Creativity Meetup - Marina Velez - "Art and the Anthropocene"

Cambridge Creativity Meetup

MARINA VELEZ - "Art and the Anthropocene"

We are very excited to welcome Marina Velez for a very timely Cambridge Creativity talk, as it will explore our impact on the planet through the lens of art:

Please join us on Zoom on Tuesday March 16th at 6pm.
Format: 45' talk - 15' Q&A - 30' Open chat between participants.
PLEASE RSVP - the zoom link will be visible to RSVP attendees.
Meeting passcode: 0000

“Anthropocene” refers to a geological epoch starting around the 18th century, where the effect that people have on the Earth’s environment and climate started becoming more significant than natural effects. As an art researcher, Marina is exploring more caring ways of relating to the environment through artistic practice research.

In Marina’s words: “Art practices can, in their capacities to explore complex and ambiguous meaning, help making the relationship between human and non-human entities visible. Art’s ability to create spaces in which people are invited to stay in non clear-cut states and where further questions are provided rather than answers, motivates inquisitive attitudes which can set in motion deeper digging for meaning.”

In this talk, Marina will explore how art practices can bring about a form of cognising which can help us to look with discerning eyes into nature and to protect pluralistic considerations of knowledge, which render life in all its diversity possible. She will focus on her own practice and fieldwork in rural Spain as a lens through which to explore climate change and ecological crisis. She investigates this through methodological approaches such as democracy of experiences, non-extractive research, critical self-reflection and moment-to-moment enquiries and she looks into photography, video and interventions as a way of mapping out cartographies of experiences.

Marina Velez is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Cambridge, UK. She is an associate artist and curator at Anglia Ruskin University, Faculty of Arts, Laws and Social Sciences and a lecturer at Norwich University of the Arts. She is the founder and organiser of Cambridge Sustainability Residency and the founder and curator of Sustainability Art Prize at Cambridge School of Art. Marina has co-edited two books about art and sustainability, MILK. and ROAR. She is a member of the Dalvazza Group at the Swiss Artistic Research Network. Her doctoral research title is 'Exploring value, meaning and worth through five art projects in rural Spain'

More information is available on Marina’s website: https://www.marinavelez.com/

Marina was one of the teachers at the course which decided us to start this Creativity Meetup: her classes were opening amazing new perspectives, while being delivered with kindness and grace, so that promises to be a heartwarming evening - we are very much looking forward to it, and we hope that many of you will take this opportunity to meet the amazing person that she is!

PLEASE RSVP - the zoom link will be visible to RSVP attendees.
Meeting passcode: 0000

For any question, please contact Sacha K. via Meetup or email:
CambridgeCreativity@gmail.com