| Art exhibition explores energy futures University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-12-19 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N., "Ruth Beer", Jessie Beier, "Sean Caulfield", Davies, E., "Wallace Edwards", "Soheila Esfahani", "Caitlin Fisher", "Joan Greer", "Steven Hoffman", "Tsēmā Igharas", Mookerjea, S., "Satoshi Ikeda", "Luke Johnson", "Patrick Mahon", "Janice Makokis", "Lisa Moore", "Tegan Moore", Simpson, M., "Scott Smallwood", "Rachel Snow", "Diana Steinhauer", "Clarence Whitestone", "Kurtis McAdam" |
| Behind the Scenes: iDoc and Future Energy Systems University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-29 | Tam, K., Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S., Loveless, N. |
| Des résidents de Bonnie Doon se concertent pour réduire leur consommation d'énergie/Bonnie Doon residents work together to reduce energy useRadio-Canada (ICI Alberta) profile by Katrine Deniset on La Cité community energy transition project, La Cité Résiliente: A Decade in Transition. University of Alberta | Publication | 2020-02-18 | Wilson, S., Danika Jorgensen Skakum, Jessie Beier, "Daniel Cournoyer", "Laurence Mailhiot", "Shafraaz Kaba", "Trina Larsen", "Jacob Komar" |
| Energy Fair/Foire de l’énergie – Dec 5, 2019Blog post about iDoc/SEF student event at La Cité Francophone. | Publication | 2019-12-06 | Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Future Energy Systems Hosts First Research Symposium University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-04-04 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S., MaryElizabeth Luka |
| Hello There | Publication | 2018-08-15 | Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Joint Statement: Idle No More, Defenders of the Land & Truth Before Reconciliation | Publication | 2018-09-13 | Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Just Living Together for Just Powers | Publication | 2018-08-15 | Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Just Powers: Making the Energy Transition Better for Everyone University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-09-10 | Wilson, S. |
| Launch + Learn/Casse croûtes et casse-têtes pour le climatBlog post about an SEF/iDoc community event with La Cité Francophone. | Publication | 2019-11-24 | Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Le Téleéjournal Alberta Profile on Prototypes for Possible Worlds ExhibitionNews broadcast on the Prototypes for Possible Worlds SEF December 2019 exhibition -- beginning at the 23:00 mark. University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-12-20 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N. |
| Meet the 2019 EcoCity Edmonton Grant Recipients University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-05-21 | Wilson, S., Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Messagers’ Forum: Patrick MahonArt review by Dr. Madeline Lennon on Patrick Mahon's exhibition "Messagers' Forum". Centred.ca.
| Publication | 2020-11-04 | "Patrick Mahon" |
| New Research Initiative Seeks to Bring Marginalized Voices to the Debate University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-03-05 | Wilson, S. |
| Opinion: Imagining a Brighter Post-Oil Future Requires Broader InputAn opinion piece in the Montreal Gazette detailing After Oil School 2. University of Alberta, University of Waterloo | Publication | 2019-05-21 | Simpson, M., Wilson, S., Szeman, I., Jordan Kinder |
| Petrocultures 2018 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-12-03 | Danika Jorgensen Skakum, Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S., Loveless, N. |
| Petrocultures: Day 1 | Publication | 2018-08-30 | Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Petrocultures: Day 2 | Publication | 2018-08-31 | Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Petrocultures: Day 3 | Publication | 2018-09-01 | Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Petrocultures: Day 4 | Publication | 2018-09-02 | Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Powered Up University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-05-03 | Wilson, S. |
| Understanding How Society Will Change as We Move to Renewable Energy Sources University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-03-29 | Tam, K., Wilson, S., Loveless, N., Mookerjea, S. |
| « Les étudiants prennent les devants » University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-12-12 | Wilson, S., Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| « Une exposition pour explorer les futurs énergétiques »Written and radio profile on the SEF exhibition in December 2019, "Prototypes for Possible Worlds." University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-12-17 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N., "Ruth Beer", Jessie Beier, "Sean Caulfield", Davies, E., "Wallace Edwards", "Soheila Esfahani", "Caitlin Fisher", "Joan Greer", "Steven Hoffman", "Tsēmā Igharas", "Satoshi Ikeda", "Luke Johnson", "Patrick Mahon", "Janice Makokis", "Lisa Moore", "Tegan Moore", Mookerjea, S., Simpson, M., "Scott Smallwood", "Rachel Snow", "Diana Steinhauer", "Clarence Whitestone", "Kurtis McAdam" |
| “I Love Machines”: VISCOSITY by Theatre YesReview of theatre installation featuring oil narratives. SEF/iDoc researchers were part of the panel following the event. | Publication | 2018-11-17 | Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| “Let’s Change Something Before Climate Changes Everything”Blog Post on the Change for Climate public speakers series. | Publication | 2018-10-25 | Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Hacking the Techno-Transition: The Possibilities of Deep Energy LiteracyAbstract: This article takes the E.L. Smith Solar Farm at the E.L. Smith Water treatment plant in Alberta – a province at the epicentre of Canada’s oil and gas industry – as a case study for what I call deep energy literacy. An energy transition away from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources is a necessary first response to climate change. Deep energy literacy is a proposition, a set of theoretical concepts, through which to disrupt, or “hack”, technophilic transitions by attending to intersectional feminist and decolonial politics and solidarities. Technocratic solutions for decarbonization that do not radically reorient existing social, economic, and political relationships are failed solutions even before implementation begins because they have not addressed the root cause of climate change: a bankrupt extractivist worldview. This worldview is the cause of not only climate change but multiple converging crises. Deep energy literacy is a proposition grounded in relationality that can help us identify problems more holistically and thereby come up with solutions that not only address necessary energy transition shifts, but that do so while simultaneously addressing a plethora of other concerns – including but not limited to Indigenous (re)conciliation – by creating more equitable and just societies and ecosystems. Seen through the lens of deep energy literacy, this analysis of the processes through which the E.L. Smith Solar Farm project was approved illustrates that when decisions about new energy infrastructure are based in entrenched economic, political, social, and epistemological paradigms, they fail to disrupt the status quo and therefore fail to adequately address the root causes of climate change. To achieve a just transition many experiments need to take place; many of these experimentations will be imperfect. In the case study considered in this paper, I suggest that while deep energy literacy conversations were begun, they were not integrated fulsomely enough. Nonetheless, there are positive lessons to be taken from the E.L. Smith Solar Farm and integrated into future decision-making processes.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2022-10-18 | Wilson, S. |
| Notes from the Energetic Quietus | Publication | 2019-12-10 | Jessie Beier, "Tegan Moore" |
| Oil Topography: Weaving the World of OilAbstract for "Oil Topography: Weaving the World of Oil," co-written by Ruth Beer and Thomas Borsa: Taking inspiration from Pendakis and Wilson’s (2012) call to “sight, cite, and site” oil, in this piece we consider how interventions in artistic material practice can offer up complementary, and at times entirely unique, modes of engaging with the materialities of oil and petro-media. Building on conversations of the past several years, we make particular reference to "Oil Topography" (2014), a hand-woven jacquard tapestry created and produced by Ruth Beer.
| Publication | 2022-06-14 | "Ruth Beer", "Thomas Borsa" |
| Reflections on Collaboration as Performance and the Performance of Collaboration in an Age of COVID and Climate CrisisNatalie Loveless and Sheena Wilson reflect on their history of working collaboratively, thinking through the complexities of feminist labour informed by research on the maternal as social performance and social fact. Whether resculpting academic political spaces in more sustainable ways or reshaping daily reality according to more ecological form, the authors argue for collaborative praxis—collaborative performance and the performance of collaboration—as a means of resistance and resilience in a time of political and climate catastrophe.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2021-07-20 | Loveless, N., Wilson, S. |
| River: Forking Paths, Monsters, Simultaneous Timelines and Continuity over 25 Years of Creative Practiceonline peer-reviewed journal. | Publication | 2021-09-12 | "Caitlin Fisher" |
| “A Snap of the Universe”: Digital Storytelling, as in Conversation with Caitlin FisherOnline peer reviewed journal. | Publication | 2021-02-07 | "Caitlin Fisher" |
| Research Award University of Alberta | Award | 2017-12-31 | Wilson, S. |
| Shifting Ground: Mapping Energy, Geographies and Communities in the NorthShifting Ground: Mapping Energy, Community and Geography in the North is a SSHRC-supported experimental artistic research project designed to provoke new thinking and action around resource extraction, energy transition, and socioenvironmental adaptation in communities of the circumpolar North. Led by an international team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, writers, and curators, this four-year project emerges from the necessity to create new aesthetic expressions that reflect the landscapes, lived experiences, and future imaginaries of anthropogenic climate change in more inclusive terms. At its core, Shifting Ground aims to deepen dialogue about climate change and generate alternative artistic representations that have been hitherto obscured, ignored, or downplayed in conversations around energy transition and transformation. By exploring these themes through the lens of contemporary art, Shifting Ground sets out to link local resiliencies with global concerns.
