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Talking Time
23 Jul 2023 4-6pm
TACO!
London SE2 9FA
Overview
Talking Time is an afternoon of talks and discussion about human relationships with perceptions and models of time, including capitalist time, neoliberal time, deep time, crisis time, and tree time.
The afternoon includes short presentations, readings and imaginings from a range of invited physicists, environmentalists and artists. Speakers include Chamkaur Ghag - professor of physics at UCL, Chiara Famengo curator and researcher working at the intersection of art and ecology, Dean Kenning artist, and the Alternative School of Economics.
Talking Time is the first public event of Tree Time, an ongoing research project by The Alternative School of Economics that has been commissioned by TACO! Tree Time explores the relationship of trees with our expansive notions of time as a useful tool for thinking about and understanding our connection with the natural environment, ecological complexity, and imagining the future.
The project looks at the value ascribed to both trees in the context of an urgent climate crisis; the role of financial capitalism, green economies and neoliberal life in contributing to or mitigating climate change. It will also uses scientific analysis of a particular tree/s as a way to investigate the local ecosystem it supports.
The Alternative School of Economics are undertaking activity around Thamesmead including walks, reading groups, screenings, talks and workshops that engage local people in a conversation about ecology and place. Outcomes from this learning together will be shared to a wider public through events, radio broadcasts and publications.
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The Alternative School of Economics is a collaboration between artists Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck, formed in 2012. They make art that questions economic doctrine and knowledge hierarchies. Working and collaborating with communities, they explore global political issues in relation to the complexity of lived experience. Using feminist and alternative economics and pedagogies as forms of resistance, they produce film, graphics, photography, texts and clothing, as forms of activation, dissemination and reflection, shared to publics in art and non-art contexts. Recent projects include Artists’ Economies, UKS, Oslo, The End of the Present, Arts Catalyst, London & Sheffield, and True Currency: About Feminist Economics, Gasworks, London.
