Please note that this is a tentative programme
Wednesday April 6
10.00-11.00 Registration and coffee
11.00-11.30 Welcome to Climate Existence 2016
11.30-12.30 ArtCOP21 – a global cultural movement on climate change, a keynote talk by David Buckland
12.30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14.00 Plenary gathering and introducing afternoon sessions
14:00-15.30 Parallell Sessions
A) Workshop: Movements in the shadow of climate change (TBC). Dougald Hine
B) Experiential conversation: The Machine in the Garden – Animism and Technology (TBC). David Abram with Jan van Boeckel
C) Paper presentations: 1) Heterotopic Happenings – Invoking the Radical Imagination and Inspiring New Human- Ecological Norms through British Climate Change Performance. Kate Monson & 2) Bridges and barriers for reconnecting arts and sciences for sustainability. Guðrún Pétursdóttir, Diego Galafassi, Tinna Gunnarsdóttir, Peter Dammand, Fríða Björk Ingvarsdóttir, Ulrika Fern, Aune Kallinen & Paula Crabtree
D) Conversation: Could we have existed elsewhere, and why don’t we? Bengt Gustafsson
15:30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.00 Extreme Dialogue – Climate Existence 2016, Andrea Nightingale, Hans Liljenström and Eva Bakkeslett. Dialogue hosted by Jakob Grandin.
17.00-18.30 Pre-dinner program including film screenings, art viewings, sauna and more..
18:30 Dinner
20.00 Post-dinner program starts including concert by Alex and Therese
Thursday April 7
08:30-09:00 Good morning – perspectives and an intervention
09:00-9:45 Between opening our senses and giving in to psychic numbing: Artistic engagement in an age of Climate fear, a keynote talk by Jan van Boeckel
9.45-10.15 Coffee
10.15-11.45 Parallell Sessions
A) Workshop: GUT FEELINGS – Fermenting collaborative cultureS, Eva Bakkeslett
B) Paper presentations: 1) What can make us change?, Alf Linderman, Uno Svedin and Hans Liljenström & 2) The Limits of Responsibility; proposing (R-)evolutionary Re-sponse, Pia Skoglund
C) Negotiating for survival – Tuvalu and the power of Artivism, Vincent J.F. Huang
D) Poetry reading and storytelling discussion: Anthropocene – Verse for a new Epoch, Jonas Gren
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.00 Spirituality and faith in an era of ecological unravelling, A keynote talk by Antje Jackelén, Archbishop and Primate, Church of Sweden (Open to the Public)
14.00-15.30 Parallell Sessions
A) Workshop and conversation: The Politics of Emotion, Belonging and Collective ActionAndrea Nightingale with Eva Lövbrand
B) Workshop: Inner Transition – an Adventure into Deep Time. Emilia Rekestad, David Bennett, Peter Hagerrot and Pella Thiel, Transition Network Sweden
C) Film screening and conversation: Where will you be? A fictional short film exploring Sweden’s climate future(s). Bigger Picture Network
D) Workshop and conversation: The Monster More Dangerous Than Climate Change Brian Palmer
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.30 Armchair Conversation, David Abram, Antje Jackelen and Dougald Hine
17.30-19.00 Pre-dinner activities such as film screenings, art viewings, sauna, bar open, tour of the foundation and more..
19.00 Dinner
20.30 Post dinner activities including concert by Garland
Friday April 8
08.45-09.15 Good morning – perspectives
09.15-10.00 Mini Sessions: being and acting in the shadow of climate change
10.00-10.30 Coffee
10.30-11.00 Existing in Change – A personal reflection on engagement, keynote by Isabella Lövin, Swedish minister of foreign development aid (open to the Public)
11.00-12.00 Conversation: Looking back and moving forward – climate, existence and the power of engagement, Isabella Lövin, Doreen Stabinsky and… (open to the Public)
12.00-12.30 Concluding remarks and thoughts
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Programs from previous conferences can be found under Previous Conferences