| Award | 2019-07-23 | "Ruth Beer" |
| SSHRC Insight Grant, “GardenShip & State: Art and the Environment as a Commons” | Award | 2020-04-22 | "Patrick Mahon", "Joan Greer", "Sean Caulfield" |
| How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-08-01 | Loveless, N. |
| "Approved for Release"Contribution to Speculative Energy Futures volume. University of Alberta | Publication | 2023-05-04 | Simpson, M., Jessie Beier, Mookerjea, S., "Joan Greer", "Tsema Igharas", "Tegan Moore" |
| "Energy Mediacy"Essay in Speculative Energy Futures volume, in preparation. University of Alberta | Publication | 2023-05-04 | Simpson, M., Jessie Beier |
| Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Form: A Panel RevisitedThe following forum emerges from a panel called Art and/in the Anthropocene: A Debate on Sustainability and Ecology that was co-organized by Natalie Loveless and Jessie Beier for the Kule Institute for Advanced Study’s Around the World e-Conference in May of 2018. The conference panel invited discussion by six artist-scholars in addition to the organizers – Karin Bolender, Christa Donner, Mia Feuer, Leanne Olson, Scott Smallwood and Andrew Yang. Together they discussed two pre-circulated questions: one on sustainability and one on ecological form. Organized and edited by Loveless, the contributions in this forum respond to these questions. Yang argues for systems thinking in the context of art and ecology; Bolender considers multispecies care practices; Donner makes a plea for intergenerational empathy and collective problem-solving; Olson examines our disavowed relations to waste; Smallwood grapples with problems of representing the Anthropocene; Beier reflects, in a speculative-fictive form, on the folly of attempting to sustain our current ways of living and dying; and Loveless concludes with a reflection on art, ecological form and climate justice ethics. Together these short essays invite the reader to consider the role of art in creating new conditions for climate justice thinking and action.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2021-04-22 | Loveless, N., "Scott Smallwood", Jessie Beier |
| Beyond belief: Visionary cinema, becoming imperceptible and pedagogical resistance | Publication | 2019-10-01 | Jessie Beier |
| Close Encounters of the pedagogical kind: Science-fictioning a curriculum-to-come | Publication | 2019-06-12 | Jessie Beier |
| Dispatch from the future: Science fictioning (in) the Anthropocene | Publication | 2018-09-01 | Jessie Beier |
| Energy Imaginaries: Feminist and Decolonial Futures University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-07-20 | Wilson, S. |
| Energy Transition Research (Creation)Online art book/catalogue. University of Alberta | Publication | 2021-06-01 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N. |
| Haraway’s Dog: Teaching Research-Creation as Interdisciplinary Method University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-12-19 | Loveless, N. |
| Intermedia Research Creation and Hydrapolitics: Counter-environments of the Commons University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-12-01 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Introduction: Seeds and Tools University of Alberta | Publication | 2022-03-08 | Loveless, N. |
| Mapping New Genre Arctic Art | Publication | 2021-11-19 | "Ruth Beer" |
| Research and Creation: Socially-engaged art in The City of Richgate Project Trans. K. Kasahara | Publication | 2019-03-28 | "Ruth Beer" |
| Shikata ga nai University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-10-22 | Wilson, S. |
| The Potential of Art and Design for Renewable Economies in the Arctic | Publication | 2021-12-14 | "Ruth Beer" |
| Thoughts on an Unfinished Composition | Publication | 2021-04-08 | "Scott Smallwood" |
| Tracing a black hole: Probing cosmic darkness in Anthropocenic timesIn April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project released an unprecedented image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxy Messier 87. The image, which shows a dark disc outlined by swirling hot gas circling the black hole’s event horizon, exhibits a 55 million-year-old cosmic event in the Virgo galaxy cluster—a void of stellar mass measuring some 6.5 billion times that of our sun. Situated within today’s (Good) Anthropocene scenario, characterized as it is by both the rise of an inhospitable planet but also a range of good vibes and affirmative mantras, this tracing explores this newly “discovered” black hole in terms of the unthinkable questions and speculative trajectories it raises for education and its futures. Through a series of forays into astrophysics, historical examples of cosmic imaging, and further exploration of the image created by EHT, this tracing outlines the black hole and its apparent horizons in order to propose a strange vantage point from which pedagogical problem-posing might be interrupted, mutated, and relaunched. By turning to that which lies outside of the traditional science classroom—beyond the school, beyond curriculum, indeed, beyond the planet itself—this tracing seeks to probe this black hole event in terms of its weird and weirding pedagogical trajectories so as to speculate on unthought possibilities for resituating (science) education in the age of the Anthropocene.
| Publication | 2021-12-08 | Jessie Beier |
| Trafficking in Petronormativities: At the Intersections of Petrofeminism, Petrocolonialism, and Petrocapitalism University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-08-29 | Wilson, S. |
| You can learn a lot of things from the flowers...a short essay about the Carbon Capture Library and images of the installation, published in "The Forecast", ed. Elena Siemens, coming out later this year. | Publication | 2021-09-30 | "Luke Johnson" |
| Art and Activism at the End(s) of the World(s) University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-11-10 | Loveless, N. |
| Art and Climate Justice Action: Materializing the AnthropoceneThis talk asks what artistic approaches and sensibilities can offer to debate surrounding Anthropogenic climate change, attending to the difference between art on ecology and art that is formed ecologically. As well as giving theoretical and art historical background for this distinction, Loveless speculates on how the politics of form (what a form does in the world) intersects with ecological ethics when the use of fossil fuel resources (as, in Olafur Eliasson’s 2015 Ice Watch, those needed to ship 300 pound blocks of glacier ice to the center of Paris) are central to the production of artworks addressing ecology, global warming, and climate debt. Offering nuanced reflection on such works, this talk highlights the importance of a multi-sensorial and multi-species understanding of ecological ethics that takes the question of aesthetic form seriously in the context of art on and in the Anthropocene. University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-03-29 | Loveless, N. |
| Art and/in the Anthropocene: A Debate on Sustainability and Ecology University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-05-01 | Loveless, N., Jessie Beier |
| Art, Activism, and Global Crisis University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-04-21 | Loveless, N. |
| Art, Activism, and Global Crisis speaker and workshop series(Event organized) September 2020-May 2021 SSHRC-funded speaker and workshop series. Each presentation is by an artist or scholar interested in "modest" ephemeral performance forms that work to engender political consciousness (specifically with regard to climate justice). Speakers/conveners included Marilyn Arsem, Dylan Robinson, Stephanie Loveless, J.R. Carpenter, and Stephanie Springgay. University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-09-01 | Loveless, N. |
| Art, Activism, and Global Crisis speaker and workshop series(Event organized) September 2020-May 2021 SSHRC-funded speaker and workshop series. Each presentation is by an artist or scholar interested in "modest" ephemeral performance forms that work to engender political consciousness (specifically with regard to climate justice). Speakers/conveners included Marilyn Arsem, Dylan Robinson, Stephanie Loveless, J.R. Carpenter, and Stephanie Springgay. University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-04-08 | Loveless, N. |
| Art, Ecology, Energy and Speculative FuturesThis presentation provided an overview to the Speculative Energy Futures initiative, including an introduction to the project, explorations of our theoretical catalysts, and a series of video intermezzos featuring curated virtual conversations with several members from the team. University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-09-01 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N., Jessie Beier |
| Artist talk(lecture) at Messagers’ ForumOpening Talks to accompany art exhibition | Activity | 2020-09-16 | "Patrick Mahon" |
| Artists Making Change: Art for Social Change | Activity | 2021-02-25 | "Sean Caulfield" |
| Arts of the Anthropocene University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-11-22 | Loveless, N. |
| Audio Games Lab: Audio and Musical Puzzle Mechanics in GamesTalk given at the Game, Music and Sound Design Conference. This talk, focused on several novel audio puzzle mechanics from the game "The Lost Garden," a 3D first-person escape game that deals with the soundscapes of climate change. The game was developed in Unity along with Chunity, a strongly-timed language for real-time audio synthesis and processing within Unity. Scott Smallwood also discussed his mandate as a game studio within an academic institution, and the orientation towards games as interactive musical albums.
| Activity | 2022-10-26 | "Scott Smallwood" |
| Black GoldArtist talk as part of Tsēmā Igharas's solo exhibition
| Activity | 2021-02-26 | "Tsēmā Igharas" |
| Celebrating the Emergency Act and the Enforcement of Carceral Law: What Other Futures are Possible?Conference session for Petrocultures 2022: Transformations.
