I wish everyone a wonderful new year—hopefully one that brings the world to a better place than it is now, or at least sows more seeds of hope than it holds at the moment.
At Fontys Academy of the Arts and the Professorship Artistic Connective Practices, we start the new year with the 14th Connective Conversation, tonight at 19:30 at the Kolommenzaal. Hosted by Heleen de Hoon, our guest will be Frida from Fossil Free Culture NL (FFCNL), a collective of artists, activists, and researchers working at the intersection of art and climate activism. The collective engages in Strategic Artistic Disobedience “to build a Fossil Free Future that is feminist, anti-racist, intergenerational, diverse, queer, and decolonial.”
The inspiring founding goal of FFCNL has been to end oil and gas sponsorship of public cultural institutions in the Netherlands, and more broadly, to critically erode social licence for the fossil fuel industry. This goal, and with it the work of FFCNL, resonates intensely with the ambition of the professorship to direct our work and attention towards climate change and climate justice — through the lens of artistic connectivity and with artistic research. I am immensely looking forward to learn more about Fossil Free’s work – feel welcome to join us!
Falk Hübner 