named Oirad community - a group of Western Mongolians located in the southern region of Russia. Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, she left Moscow and has since relocated to France. Buliash focuses her projects on sustainability, decolonial studies, sociocultural injustice, and environmental issues. She is working with multidisciplinary mediums, including recycled/ organic material research, digital production, tech and artistic reflection.

Tatiana Calderón Ellis is a playwright, actress, writer and musician. A graduate of Bogotá's Teatro Libre, she founded her theater company Puerto Teatro in 2008. She integrates an environmental dimension into her theatre work. She performed in the ohces of multinational companies such as Coca Cola or Ecopetrol to raise workers' awareness of environmental issues. She wrote 19 plays denouncing ecocides and genocides perpetrated by agribusiness in Colombia. In 2021, she began writing her novel The Happiest Village in the World in which she denounced the diversion and draining of rivers by large companies. Following threats she received, this work could not be published.