Abstract: There is a lot of debate among Canadians about the trucker convoy and how it was handled. Opinions do not divide clearly according to party-lines, or even separate out in coherent ways across the political gamut. This talk provided a short analysis of the trucker convoy through an intersectional, feminist, decolonial lens, speaking specifically to the petrocultural extractivist logics maintained across the spectrum of political alliances. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-08-25 | Wilson, S. |
| CoLAB Meeting: Diggin' In to the IPCC Special Report Discussion and workshop on the most recent IPCC 'Special Report.' University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-02-08 | Jessie Beier, Wilson, S., Loveless, N., Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| CoLAB Meeting: Energy Imaginaries + The Perfect Storm: Energy Transition GameThis event featured a test-run of the Perfect Storm: Feminist Energy Transition role-playing game, developed by Dr. Sourayan Mookerjea. The Perfect Storm game enables players to explore the cultural and class politics of energy transition in Canada, while also providing an opportunity to examine gamification as an instrument of spectacular participation. How might you prevent a ‘perfect storm’ of ongoing climate change events through energy transition politics and policy? University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-10-26 | Mookerjea, S., Wilson, S., Loveless, N., Jessie Beier, Charles Stubblefield, Ipek Oskay, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| CoLAB Meeting: Expanding the Infrastructural Imagination Discussion of questions around feminist infrastructure and community-building that are focused on developing collective responses and alternative imaginaries to today's pressing ecological issues University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-04-12 | Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum, Wilson, S., Loveless, N. |
| CoLAB Meeting: Materializing Climate ChangeThis meeting featured a reading of Dr. Nicole Shukin’s 2015 article “Materializing Climate Change: Image of Exposure, States of Exception”, followed by a discussion of how both artistic and scientific representations might be mobilized in order to produce moving, material images of the historical crisis of climate change. University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-12-07 | Wilson, S., Danika Jorgensen Skakum, Jessie Beier |
| CoLAB Meeting: ‘Sensing the Anthropocene’This discussion featured a workshop with Dr. Natalie Loveless in relation to her current project ‘Sensing the Anthropocene,’ which explores the role and import of artistic practice and research in relation to today’s pressing ecological, and by extension, socio-political and representational, issues. By focusing on a series of large-scale art projects focused on ecological questions and issues, we explored both the limits and potentials of art for raising climate justice awareness in the context of policy meetings such as IPCC and COP. University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-03-08 | Loveless, N., Jessie Beier, Wilson, S. |
| CoLAB/IRS/Space & Culture Meeting: Energy ImaginariesThis event featured a test-run of the Perfect Storm: Feminist Energy Transition role-playing game, developed by Dr. Sourayan Mookerjea. The Perfect Storm game enables players to explore the cultural and class politics of energy transition in Canada, while also providing an opportunity to examine gamification as an instrument of spectacular participation. How might you prevent a ‘perfect storm’ of ongoing climate change events through energy transition politics and policy?
University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-10-26 | Mookerjea, S., Charles Stubblefield, Ipek Oskay, Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Contemporary Art/Design: Imaging Canadian Arctic Landscape through Heritage Crafts and Photo-based Artificial Intelligence | Activity | 2021-06-17 | "Ruth Beer" |
| Convergences: Research Creation Project, An interdisciplinary artwork/speculationIn this presentation for Petrocultures 2022: Transformations Ruth Beer discussed “Convergences,” a multi-modal, collaborative, interdisciplinary research-creation installation presented as part of the exhibition Prototypes for Possible Worlds (collaborative December 13-16th, 2019) at the University of Alberta. For “Convergences” artists, creative writers, an Indigenous legal scholar, and Indigenous (Cree) Elder storytellers worked together to underscore the imperative, in Western Canada and elsewhere, for energy transition to take into account social and environmental justice.They advocate for transformation that addresses inequality and non-human abuse through the inclusion of feminist and indigenous perspectives and ways of knowing, and strengthening intercultural relations. Their collaboration resulted in the production of the interconnected components for the “Convergences” installation. | Activity | 2022-08-24 | "Ruth Beer" |
| Critical Theory of Technology Reading + Working Group SeriesOngoing bimonthly series at Intermedia Research Studio University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-09-28 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Decarbonizing and Carbon Catching for Planet Positive Futures: Surviving the pandemic and global warming | Activity | 2021-03-15 | "Satoshi Ikeda" |
| Decolonizing Degrowth/Pluriversal RegenerationIn recent years, through the contestation of symbolic figures, campaigns such as #RhodesMustFall have highlighted the lasting impact of colonialism in the public realm. These campaigns exist alongside wider debates about the less visible legacy of colonialism in contemporary power relations and the ongoing exclusions and oppressions that they sustain. In the education sector, and in Universities in particular, these discussions have prompted reflection on the possibilities and advantages of decolonising the curriculum. Attempts to diversify a Euro-centric and culturally hegemonic syllabus, have revealed more deep-rooted, structural challenges than a mere re-shuffling of the personnel that appear on reading lists. At the same time, important discussions have started in a wide range of research fields and disciplines on the colonial assumptions underpinning established intellectual traditions and research practices. This project poses the question of what it means to decolonise the methodologies used for engaging in intellectual production. We need to ask whether the concepts and questions through which we inscribe our inquiries are committed to modes of thought that perpetuate and sustain coloniality.
The Critical Theory in Hard Times research network was initiated in February 2019 at Manchester Metropolitan with a research cluster event centred on the question: ‘What does it means to be critical today?’ This academic year, we hope to reflect on the relationship between coloniality and critical thought today. Our efforts as a network to re-think critical theory beyond the silos of particular traditions of critical traditions (including but not limited to postcolonial and decolonial thought, feminism, critical race theory, Frankfurt School, Gramscian, Bourdieusian, Foucauldian approaches, deconstruction), lead us to ask about the potential for dialogue and engagement between these approaches concerning the question of (de)colonisation. This workshop will ask to what extent a dialogue between these traditions, or a clarification of the terms of their incompatibility, can contribute towards identifying the resources that they provide towards creating a global critical theory.
We are looking to experiment with the format of our engagement by hosting less formal modes of presentation in order to encourage discussions between contributors rather than a series of presentations. University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-05-05 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Dissent in/as Solidarity: Confronting Anthropocene Banality | Activity | 2018-10-27 | Charles Stubblefield, Danika Jorgensen Skakum, Jessie Beier |
| Energy Humanities, Just Powers + Energy Systems | Activity | 2019-05-07 | Danika Jorgensen Skakum, Charles Stubblefield |
| Energy Transition in Time of Crisis: Research-Creation Responses University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-06-19 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N. |
| Energy Transition in Time of Crisis: Research-Creation ResponsesEnergy In/Out of Place: A Virtual Energy Humanities Research-Creation Workshop, June 15–19 2020. University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-06-15 | Loveless, N. |
| Environmental and Climate Justice Perspectives on the UNFCC Conference of PartiesThree workshops held between 1-3:30 pm MST on May 12, 2021.
Workshop 1 Growth, Degrowth and Regeneration; Workshop 2 Climate Finance and Ecological Debt; Workshop 3 Regenerative Alternatives to Racial Capitalism and Colonialism. University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-05-12 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Environmental Studies Association of Canada conference at Congress 21Film screening of "Pikopaywin: It is broken" and subsequent discussion. University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-06-03 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Feminist Collaboration and Affective Resilience University of Alberta | Activity | 2017-10-13 | Loveless, N. |
| Feminist Living (and Dying): Collaboration, Resilience, and Dissent University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-10-03 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N. |
| Feminist SolaritiesFacilitating on-site collaborative work around the theme, "Feminist Solarities," aimed at making a concrete, ongoing contribution to public consideration of the challenge and potential of energy transition. University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-05-23 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| From Relational to Ecological Form University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-02-27 | Loveless, N. |
| Hacking the Techno-Transition University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-09-23 | Wilson, S. |
| How to Make Art at the End of the World, RevisitedInaugural Speaker, Critical Conversations. University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-02-11 | Loveless, N. |
| iDoc: Intermedia and Documentary - Future Energy Systems Theme 4 ProjectPoster presentation at Future Energy Systems Open House, October 5, 2017. | Activity | 2017-10-05 | Charles Stubblefield, Jessie Beier |
| Inappropriate Bodies and Anthropocene Ethics University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-02-15 | Loveless, N. |
| Interdisciplinarity as InterventionIndividual was Organizer and Chair University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-10-25 | Loveless, N. |
| Interlocking Oppressions at the Bitumen Frontier: Notes on a Dialectic of Subsistence Regeneration and Feminist Degrowth University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-07-07 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Intermedia Research Studio Meeting: Intermedia Research-Creation University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-11-01 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Intermedia Research Studio Orientation: Research Creation Maker Space Open House University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-09-28 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Molecular Media for Capital Sequestration: Interlocking Oppressions and Just Transitions University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-10-21 | Mookerjea, S. |
| On Situatedness and Ecological Form University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-11-07 | Loveless, N. |
| On the Communicability of the Future: The Class and Cultural Politics of Energy Democracy and Climate Action in CanadaThe class and cultural politics of low-carbon energy transition now imposes itself on an ever widening range of social movement mobilization, both explicitly and implicitly, as the role of environmental crises in the making and unfolding of social injustices comes to be more widely understood (global warming especially). In the oil producing Canadian province of Alberta, social justice movement articulations of alternative visions of the future, in order to be possible must not only be communicable, but must also negotiate with (in order to criticize or displace them) scientistic, technocratic and “business as usual” models, projections and transition pathways constructed by a nexus of governmental agencies, energy industries and ngos like the World Energy Council as well as with racist and neo-fascist conspiracy theories and apocalyptic fantasies. This paper, drawing on my ongoing research, Feminist Energy Futures: Powershift and Environmental Social Justice, examines the ideological, media, and cultural-political strategies of climate action, energy democracy and just transition activism, protest and movement-building across a range of social movement organizations and popular cultural formations in Canada including Indigenous Climate Action, Blue Green Canada, The Leap, Climate Justice Edmonton, Extinction Rebellion, Our Time (for a Green New Deal), the Alberta Federation of Labour and their publics and constituencies. In doing so, I take an intermedia ecological approach which draws upon the theoretical insights and methodological strategies of Canadian communication theory, cultural studies, political ecology, the critique of political economy, post-Western Marxism, critical race theory, social reproduction and subsistence perspective feminism in order to interrogate the conjunctural conditions of communicability of regenerative futures and real utopias. The paper thereby seeks to draw lessons from the contradictions of proprietorial class power and of anti-systemic social movement futurism for the theory and praxis of degrowth, commoning and eco-socialism.
