Category: Climate Odyssey

It took a while but here it is: a short video of the Climate Odyssey public performance.

Over a 3,5-months period we engaged 15 project participants in weekly interactive art-&-science workshops. Inspirations were endangered species, climate fiction, historic events, utopian visions and many others. From these inspirations small performances started to crystallize and the play was created. The public performance took place at Festival de Telheiras, Lisbon, 26 May 2019. We had three sold out shows! To us it was moving, special and inspirational. It showed the power of community and the importance of meaning-making to create climate action. Luckily Guilherme Ornelas was there to film it to capture the moment and later Elisa Purfürst could edit it.

The Climate Odyssey (Odisseia pelo Clima) aims to engage communities in an art-science-practice project on climate action. It seeks to contribute to new approaches to climate change using the potential of artful and participatory elements to increase awareness and agency for the topic of climate change. The project aims to co-create with the local communities a thematic trajectory (‘odyssey’), which elicits local stories of change and transformation and make visible the various aspects (social, cultural, environmental) of climate change.

Between February and June 2019 the project promotes weekly interactive art-and science workshops engaging local participants in the co-creation of the community theatre Climate Odyssey to be presented to the public in a neighbourhood festival in the end of May 2019 (Festival de Telheiras).

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Created together with the inhabitants of the Telheiras neighborhood over the course of 3 months, Climate Odyssey is a performative journey on climate change. It was supported by an interactive process of art-&-science sessions, presenting new action research approaches to climate change. There were 3 presentations on the 26th of May, at 4 pm, 5 pm and 6 pm (duration 70-85 min).

Climate Odyssey was conceived by Julia Bentz  and Sara Dal Corso with the support of Letícia do Carmo and Jörn Schirok.

In weekly interactive workshops during four months we reflected and shared knowledge and perspectives on climate change. In a co-creational approach that both involves artistic and scientific methods we collected many ideas that contributed to the generation of our community theatre play “Odisseia Pelo Clima” (Climate Odyssey). Inspirations were endangered species, climate fiction, historic events, utopian visions and many others. From these inspirations small performances started to crystallize and we created the play. See below some pictures from our three (sold out!) performances on the 26th of May 2019.

Photos by Ana Isa Mourinho

Cast:

Ana Filipa Fernandes
Bárbara Pinheiro
Daniela Rato
Guilherme Weishar
Inês dos Santos Silva Machado
Joaquim Conceição
Joern Schirok
Julia Bentz
Leticia do Carmo
Madalena Horta
Manuel Antonio da Silva
Maria Inês Costa
Maria Margarida Costa
Mariana Melo Sales
Mariana Pereira
Melissa Catherine Loja
Noemi Luna Carmeno
Sara Dal Corso
Valeriy Zota
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The Climate Odyssey (Odisseia pelo Clima) explores embodied and performative practices and their potential for climate change transformations. It puts forward and enlivens an example, where such forms of engaging communities can provide new insight into how equitable, just and sustainable transformations can come about. The process involved a series of interactive workshops with diverse arts-based methods and embodied practices to create performative material. From this process a space emerged for the creation of meaning about climate change. It seeks to contribute to new approaches to climate change using the potential of artful and participatory elements to increase awareness and agency for the topic of climate change.

Between February and June 2019 the we promoted weekly interactive art-and science workshops engaging local participants in the co-creation of the community theater Climate Odyssey to be presented to the public in a neighborhood festival in the end of May 2019 (Festival de Telheiras). In weekly interactive workshops we have been reflecting and sharing knowledge and perspectives on climate change. We have also been creatively playing with and dancing (!) about many different ideas related to it. Inspirations have been endangered species, climate fiction, historic events, utopian visions and many others. Some small performances are already crystallising.

Climate Odyssey is a transdisciplinary approach involving artistic practices, social and natural sciences as well as local knowledges and collaborations. The project aims to co-create with the local communities a thematic trajectory (‘odyssey’), which elicits local stories of change and transformation and make visible the various aspects (social, cultural, environmental) of climate change.

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