04 May 2015

Open call: Brett Bloom leads free workshops to explore a post-oil future at 2 Degrees Festival, London

How can we build up a culture of survival in the face of climate breakdown?

In what ways can we begin to de–industrialise our individual and collective sense of self?

Join US artist Brett Bloom and facilitator Ximena Alarcón (certified Deep Listening instructor) for this five-day workshop enquiring into a post-oil world as part of Artsadmin's 2 Degrees Festival 2015.

The mornings will be spent in the studio and the afternoon will be spent in a different London location to explore this envisaged future: a high-rise rooftop, an underground tunnel, a city farm, and wastelands along the river (by kayak).

Participants will be involved in reading, listening and discussion, and will also experience embodied learning. To apply and for more information visit the website or email toni@artsadmin.co.uk

Accompanying Brett's Breakdown Break Down workshop are a series of public talks each evening giving an insight into the themes being explored:

• Petro-Subjectivity: As part of the opening evening of 2 Degrees Festival, Brett Bloom talks about a new way of thinking about the future, outside the terms that oil has forced upon us.
• Deep Time - Deep Futures: Eric Berger presents his research and work on these concepts
• The Dark Mountain Project: Charlotte Du Cann and Steve Wheeler introduce the Dark Mountain project and its culture of uncivilisation.
• New Narratives of Survival and Collapse: John Jordan and Isa Fremeaux focus on building up a new culture of survival in the face of breakdown.
• Law of the Rights of Mother Earth: Roberto Calzadilla, Bolivian Ambassador to the UK, talks about the country's efforts to extend rights to landscape.

Find out more at 2degreesfestival.tumblr.com and follow #2DegreesFestival @artsadm.