University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-02-27 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Petrocultures 2022: TransformationsChair for Petrocultures 2022: Transformations virtual panel Intermedia Research-Creation, Resistance Visual Art and Ecological Envisioning: Regenerative Sympoesis Beyond Petrocultures with panelists Ruth Beer, Lisa Moore, and Sourayan Mookerjea. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-08-24 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Petrofeminism, Deep Energy Literacy & Other Feminist Futures University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-01-19 | Wilson, S. |
| Power Shift: Energy Transition and Energy Futurity University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-06-02 | Loveless, N. |
| Racial Capitalism, Multiple Colonialisms and the (post-)Fossil Frontier: Green New Deals, Green Passive Revolution (and Fascism Redux) University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-06-30 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Rethinking Petrocultures, War, and Democracy Through Theological LensesSheena Wilson delivered an invited virtual talk at Trinity College’s 2022 Earth Day event.
This virtual talk was given at the 2022 Trinity College Earth Day Event:
Doing Theology Amidst Epochal Shifts. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-04-22 | Wilson, S. |
| RUBIX 2023Keynote address for Rubix, an annual exhibition, symposium, and showcase event that celebrates the scholarly, research, and creative (SRC) activities within The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University. Every year, RUBIX brings together brilliant minds from across the fields of media, design, and creative industries to explore, innovate, and impact the world we live in. University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-01-26 | Loveless, N. |
| Sensing the Anthropocene: Aesthetic Attunement in an Age of Urgency University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-02-13 | Loveless, N. |
| Situated Practices in Precarious Times University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-05-04 | Loveless, N. |
| Sound Table – The Sounds of the Anthropocene. Panel participant.
| Activity | 2019-11-11 | "Scott Smallwood" |
| Sounds of the Anthropocene University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-11-21 | Loveless, N. |
| Speculative Energy Futures: Workshop #1PI and Co-I led this intensive 3-day research creation workshop for the participants of the Speculative Energy Futures project.
University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-03-09 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N., Mookerjea, S., Jessie Beier, Simpson, M., "Ruth Beer", "Sean Caulfield", "Salvatore Cucchiara", Davies, E., "Soheila Esfahani", "Joan Greer", "Steven Hoffman", "Ursula Johnson", "Satoshi Ikeda", MaryElizabeth Luka, "Patrick Mahon", "Janice Makokis", "Tegan Moore", "Lisa Moore", "Tsēmā Igharas", "Scott Smallwood" |
| Speculative Energy Futures: Workshop #2PI and Co-I led this intensive 4-day research creation workshop for the participants of the Speculative Energy Futures project at the Banff Centre for the Arts. University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-06-03 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N., Mookerjea, S., Jessie Beier, "Soheila Esfahani", Davies, E., "Satoshi Ikeda", "Tegan Moore", "Tsēmā Igharas", "Sean Caulfield", "Joan Greer", "Patrick Mahon", "Steven Hoffman", "Janice Makokis", Simpson, M., "Scott Smallwood", "Rachel Snow", "Caitlin Fischer", "Lisa Moore", "Ruth Beer" |
| Speculative Energy Futures: Workshop #3 PI and Co-I led this intensive 4-day research creation workshop for the participants of the Speculative Energy Futures project. University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-12-12 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N., Mookerjea, S., Jessie Beier, "Ruth Beer", "Sean Caulfield", Davies, E., "Wallace Edwards", "Soheila Esfahani", "Caitlin Fisher", "Joan Greer", "Steven Hoffman", "Tsēmā Igharas", "Satoshi Ikeda", "Luke Johnson", "Patrick Mahon", "Janice Makokis", "Lisa Moore", "Tegan Moore", Simpson, M., "Scott Smallwood", "Rachel Snow", "Diana Steinhauer", "Clarence Whitestone", "Kurtis McAdam" |
| Speculative Molecular Intermediain this presentation for Petrocultures 2022: Transformation, Dr. Mookerjea discussed time-bias poems he composed for three collaborative group research-creation probes, The Energy Emergency Repair Kit, and Seed Time 1 and 2, created for the Speculative Energy Futures research project. Drawing on subsistence perspective ecofeminist degrowth theory, world-ecology, and, the work of Canadian communication theorist Harold Innis, he examined the historical constraints and contradictions through which these research-creation works seed the possibility of critique and regenerative praxis in the ruins of the colonial regime of art. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-08-24 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Spores of Critique: On the Aesthetics and Poetics of Critical Practice SeriesOngoing bimonthly series started January 2019 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-01-01 | Mookerjea, S. |
| System Wide Enablers: Energy HumanitiesJoint presentation at the 2019 FES Research Symposium. University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-05-06 | Wilson, S., Simpson, M. |
| Teaching Sustainability and Climate Justice in Catastrophic Times: Journaling in the PluriverseHosted virtually by the University of Alberta, and organized by Dr. Amanda Spallacci, Dr. Orly Lael Netzer, and Dr. Julie Rak — the Teaching Life Writing Conference brought together scholars from around the world to consider current approaches, challenges, and opportunities related to life writing and pedagogy.
Joan Greer's presentation, "Teaching Sustainability and Climate Justice in Catastrophic Times: Journaling in the Pluriverse," invited readers “to join in a deep process of intellectual, emotional, ethical, and spiritual decolonization”. The visions and practices associated with the Pluriverse “are about recognizing the diversity of people’s views on planetary well-being and their skills in protecting it”. Dr. Greer's question: can journal writing and creative mark-making (text or image) in higher education provide a pluriversal form of generative thinking that can help respond to the above challenges of comprehensive decolonization and planetary well-being while contributing to student health and resilience?
| Activity | 2020-12-11 | "Joan Greer" |
| The Contemporary Crisis of ScienceSymposium organized by Dr. Mookerjea. University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-10-31 | Mookerjea, S. |
| The Pedagogy of Form: 20th Century Art and Ecological Ethics University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-01-17 | Loveless, N. |
| The Problematic of Images of the Canadian Arctic Landscape Depicting Everyday Extremes | Activity | 2021-11-11 | "Ruth Beer" |
| Toxic Media Ecologies 3: Critical Responses to the Cultural Politics of Planetary CrisisThe third Toxic Media Ecologies conference, organized by Dr. Mookerjea. University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-11-02 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Toxic Media Ecologies, Virtuous Vulnerabilities and Molecular IntermediaWhat stuff are societies made of today? What is the relationship between globalization as the movement of goods and money, as property and the reality of human and non-human body flows? How can the basic composition of the ego be described and how can it become the source of the common? What steps are conceivable to stop the permanent destruction of material and other assets? What elements would make up a political philosophy and practice of semi-permeable borders? How does one write a constitution for the coexistence of all mortals?
These and similar questions are currently driving not only science, but also philosophy and art. But they are far too big for a simple answer to make a difference in concrete life processes and economic, political, artistic contexts. The symposium The strengths of the weaknesses. societies in troubled timesis therefore dedicated to selected scenes and problem areas in which the vulnerability of the fabric of life becomes political and/or promising forms of dealing with the injuries of the Capitalocene are shown. Approaches and forms of practice are presented and discussed that turn alleged inability into assets. It is about artistic, political and philosophical approaches that deal with weakness, contamination, the ruinous, loss or mortality in a way that reverses these supposedly deficient moments in such a way that they become skills: vulnerability becomes openness for wounds; a skill in dealing with fragility; an ability to open up even in risky situations, to let the unknown and the astonishing approach you; to get involved with the other without fear, or also: to let him/her/it be. It is about an ethics of the individual, of half measures and partial alliances. It's about countering fantasies of purity that are currently picking up speed again with knowledgeable navigation in the impure. It's about locating what connects what divides and freeing concepts such as society, community and belonging from the grip of family and nation. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-12-16 | Mookerjea, S. |
| UCalgary Scholar Public Lecture: Genomic Media/Sustainable DNAOrganized talk organized through Sustainability Lecture Series, for the purposes of furthering cross-campus collaboration and research between the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta. University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-09-13 | "Mél Hogan", Wilson, S. |
| Utopian and Regenerative Praxes, Degrowth, Crises and the Revenants of Racial CapitalismFredric Jameson’s injunction to “always historicize” (1984) applies no less to our conjunctural proliferation of crises. Not only have these all been long in the making but the 20th century trajectories of the exhaustion of historical natures (Moore 2015) ensure that environmental crises will continue to constitute the fulcrum around which class politics and imperialist war on a planetary scale will turn. This paper argues for a spatialized theory of class politics adequate to contemporary racial capitalism’s twinned auto-immune reactions of green passive revolution and fascism redux. Paramilitary violence against environmental justice and anti-poverty activists and, more generally, militarized policing and (extra-)legal repression of subalternized classes and communities in the name of climate action, resilience infrastructure and national security are emerging modalities of development dispossession resulting from speculative investment opportunities provided by smart green urban renewal (Caprotti 2014), industrial corridor geopolitics (Ramachandraiah 2016) and land grabs for solar farms (Yenetti et al. 2016, Rignall 2016), wind farms (Cormack 2018), biofuels (Renzaho 2017) and carbon sinks (Fairhead et al. 2012). Drawing on research conducted through the University of Alberta’s Feminist Energy Futures initiative on the class and cultural politics of renewable energy democracy and bringing together the theoretical insights of the literatures on varieties of capitalism, the multiple colonialisms framework, feminist social reproduction and subsistence perspectives as well as post-Western Marxism’s account of interlocking systems of oppression, this paper examines the prospects for the Left’s intervention in the speculative complex of passive revolution and fascism redux. The paper takes up the debate on the state between eco-socialists (Burkett, 2006, Lowy 2015) and the degrowth movement (Jackson 2017, Kallis 2017, Mies 2000, de Angelis 2017, Federici 2011) through the detour of a critical engagement with Jameson’s redeployment of Lenin’s classical transition theory of dual power. (2016)
University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-02-25 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Visiting Artist Lecture | Activity | 2021-01-21 | "Sean Caulfield" |
| Visiting Artist Lecture | Activity | 2021-03-08 | "Sean Caulfield" |
| VPAG Presents: OPT 2021 Artist Talk Series, Virtual Artist Talk. | Activity | 2021-04-13 | "Luke Johnson" |
| Water is Life: A Visit with GardenShip & StatePanel discussion related to GardenShip and State with Jeff Thomas, Lori Blondeau, Tom Cull, Michael Farnan, Amelia Fay, Joan Greer, Mark Kasumovic, Mary Mattingly, Adrian Stimson, Andres Villar, and Michelle Wilson.
