Nottingham Contemporary

Focusing on the Americas, from the Arctic to the Andes, the exhibition explores the greatest challenge of our time – climate change.

This major exhibition includes sculpture, photographs, paintings and installations across all four of Nottingham Contemporary galleries including Subhankar Banerjee’s epic photographs of migratory caribou in northern Alaska, Fernando Palma Rodríguez’s animatronic Monarch butterflies, restoring life to a threatened species, Abel Rodriquez’s exquisite drawings of plants, recording indigenous environmental knowledge passed down through generations, and Paulo Nazareth’s delicate installations of materials collected during his journey, on foot, between Belo Horizonte and New York City.

Artists: Allora & Calzadilla, Eduardo Abaroa, Ala Plástica, Darren Almond, Marcos Avila Forero, Amy Balkin, Subhankar Banerjee, Mabe Bethônico, Ursula Biemann & Paulo Tavares, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Minerva Cuevas, Jimmie Durham, Harun Farocki, GIAP: Grupo de Investigación en Arte y Política (with Beatriz Aurora), Paulo Nazareth, The Otolith Group, Fernando Palma Rodríguez, Claire Pentecost, Abel Rodríguez, Miguel Angel Rojas, Walter Solón Romero.

Suitable for

• Any age

Website

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/rights-nature

11am - 3pm.

Free, no need to book.

Create recycled sculptures, fossilised objects and make your own mini garden to take home and tend.

Talk, create and chill together. Stay as long as you want.

“A great idea – it helped my children to be able to look at the art in more detail.” Family visitor
How to get to us

Discounted travel to families and groups on main bus operators and the tram,see our Visit webpage for more information.

Suitable for

• 0-4
• 7-10
• 5-6
• 11-13

Admission

Free, Drop In

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/family-weekends-january-0

Drop in between 6.30pm - 9.30pm and join a workshop with our young people and special guest artist Sam Metz. Or just relax in our spaces. They'll be free mocktails and snacks.

Free music in Cafe.Bar.Contemporary from 9pm. Bring your friends along too

Suitable for

• 16-17
• 18+

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/collabor-8-3

Can climate change be seen to create opportunities? And if so, for whom? A gathering of those with a stake in the environmental debate provides an informal space for discussion and debate on issues relating to capitalism, climate change and activism. The atmosphere is open and audiences are encouraged to ask questions.

Convened in collaboration with Rebecca Beinart and David Bell, guest speakers include Out of the Woods Collective and Platform, London.

Suitable for

• Any age

Website

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/catastrophe-opportunity-tickets-15005031453

This film examines the potential impacts of fracking and coal bed methane extraction in Somerset and beyond. It includes the social, health and environmental consequences associated with unconventional gas drilling.

Suitable for

• Any age

Website

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-truth-behind-the-dash-for-gas-tickets-15006444680

Thursday 5 February

Led by Andrew Goffey (University of Nottingham)

This session will focus on Felix Guattari’s Three Ecologies and employments thereof to address Animism and the nature / culture divide.



Thursday 19 February

Led by Eva Giraud (Keele University)

This session will explore issues and tensions surrounding representation and conservation and will focus on the issue of how environmental destruction can be challenged, without well-intentioned activists from the Global North trying to speak for indigenous populations.



Thursday 5 March

Led by Nic Beuret

Titled Cultures of Catastrophe, this session will focus on climate change and the language of catastrophe in popular and theoretical culture.

Places for these sessions are limited. If you would like to reserve a place please email emma@nottinghamcontemporary.org. Texts will be circulated in advance.

Suitable for

• Any age

Admission

Places for these sessions are limited. If you would like to reserve a place please email emma@nottinghamcontemporary.org.

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/three-ecologies

Help create a heavenly host of shimmering butterflies. Make a pledge to live a little greener.

Find out more.

Suitable for

• Family friendly
• Especially for children

Admission

Free.

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/light-night-1

A conversation about how artists and cultural institutions engage in issues related to oil. Presented in collaboration with the Politicised Practice Research Group and Anarchist Research Group, Loughborough University.

Suitable for

• Any age

Website

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-oil-tickets-15005065555

Tue 17 Feb – Fri 20 Feb (Closed Mon)

11am – 3pm

Become an investigator in our Eco-Research Station.

Suitable for

• 0-4
• 7-10
• 5-6
• 11-13

Admission

Free, drop in.

Website

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/february-half-term-activities

Human-centred perspectives on the planet have annexed other ways of knowing, knowing that is situated between species, between natural and human entities, between disciplines and between writing and action.

Leading philosopher and eco-feminist Isabelle Stengers reclaims knowledge based in magic, sorcery and animism and proposes a de-colonisation of thought from the rational tradition to engage in ethical, provocative and anti-capitalist environmental actions.

Suitable for

• Any age

Website

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/provocations-of-gaia-tickets-15006542974

Enjoy a screening Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, a film which brings the plight of the environment to life for children through captivating characters.

Sat 21 Feb

3pm - 4.30pm

Suitable for

• 7-10
• 0-4
• 11-13
• 5-6

Admission

£3pp (under 2's free)

Website

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/family-film-lorax-pg