February 1– April 5, 2023
The second cycle of "Imagine the Ocean Dry as Lavender" brings OCEAN / UNI back to the Mediterraneans and their warming seas as hotspots for highly interconnected climate risks. The program is developed by TBA21Academy in collaboration with research-based curatorial platform
EX NUNC. In its first iteration, "Imagine the Ocean Dry as Lavender" focused on the topic of aridity in relation to the Mediterranean Sea and, in extension, to other parts of the world undergoing processes of aridification and "mediterraneization", so to imagine possible planetary scenarios in a rapidly heating climate. During this second cycle, we wish to deepen an enquiry into the connections between climate politics and the ever-renewing processes and modes of coloniality in the Mediterraneans.
OCEAN / UNI is an art–activism–law–science learning initiative, online, tuition free, and open to the general public. The curriculum invites fluid thinking with the Ocean as a way to move towards more amphibious actions, beyond the binaries of land and sea. Aiming to complement and enhance land-based understanding of the Earth, it covers a wide range of ecological, political, aesthetic, ethical, and scientific topics around the realities and futures of the Ocean.