Focusing on the role of water as a life-giving force in the time of the Anthropocene, our panelists will introduce their works and activist projects to highlight the show’s overriding preoccupation with the environmental crisis and decolonization. Water is Life will present a mix of regional and international writers and artists who will demonstrate how art projects addressing environmental challenges and positive social change, may be productively intertwined to flow in the direction of hope and possibility.
| Activity | 2021-11-17 | "Patrick Mahon" |
| 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 change | Activity | 2022-08-24 | "Lisa Moore" |
| Why is Energy Transition a Feminist Issue?A presentation as part of the Intersectional Research Showcase at the launch of the Research at the Intersections of Gender Signature Area. University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-03-28 | Wilson, S. |
| Why Research-Creation? Artistic Method and the Anthropocene University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-03-26 | Loveless, N. |
| World-ecology and Hydrapolitics: Interlocking Oppressions in the Age of Exhaustion University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-02-07 | Mookerjea, S. |
| “Emergency Signals: Hearing Energy, Listening for Repair"Research-creation performative conference presentation. University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-05-02 | Simpson, M., Jessie Beier, Mookerjea, S. |
| “On Energy Transition and Renewable Futures" University of Toronto, University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-10-03 | Szeman, I., Wilson, S. |
| Connections in Friction: Socially Engaged Art in East Asia in Transnational Contact Zones | Publication | 2022-01-01 | Vicki S Kwon |
| Moving Beyond Survival in Twentieth-Century Canadian Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction 1948-1989"This thesis examines settler-Canadian post-apocalyptic science fiction (SF) by English-language and Francophone Québécois authors published between 1948 and 1989, in order to investigate how historical settler imaginations of disaster are articulated. This study is in service of several ends: first, to disrupt and interrogate the Canadian literary canon through the study of SF as a legitimate genre with important insights; second, to take a good, hard look at the development of what theorists have called a neoconservative and regressive genre in settler Canada and Québec; and third, to look to the past for strategies to live in an imagined future where worldwide disaster (“apocalypse”) has already transpired. I argue that the visions of the post-apocalyptic future that were prevalent in SF produced in Canada during the latter half of the twentieth century correspond to a singular narrative in SF that is based on and around tropes established by earlier SF and literary writing published in the US.
In the course of my research, I found that while most of the forty-four texts in this genre adhere to a specifically Canadian settler-colonial and ultimately instrumentalist worldview, there are several texts that demonstrate divergent attitudes and sociopolitical alternatives to dominant cultural imaginings of the methods of survival in the post-apocalypse. I focus my study on these few texts that I argue depart in significant ways from a dominant post-apocalyptic narrative, subverting the genre and taking it to new places. While doing so, I reference and make note of other texts and use them to illustrate my arguments, comparing and contrasting them with the main texts and tropes under discussion. In chapter order, the main theoretical lenses I employed are: 1. Canadian SF theory and environmental criticism, 2. ecofeminism and feminist posthumanism, 3. post-colonial and decolonial thought specifically focusing on Quebec and Indigenous issues, and 4. affect and queer theory.
This dissertation contributes to excavating and highlighting the colonial survival mindset that colours the stories we tell ourselves, and shines a light on the philosophies underpinning our actions as we move forward into the Anthropocene. It is a project that seeks to build imaginative capacity for writers, critics, theorists, and readers of SF. I argue that these scripts both cleave to and depart from reality, and that dominant settler assumptions based on individualism and garrison mentality as a way to survive crises ignore the crucial role of care and healthy community in encouraging human flourishing in its diverse forms.
My research shows that, in the post-apocalypse, which more often than not is marked by ongoing crises, people who are able to move beyond disaster survival narratives are the ones that in the end are able to create a life for themselves and others worth living—in non-hierarchical community, in relations of care, and in an acknowledgement of their posthuman entanglement with the non-human world and their environment. My findings from this study are that the imaginary of the post-apocalypse necessarily must incorporate community, connection, and post-anthropocentrism as key facets in order to truly move beyond the fear-driven regressive, exclusionary, and violent impulses of survival. Unsubscribing from the single version of the post-apocalyptic narrative that anticipates the garrison mentality as a necessary corollary of worldwide devastation can allow for a critical appraisal of the present in order to consciously move beyond survival and into the future."
| Publication | 2021-01-01 | Ariel Petra Kroon |
| Pedagogy at the End of the World: Weird Pedagogies for Unthought Educational FuturesThis study of Pedagogy at the End of the World investigates the “end of the world” scenarios that now characterize education and its reasons in Anthropocene times. Emerging through an interrogation of the apocalypse habits and anthropo-scenic views through which educational futurity is most often imagined, this study is oriented towards the creation of pedagogical concepts that work to problematize and resituate questions of educational futurity in relation to the planetary realities raised by today’s pressing extinction events. This research proceeds through a series of speculative studies of educational futurity, each of which is positioned as an experimental site for probing the limits of pedagogical un/thinkability so as to speculate, through concept creation, on alternative orientations to educational futurity. Importantly, each of these speculative studies endeavours to move beyond just analysis and critique of the epistemic constraints and conceptual affordances that have come to condition pedagogical possibility. By putting (apparent) educational givens into contact with a range of seemingly alien objects, transversal theories and strange examples, the speculative experiments that make up this work reframe and reorient both the educational problems and solutions raised by today’s end times scenario. It is from this experimentation that a weird pedagogy emerges, that is, an experimental (albeit always insufficient) pedagogical anti-model, a speculative programme for the unprogrammable that seeks to problematize, and ultimately counteractualize, potentials of and for Pedagogy at the End of the World. Through conceptual experimentation and weird encounters, this study aims to probe the limits of educational futurity, not as a way of surmounting or domesticating the unthought, but instead, as a mode of resituating educational problem-posing in relation to an unknown and unknowable future. As such, this study aims to practice experimental approaches to educational research that do not entail a rejection of the actual world and thus the real of impending ecocatastrophe, but instead opts for speculative modes and transversal styles of inquiry that might be capable of mutating and bifurcating educational future imaginaries. As such, this study asks: how might pedagogical thinking proceed when confronted with the unthinkable scenarios and unfathomable conditions raised by today’s anthropo-scenic milieu and its extinction events? What does educational inquiry entail when it confronts its own thresholds of rationality, or the limits of thought and thus a thought of limits, which, given education’s commitment to thinkability are demonstrably unpopular? How might educational problem-posing approach questions and issues that resist thought itself? And further, what are the conditions, preclusions, and exclusions that make something thinkable in the first place? By exploring the way in which contemporary educational un/thinkability is itself conditioned, this study is geared towards counter-actualizing both the narratives and methods that have come to overdetermine discussions of educational futurity so as to unsettle and singularize otherwise diminished conditions of pedagogical possibility. Through the speculative development of a weird pedagogy, this study of Pedagogy at the End of the World is not only framed as an experiment in pedagogical thought, but also aims to intervene within educational theory and research — into the process of study itself — so as to counter today's apocalypse habits and the banality of those end of the world concepts that have come to limit pedagogical possibilities, both now and into the future.
