Bengaluru, Nov 17, 2024 – A novel exhibition in Bengaluru is exploring the intersectionalities between local weather, gender, class and caste by means of an immersive museum. Because the world witnesses international leaders discussing local weather considerations and targets at COP29, Greenpeace India and the Museum of Artwork and Pictures (MAP) are internet hosting, Local weather on the margins: Gender, class and caste vulnerabilities which is bringing forth actual individuals and their tales of loss, survival and resilience within the face of the local weather disaster.
The spotlight of the exhibition is a digital museum of on a regular basis objects that tells actual tales of people that endured excessive climate occasions in several elements of India. Sabari, popularly referred to as Meancurry on Instagram for his quirky humour and artwork, has designed the exhibition. ‘We mixed numerous visible and storytelling strategies with the museum’s know-how to sensitively carry these tales to life. Information about local weather disasters usually reduces the injury to numbers and statistics. By this exhibition, we had the chance to share the uncooked, human tales behind these numbers’, says Sabari. After travelling to Chennai and Delhi, the Museum of Recollections exhibition has arrived in Bengaluru, this time within the type of a digital museum.
‘Because the world seems to COP for progress on local weather finance, the Museum of Recollections highlights an important fact: these most affected by local weather disasters are sometimes the least answerable for them. Because the fossil gasoline business continues to revenue with none accountability, communities on the entrance strains are in more and more pressing want of help to adapt.’, says Amruta S.N., Local weather Campaigner at Greenpeace India. Fossil fuels accounts for over 75 p.c of world greenhouse gasoline emissions and almost 90 per cent of all carbon dioxide emissions. She additional emphasises that it’s time for a ‘polluters pay precept’, ie., governments should safe finance for group resilience, guaranteeing that those that’ve pushed the local weather disaster pay up for the loss and injury they’ve brought about.
Bhumika Saraswati, journalist and filmmaker, who works on the intersection of local weather, caste, and gender is holding a workshop on the occasion that focuses on artistic documentation of the impacts of maximum warmth, and the way warmth intersects with gender, caste, and id in our on a regular basis life. We will even mirror on the gendered nature of sure crises and the way they exacerbate current inequalities. ‘Any dialog on local weather is incomplete with out addressing the intersections of gender and caste, particularly in India and the entire of South Asia, the place caste and patriarchy are central to our social and local weather justice challenges. Ladies, significantly these from oppressed caste and sophistication backgrounds, expertise excessive climate occasions disproportionately. Local weather discussions should centre our communities—these most affected—to make sure an equitable and inclusive strategy to justice. It’s excessive time.’
The 2-day occasion additionally consists of episodes of Story Circles, an interactive occasion the place group storytellers share private experiences of loss, hope, and resilience within the face of the local weather disaster. An immersive digital actuality video can also be on show permitting viewers to expertise the wonder and fragility of the Sundarbans by means of the story of Badal Das, an area fisherman.
About Greenpeace India
Greenpeace India is part of the worldwide environmental organisation, devoted to tackling urgent environmental challenges by means of advocacy, campaigns, and public engagement. Greenpeace India’s Local weather Justice Marketing campaign advocates for accountability, equitable coverage adjustments, and local weather finance to handle the rising local weather impacts felt by communities in South Asia.
In regards to the Museum of Artwork and Pictures (MAP)
MAP is a non-profit, personal artwork museum based mostly in Bengaluru, India that could be a custodian to a group of Indian artwork, textiles, images, craft, and design objects spanning from the twelfth century to the current. The most recent occasion is beneath its cluster of programming conceptualised beneath the everlasting exhibition VISIBLE/INVISIBLE: Illustration of Ladies in Artwork by means of the MAP Assortment.
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