FES Funded ProjectsOutputs
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| Energy Emergency Repair KitResearch-creation art-bookT04-P01, T04-P02 University of Alberta, Memorial University | Publication | 2022-04-23 | Simpson, M., Jessie Beier, "Joan Greer ", "Tsema Igharas ", Mookerjea, S., "tegan moore ", Moore, L., "catlin kelly-kuzyk ", "jerome tave ", "kyle lawson " | | We Were In It: Experiments with Flash Fiction and EnergyPresented as part of Petrocultures 2022: Transformations. Lisa Moore's presentation discussed a collection of flash fiction and visual art edited by Moore and Sheena Wilson for Speculative Energy Futures, a collaborative research-creation based project at the University of Alberta, as well as the role of visual art and literature in the cultural politics of renewable energy system changeT04-P01 Memorial University | Activity | 2022-08-24 | | | E.E.R.K.: ENERGY EMERGENCY REPAIR KITA fictional manual to help disrupt today’s all-too-real energy and climate emergencies. The Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.) is a collaboratively-authored research-creation intervention that explores myriad ecological, cultural, and political resonances of the three concepts named in its title: energy, emergency, and repair. The E.E.R.K combines image, text, and sound to riff on the idea of a repair manual—that staple genre of self-help and self-making—while exploring energy emergency and energy emergence in several entangled registers.
Created collectively by artists, designers, and scholars working and living at various places on Turtle Island, the E.E.R.K. offers a host of situated activities and speculative probes designed to respond to today and tomorrow’s energy emergencies. The kit intermingles diagrammatic designs with instructional convolutions and perplexing protocols that supply non-programmatic yet highly pragmatic means for navigating, communicating, operating, and undoing the investments that have come to overdetermine energetic relations in the past, present, and future. Triggered most immediately by the pandemic moment circa 2020, with its strangely intermittent and inscrutable convolutions of fossil-fueled business-as-usual, the E.E.R.K. reflects and reckons the long-roiling and fully chronic energy emergency orchestrated over several centuries by racial-fossil capitalism’s mass production of injustices.
The E.E.R.K. positions energy as more than just a resource to be exploited and managed, more than an infrastructural obstacle to overcome, more than fuel for the nightmares that lie ahead (or that are, in too many cases, already here). As a generative, multitudinous fabulation, the E.E.R.K. probes energetic networks—the bonds of endeavour; the glow of affection; the pulse of attunement; the drive of subtraction; the charge of uncertainty; the resilience of exhaustion; the obstinacy of making do; the shadow of fossils; the pull of futurity; the zeroes and ones; the force of an otherwise—that, together, seem to compose the circuits of energy emergency now.T04-P01 University of Alberta, Memorial University | Publication | 2024-09-03 | | | We Were in It: Stories about Energy TransitionBringing together academics, scientists, creative writers, visual artists, lawyers, and policy makers, We Were In It is a collaborative effort to attack the problem of climate crisis from very different backgrounds and perspectives, through fiction. The fusion of scholarship, literary writing, research, and creativity allows the strengths of many forms of writing to address the unfolding crisis of our modern petrocultures. Relying on the brevity of flash fiction to reflect the ticking clock of the climate crisis, the stories contained in this collection are slick as oil but against oil. They are a speculation about the future, taking notes from the present and the past as a portal to a better world.
T04-P01 University of Alberta, Memorial University | Publication | 2025-03-31 | Wilson, S., Moore, L., Mookerjea, S., "Ruth Beer ", "Caitlin Fisher ", "Satoshi Ikeda ", "Soheila Esfahani ", "Evan Davies ", "Luke Johnson ", Natalie Loveless, "Kurtis McAdam ", Lewandowski, K., "Janice Makokis ", "Patrick Mahon ", "Scott Smallwood " | | The SoundShort story in the fiction book We Were In It: Stories About Energy Transition.
T04-P01 Memorial University | Publication | 2025-03-31 | | | CalfShort story in the fiction book We Were In It: Stories About Energy Transition.
T04-P01 Memorial University | Publication | 2025-03-31 | | | Flower PowerShort story in the fiction book We Were In It: Stories About Energy Transition.
T04-P01 Memorial University | Publication | 2025-03-31 | | | The SpillShort story in the fiction book We Were In It: Stories About Energy Transition.
T04-P01 Memorial University | Publication | 2025-03-31 | | | Mask, ExplodedShort story in the fiction book We Were In It: Stories About Energy Transition.
T04-P01 Memorial University | Publication | 2025-03-31 | |
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