| Publication | 2017-01-01 | Jessie Beier |
| Perceptions and Practices of Flood Risk Management: A Case Study of Flood Risk Governance in High River, Alberta | Publication | 2019-04-01 | Eva Bogdan |
| Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-12-01 | Loveless, N. |
| Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, CulturePresenting a multifaceted analysis of the cultural, social, and political claims and assumptions that guide how we think and talk about oil, Petrocultures maps the complex and often contradictory ways in which oil has influenced the public’s imagination around the world. This collection of essays shows that oil’s vast network of social and historical narratives and the processes that enable its extraction are what characterize its importance, and that its circulation through this immense web of relations forms worldwide experiences and expectations. University of Alberta, University of Waterloo | Publication | 2017-06-01 | Wilson, S., Adam Carlson, Szeman, I. |
| Prototypes for Possible Worlds ExhibitionThe first Speculative Energy Futures proto-exhibition featuring works that imagine or predict possible climate and energy futures, focusing on social justice and community well-being.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-12-10 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N. |
| City of Edmonton and the Change for Climate Program: In Conversation with Andrea SolerAndrea Soler, Senior Community Strategist for the City of Edmonton's Energy Transition Unit, on consumerism culture and gendered reactions to climate change. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| City of Edmonton Energy, Transition and Leadership: In Conversation with Mike MellrossMike Mellross, General Supervisor of Energy Transition and Utility Supply Management for the City of Edmonton, on the City's climate change initiatives and Edmonton's possible energy and climate change futures. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| City of Edmonton Residential Energy Efficiency and Sharing Economies: In Conversation with Robyn WebbRobyn Webb, Senior Environmental Project Manager at the City of Edmonton, discusses transit-oriented and sustainable urban development. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| Cultures of Energy: The Energy Humanities Podcast - Natalie Loveless University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-07-04 | Loveless, N. |
| Cultures of Energy: The Energy Humanities Podcast - Sheena Wilson University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-08-08 | Wilson, S. |
| Historical Capitalism, Oikos and the Ecological Crisis: In Conversation with Jason MooreJason Moore, Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University and author of Capitalism in the Web of Life, on capitalism, cheap nature, and the economy over the last few centuries. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| Idle No More, Indigenous Law and Trudeau's Indigenous Framework: In Conversation with Janice MakokisJanice Makokis of Saddle Lake Cree Nation, an advisor and policy analyst working with Onion Lake Cree Nation, and an organizer with Idle No More, speaks about the federal government's Indigenous Rights Framework, decolonization, treaty rights and relationships, and women's roles in First Nations laws and legal orders. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| iDoc, Energy Commons and the Role of Social Movements: In Conversation with Sourayan MookerjeaSourayan Mookerjea, Director of the Intermedia Research Studio and Co-Investigator on iDoc and Feminist Energy Futures, discusses his research on commoning, molecular media, and his feminist renewable energy transition role playing game, Perfect Storm! University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| Indigenous Action on Climate: In Conversation with Eriel Tchekwie DerangerEriel Tchekwie Deranger, member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and the Director and Co-founder of Indigenous Climate Action, discusses Healing Walks, the economy, and decolonization. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| Indigenous Governance, Resource Extraction and Stewardship: In Conversation with Josie AugerJosie Auger, member of and a councillor for Bigstone Cree First Nation, on the importance of the land in the Nehiyawak belief system, colonization, treaties, water, and both present and future relationships with extractive energy industries. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| Indigenous Lives and Livelihoods near the Alberta Tar/Oilsands: In Conversation with Angele AlookAngele Alook, researcher for Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, Indigenous sociologist/collaborator with Just Powers, and a member of Bigstone Cree Nation, discusses Indigenous womanhood, colonization, feminism, and Bigstone Cree Nation's relationships with energy industries. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| Intergenerational Knowledge, Residential Schools and Healing: In Conversation with Elder Verna Orr Elder Verna Orr from Bigstone Cree Nation discusses her role as a Cultural Advisor at NAIT and how she shares land teachings with her grandchildren. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| On Alberta Climate Dialogues (ABCD): In Conversation with David KahaneDavid Kahane, political science professor and the former Project Director of Alberta Climate Dialogue, discusses the development and learnings of the ABCD project. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| On Future Energy Systems and the role of FES in the Future: In Conversation with Larry KostiukLarry Kostiuk, the Director of Future Energy Systems, on the creation of FES and his thoughts on the future landscape of energy. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| On Intergenerational Knowledge and Living off the Land on Bigstone Cree Nation: In Conversation with Elder Eliza OrrElder Eliza Orr from Bigstone Cree Nation discusses living off the land and shares her experiences with energy industries. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| On the Role of Edmonton Municipal Government in Energy Transition: In Conversation with Andrea LinskyAndrea Linsky, Senior Environmental Project Manager at the City of Edmonton, discusses her position, energy in Alberta, women's contributions to energy conversations, and energy resilient University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| Political Ecology, Activism, and the Petrostate: In Conversation with Laurie AdkiniDoc is an intermedia documentary project tracking energy-transition research, discussions, and developments in Alberta, Canada, and beyond. In a series of over 100 interviews with scholars, policy makers, activists, and community members, iDoc records, archives and shares critical conversations about current and future energy systems.
University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-06-30 | Wilson, S. |
| The Scope of Just Powers: iDoc, Speculative Energy Futures and More: In Conversation with Sheena WIlsonSheena Wilson, Just Powers Principal Investigator, English and Cultural Studies professor at the University of Alberta's Campus Saint-Jean, and Co-founder of the Petrocultures Research Group, discusses the various projects under the Just Powers banner, women's participation in energy transition initiatives, and decolonization. University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-04-25 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| Traplines and Resisting the Impacts of Oil and Forestry Industries on Bigstone Cree Nation: In Conversation with Elder Albert YellowkneeElder Albert Yellowknee from Bigstone Cree Nation discusses his experience with logging around his family's traplines and the impact of logging on human and non-human animals. University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| Treaty Rights, Traplines and Resisting Oil and Gas on Bigstone Cree Nation: In Conversation with Cindy NoskiyeCindy Noskiye, member of Bigstone Cree Nation and Environment Officer for the Bigstone Lands Office, on the impact of industry on land rights and land use. University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-06-30 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| Power LinesExhibition for 2020 Alberta Biennale. | Activity | 2020-09-26 | "Sean Caulfield" |
| Energy Emergency Repair KitResearch-creation art-book University of Alberta | Publication | 2022-04-23 | Simpson, M., Jessie Beier, "Joan Greer", "Tsema Igharas", Mookerjea, S., "tegan moore", "lisa moore", "catlin kelly-kuzyk", "jerome tave", "kyle lawson" |
| Mutation and Care in the Anthropocene University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-09-27 | Loveless, N. |
| Deep Energy Literacy University of Alberta | IP Management | 2017-09-01 | Wilson, S. |
| Feminist Solarities University of Alberta, University of Waterloo | IP Management | 2019-01-02 | Wilson, S., Simpson, M., Szeman, I., "Darin Barney" |
| Oil Loyal University of Alberta | IP Management | 2017-09-01 | Wilson, S. |
| Petrofeminism University of Alberta | IP Management | 2017-09-01 | Wilson, S. |
| Solarities University of Alberta, University of Waterloo | IP Management | 2019-01-02 | Wilson, S., Simpson, M., Szeman, I., "Darin Barney" |
| Visualizing Nature in Art, Design, and Visual Culture in the Long 19th Century HADVC 455 B1 (*3): Visualizing Nature in Art, Design, and Visual Culture in the Long 19th Century
Winter Term, M 14:00-16:50
Instructor: Joan Greer | Activity | 2021-01-06 | "Joan Greer" |
| Aesthetic Attunement in an Age of UrgencyUniversity-Wide Lecture, University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-01-28 | Loveless, N. |
| Aesthetic Attunement in an Age of Urgency Invited University-Wide Lecture (part 2 of a “distinguished visitor” lecture series hosted by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture) University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-11-28 | Loveless, N. |
| ARCTIC MAKES II: Observations, Lessons and Solutions from the Geographic Periphery Group exhibition online (ongoing).
Two prints exhibited by Ruth Beer:
"Tuktoyaktuk + Water / Arkhangelsk + Oil" (diptych), photograph reprocessed by A.I, inkjet print, 2021, 40”x30” (each photograph).
and
"Tuktoyaktuk, Oil + Water," photograph reprocessed by A.I, inkjet print, 2021, 40”x30”
| Activity | 2021-06-15 | "Ruth Beer" |
| ARCTIC MAKES: Observations, Lessons And Solutions From The Geographic PeripheryOfficial exhibition URL broken. Alternative URL: https://julieforgues.ca/arctic-makes
Virtual group exhibition (ongoing). | Activity | 2020-04-30 | "Ruth Beer" |
| Art, Ecology, and ResilienceUniversity-Wide Lecture University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-02-04 | Loveless, N. |
| Art, Ecology, and the Politics of FormPart 1 of a “distinguished visitor” lecture series hosted by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-11-07 | Loveless, N. |
| Bituminous PartingsGroup exhibition from December 14, 2021 - January 7, 2022.
Bitumen: a generic term for an inflammable hydrocarbon such as petroleum or asphalt.
Parting: in geology, a thin layer of rock between two different strata in the Earth’s surface.
A separation between two geological strata, bituminous partings are a compression of life force parsing the temporal layers of the earth. Rendered by the pressure of passing centuries and accumulated history, a seam mere metres thick marks divisions between eras.
This print exchange is an opportunity to connect artists from around North America whose work encompasses concerns within the ecological/industrial/developmental fields. | Activity | 2021-12-14 | "Luke Johnson", "Sean Caulfield" |
| Black GoldSolo art exhibition from January 22 to April 16, 2021.
| Activity | 2021-01-22 | "Tsēmā Igharas" |
| Book Launch: How to Make Art at the End of the World + Animate LiteraciesGlass Bookshop and Latitude 53 celebrated the launch of Natalie Loveless's HOW TO MAKE ART AT THE END OF THE WORLD: A MANIFESTO FOR RESEARCH CREATION (Duke UP) and Nathan Snaza'a ANIMATE LITERACIES (Duke UP).
University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-10-10 | Loveless, N. |
| Book Launch: Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-02-05 | Loveless, N. |
| borderLINE: 2020 Biennial of Contemporary ArtGroup exhibition Sept 26, 2020 - Jan 3, 2021. | Activity | 2020-09-26 | "Sean Caulfield" |
| BundleAn interactive installation for "Unpacking Energy Transition (FluxKit Beta Tests)" at SQUARE, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (November 7-11, 2022).
Bundle incorporates several different components folded into a literal “bundle” of knowledge: Indigenous oral storytelling teachings; a poetic zine that combines intersectional feminist and Indigenous ways of knowing and world-views, alongside Indigenous prophecies; cedar and tobacco, which are used in Indigenous teaching and ceremony; a birch-bark print; and other visually impactful images connected to place and Indigenous prophecy.
At SQUARE, we bring Bundle as both a portable folded canvas parcel, as it will circulate in the final FluxKit, and as a large hanging canvas interactive banner with pockets that contain the collection of the above-mentioned components. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | Wilson, S., "Janice Makokis", "Kurtis McAdam", "Ruth Beer", "Patrick Mahon", "Barbara Mahon", "Shrmistha Kar", "Pat Makokis" |
| Carbon Catching Library | Activity | 2019-12-10 | "Soheila Esfahani", "Satoshi Ikeda", "Luke Johnson" |
| Carbon Catching LibraryThe Carbon Catching Library was conceived as an invitation to investigate knowledge about local plants, plant-based carbon catching, propagation, and interspecies care. The intent of the Carbon Catching Library deepens our capacities for plant, soil, and pollinator literacy, which are vital components in our path toward ecological and environmental harmony.
For the FluxKit, Carbon Catching Library takes the form of a set of twelve zines by emerging artists. These zines think through the role of plants and the role of knowledge sharing about plants, in a time when we all understand that we need to be living in better relation with the flora and fauna that have, for too long, simply been taken for granted as resources. Instead, we need to get to know them as verdant kin, and appreciate them for all their gifts, including their carbon-catching capacity as we transition away from extractive energy systems.
At SQUARE, visitors are encouraged to take instruction from the Carbon Catching Library of zines and to start growing their own knowledge and plant-based Carbon Catching Libraries at home, in the workplace, or in any public space available.
Collaborating student artists: Ioana Dragomir, Mélika Hashemi, Rebecca Lai, Amy Leigh, Alissa Rossi, Sumaira Tazeen. | Activity | 2022-11-07 | "Satoshi Ikeda", "Luke Johnson", "Soheila Esfahani" |
| Climate Change Theatre Action: A Panel Discussion and Play ReadingA public reading and performance of short climate change plays presented biennially to coincide with the United Nations COP meetings. This event was organized by Selena Couture and Stefano Muneroni at the University of Alberta. University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-11-05 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S. |
| Commons and Climate JusticeSOC502 Special Topics: Commons and Climate Justice
Winter 2022: January 5 - April 8, 2022
T 09:00 - 11:50 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-01-05 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Convergences University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-12-10 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N., "Janice Makokis", "Patrick Mahon", "Ruth Beer", "Clarence Whitestone", "Diana Steinhauer", "Sergio Serrano", "Kurtis McAdam" |
| Earth FortunesEarth Fortunes is a playful journey to explore some of the ways energy systems can affect our lives. You might be excited, worried, or unsure about future energy systems.
In the FluxKit, this will take the form of a mini divination station modeled on the 5 Shared Socioeconomic Pathways or SSPs.
For SQUARE, the cards were available to explore throughout the space. | Activity | 2022-11-07 | "Caitlin Fisher", "Steven Hoffman" |
| Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.)The Energy Emergency Repair Kit (EERK) is a speculative emergency kit that takes the form of a binder with emergency instructions and two cassette tapes with important information for survival, written from the perspective of a future apocalypse. The joke is that while the first cassette tape is available, should such old technology be found somewhere, explaining the apocalyptic situation, the second cassette tape with all of the answers has been taken over by mycelium and cannot be played. The moral: no one has the answers and we must all speculate and explore together, thinking in yet unthought directions, if there is any hope of collective survival.
At SQUARE, two members of the EERK team will activate and generate discussion surrounding prompts in the Kit. These will include: Nuclear Waste Safe Storage Protocol; Signalling the Energy Emergency, Ecological Debt Recovery Procedure; and the "Fungal-mentals" of Mycelial Energetics. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | Mookerjea, S., "Tsema Igharas", "Joan Greer", Jessie Beier, "Teegan Moore", Simpson, M. |
| Energy Transition: Pathways to Climate JusticeFrom 7-18 November 2022 Contextual Studies welcomed sixteen members of the Speculative Energy Futures (SEF) team to the University of St. Gallen as SQUARE’s inaugural artists-in-residence (three members were virtual, the remainder were in-person). Visiting Professor and SEF Principal Investigator Dr. Sheena Wilson led a two-week intensive course titled “Energy Transition: Pathways to Climate Justice,” taught with project co-lead Dr. Natalie Loveless and featuring lectures, seminar discussions, workshops, and guest-presentations by thirteen SEF team members. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N., Kohleal, J., "Ruth Beer", "Patrick Mahon", Mookerjea, S., "Janice Makokis", "Kurtis McAdam", "Tsema Igharas", "Caitlin Fisher", "Evan Davies", "Sean Caulfield", "Soheila Esfahani", "Lisa Moore", "Scott Smallwood" |
| Flaring Site (print from A Planet for for Sale) will be exhibited in Print Out Times, 2021, Taoyuan International Print Exhibition, Taoyuan Art Center, May 27 - June 20th , 2021.
| Activity | 2021-05-21 | "Sean Caulfield" |
| Forest Voicesan interactive audio game. exhibited as part of exhibition curated by Natalie Loveless., April. 22, 2018
| Activity | 2018-04-22 | "Scott Smallwood" |
| Garden of Future Delights: Paintings and Augmentations in Process University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-12-10 | "Caitlin Fisher", Davies, E., "Wallace Edwards" |
| GardenShip and State: Art, Environment, and the Future of the Global CommonsExhibition co-curated with Jeff Thomas. Exhibition dates: October 7, 2021 to January 23, 2022.
| Activity | 2021-10-07 | "Patrick Mahon" |
| Guest Lecture for Climate Futures and the Just Transition Class University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-11-28 | Wilson, S. |
| Hiding in Plain SightVirtual exhibition ongoing.
The Embassy Cultural House is pleased to present its inaugural virtual group exhibition: Hiding in Plain Sight organized by Ron Benner. The exhibition focuses on the themes in the book "Hiding in Plain Sight" published in 2020 by St. Louis-based journalist Sarah Kendzior.
| Activity | 2020-10-30 | "Patrick Mahon" |
| How Oil Creates Who We Are: A Panel Response to VISCOSITYMembers of SEF/iDoc participated in a panel following a special edition of the theatre installation VISCOSITY with Theatre Yes. University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-11-13 | Simpson, M., Jordan Kinder, Angele Alook, Adam Carlson |
| How to Make Art at the End of the WorldUniversity-Wide Lecture University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-11-14 | Loveless, N. |
| Hughadēsłēł — give it all awaySolo Exhibition, SFU Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada 2022. This exhibition featuring new work by artist Tsema Igharas is concerned with land, embodiment, sustainability, and industrial extraction. Her preparation for this project ranged from harvesting and processing berries, teas, and salmon in her home Tāłtān territory to the development of sculpture with materials connected to mine sites.
| Activity | 2022-09-24 | "Tsema Igharas" |
| InterWoven LandscapeGroup exhibition from November 10, 2021 - ongoing. | Activity | 2021-11-10 | "Ruth Beer" |
| Introduction to GlobalizationSOC 269: Introduction to Globalization
Fall 2021 term: September 1 - December 7, 2021
MW 14:00 - 15:20 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-09-01 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Inverse Insulations in a Seed Time Poem Cycle"Inverse Insulations in a Seed Time Poem Cycle," Digital Video, 8 minutes, 2020. Displayed in the online exhibition , organized by The Embassy Cultural House and GardenShip and State.
University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-04-22 | Mookerjea, S., "Tegan Moore", "Joan Greer" |
| LASERAlberta: Art, Climate, Energy, ActivismThis LASERAlberta panel involved the three researchers speaking on Just Powers, a research project addressing the impact and importance of de-colonial feminist theory and practice for thinking through alternatives to petrocapitalism, and discussing Speculative Energy Futures, a sub-project of Just Powers that brings together a carefully chosen group of artistic and humanities researchers with science, social science and policy experts to investigate the challenges of energy transition University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-02-28 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N., Mookerjea, S., "Joan Greer" |
| Listening as Ethic; Walking as Method: Daily Practice and Art/Life InterventionInvited University-Wide Lecture (part 3 of a “distinguished visitor” lecture series hosted by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture). University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-01-16 | Loveless, N. |
| Made with the Arctic | Activity | 2022-04-26 | "Ruth Beer" |
| Messagers’ Forumart exhibition (catalogue forthcoming)
| Activity | 2020-09-16 | "Patrick Mahon" |
| Mutation and Care in the AnthropoceneUniversity-Wide Lecture University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-09-27 | Loveless, N. |
| Nesting for the End of the Worlda group exhibition including a large installation by Cindy Baker and Ruth Cuthand, with 4-channel generative audio soundscape by Smallwood. | Activity | 2020-01-25 | "Scott Smallwood" |
| On the Politics of Form: Art and/in the Anthropocene University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-01-09 | Loveless, N. |
| Paramancy: Volume 1 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-12-10 | Jessie Beier, Simpson, M., "Tsēmā Igahara" |
| Pathways to Modernity: Sculpture from Emily Carr University of Art and Design AlumnaeExhibition run: July 8 - September 10, 2021
| Activity | 2021-07-08 | "Ruth Beer" |
| PerfectStorm! Feminist Renewable Energy Transition RPGPerfect Storm: Feminist Energy Transition is an interactive, role-playing game that enables players to explore the cultural and class politics of energy transition in Canada.
In small groups, Perfect Storm players assume roles and respond to dynamic game situations, trying to prevent a perfect storm of catastrophic climate change by shifting Alberta to renewable energy.
This was a special facilitation of the game for Speculative Energy Futures. University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-06-03 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Planet for Sale | Activity | 2019-12-10 | "Sean Caulfield", "Steven Hoffman", "Caitlin Fisher", "Sue Colberg" |
| Planet for SalePlanet for Sale is a speculative book featuring lino and woodblock prints alongside poems and text focusing on “the tragedy of the commons.” The book imagines a literal planet for sale, in which our shared, or ‘common’, resources are depleted and destroyed by people acting in their own self-interest. The book’s narrator specifically points to a ‘choice’ that was given to and made by people living at a certain time, whose actions and inactions created monstrous outgrowths and scenes of environmental destruction that, while fictional, are perhaps not dissimilar to what many people are experiencing today as the climate crisis worsens.
At SQUARE, the Planet for Sale book has been deconstructed and enlarged into a photo and text-based installation, with select text written by Steven Hoffman. Virtual and Augmented Reality artist Caitlin Fisher created accompanying AR/VR experiences in the space. Particular emphasis is given to the last section of the book, which illustrates the Nobel Prize-winning work of economist Elinor Ostrom’s eight points addressing how individuals may avoid the ‘tragedy of the commons’ by acting in the common good of all people when managing resources.
The final book design was been done by Sue Colberg. | Activity | 2022-11-07 | "Sean Caulfield", "Steven Hoffman", "Caitlin Fisher", "Sue Colberg" |
| Print Out of TimesThis Taoyuan International Printmaking Exhibition invites outstanding printmaking works from 13 countries, including the United States, Canada, Russia, Australia, Bangladesh, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, India, etc., as well as domestic printmakers of different generations. exchange, re-sampling to examine how we view the meaning of time and space at the moment, how to respond to and re-interpret the current appearance and situation of the epidemic, which is full of all kinds of strange and ever-changing epidemics.
| Activity | 2022-04-08 | "Sean Caulfield" |
| Pro-TO-type(s)art exhibition. June - July, 2021. Selected pages from artist's book, Sean Caulfield, Sue Colberg, Caitlin Fischer, Steven Hoffman
| Activity | 2021-04-08 | "Sean Caulfield" |
| Prototypes for Possible Worlds ExhibitionExhibition ran from December 10, 2019 - January 11, 2020. University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-12-10 | "Ruth Beer", Jessie Beier, "Sean Caulfield", "Evan Davies", "Wallace Edwards", "Soheila Esfahani", "Caitlin Fisher", "Joan Greer", "Steven Hoffman", "Tsēmā Igharas", "Satoshi Ikeda", "Luke Johnson", Loveless, N., "Patrick Mahon", "Janice Makokis", "Kurtis MacAdam", "Lisa Moore", "Tegan Moore", Mookerjea, S., Simpson, M., "Scott Smallwood", "Rachel Snow", "Diana Steinheuer", "Clarence Whitestone", Wilson, S. |
| Research-Creation and Institutional FormResearch Seminar Series at Monash University, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance.
Abstract: An intervention into normative scholarly practice, research-creation (a sister term to practice-led and/or artistic research) has gained increasing visibility and validity over the past decade within the North American academy. Grounded in artistic means and methods, research-creation invites us to attend to the methods we mobilize as well as our modes of output and publication at the level of constitutive form. This research seminar will return to some of the key provocations laid out in Loveless' 2019 book How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation, and opens onto questions of how and why it is important to champion research-creation attuned to social and ecological justice within our university spaces today.
University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-03-30 | Loveless, N. |
| Research-Creation, Sound Studies, & Music PedagogyThis three-day event includes performances, panels, and public talks by artists and researchers from across disciplines and geographic locations. Panels included: investigating the role of research-creation for social and ecological justice research within university spaces; Grad students Petcha Kucha; exploring the role of research-creation as a methodological and dissemination tool in times of pressing global crises; a panel bringing together performance-based artistic researchers and scholars to discuss their work, and the works of others, in the public sphere(s); discussing the way that the pandemic has affected research-creation practices in design; discussing the role of music pedagogy in Research-Creation practices, both inside and outside of academia; and performances by lo bil, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Nicola Fornoni, Carron Little, and Dimple B Shah.
| Activity | 2021-10-22 | Jessie Beier, "Scott Smallwood", "Emily Doolittle", Catlin W Kuzyk, Shima Robinson Robinson Shima |
| Resisting Petrofeminisms: Toward More Just Feminist Futures University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-02-18 | Wilson, S. |
| Rhys Williams Talk, Generic Energetic: Contemporary Popular Genres as Tools for Transition University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-04-06 | Wilson, S., Mookerjea, S., MaryElizabeth Luka |
| Rural: Works Exploring the CountrysideGroup Exhibition from January 21 - February 18, 2022. Caulfield exhibited prints from the Planet for Sale and Stories of Division projects.
Living in the “countryside” is often framed, maybe romanticized, as a lifestyle more in touch with the land, historically because the settlements around it are supported by its cultivation. (How have the economics of rural living changed?) People here live more distantly, and accordingly develop different kinds of family and networks to relate. Distance creates new customs—conventionally a sense of independence and self-reliance. (What do we rely on rural communities for? What do rural communities rely on?) The landscape is a little more uninhabited, but it is still well-mapped and divided. What does a rural home look like? A rural school? A rural place of worship? A rural life? A rural philosophy?
Where does 'rural' begin and end? | Activity | 2022-01-21 | "Sean Caulfield" |
| Scores for Energy TransitionPresented as part of "Unpacking Energy Transition (FluxKit Beta Tests)" at SQUARE, University of St. Gallen (November 7 - 11, 2022).
Scores for Energy Transition is a dice-and-card-based dialogic game that invites players to consider the kinds of energy we rely on every day, and how we might rethink our relationships between energy and our basic needs. Inspired in part by the event scores of Fluxus artists Yoko Ono and George Brecht, Scores for Energy Transition can be played as a turn-based game, encouraging activities including personal research, artistic expression, debates, and conversation; or they can function as prompts for solo contemplation.
At SQUARE, prototype sets of Scores for Energy Transition will be available for initiating conversations, speculations, and debates about energy reliance and transition, as well as identifying the holes in our knowledge and the limits of our imaginations!
University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | Loveless, N., "Scott Smallwood" |
| Screening Climate Change: Knowledge Mobilization Through Popular MediaGuest Lecture for Contextual Studies, School of the Humanities at the University of St. Gallen. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-04-28 | Wilson, S. |
| Seed Time: Sister Plantings for Regenerative Futures"Speculative Energy Futures: Prototypes for Possible Worlds" was a research-creation exhibition that showcased some of the initial explorations from the first year of a collaborative, interdisciplinary, multi-year project that brings together artists, designers, activists, engineers, policy makers, scientists, humanists, social scientists, Indigenous legal experts and more, to inquire into the complex intersections of climate change and energy transition as interlocking sites of possibility as we imagine/model a range of potential low-carbon just futures.
The "Seed Time: Sister Plantings for Regenerative Futures" research-creation project probes the slow speeds and infrastructural properties of Earth-bound seeds for political models of: (i) negentropic renewable energy; (ii) feminist conviviality and solidarity; (iii) regenerative gift and care economies; and (iv) zineseed-like molecular media for DIY serial reproducibility and learning-by-making. Seed time is composed of memory-storage, dispersal, pryiscence, imbibition, respiration, light, mobilization, sprouting, growth, and regeneration through which negentropic common-being creates a place for Earth-bound lifetimes, giving wisdom, taking care and creating common wealth. Past, present and future non-extractivist seed-communication points towards deep energy transitions to slow futures. The possibility for delinking from the toxic waste economy may be searched for by engaging with "seed Time."
University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-12-10 | "Joan Greer", Mookerjea, S., "Tegan Moore" |
| Seed Time²Presented as part of the exhibition "Unpacking Energy Transition (FluxKit Beta Tests)" at SQUARE, University of ST. Gallen, Switzerland (November 7-11, 2022).
Seed Time² is a real and virtual “printing press” organized as a feminist media cooperative. It utilizes DIY (Do-It-Yourself) and avant-garde art methodologies, such as those associated with Fluxus (which emphasizes the process of artistic creation over the finished product), to disseminate decolonial strategies related to renewable energy transition. Seed Time² helps us imagine how we might dismantle oppressive institutions and practices, de-grow toxic, unjust economies and systems, and regenerate ecologies by placing feminist practices, values, and labours of care at the centre of our communities, economies, and societies.
At SQUARE, Seed Time² is activated through metaphoric and actual components related to seeds and their renewable energy: planting, pollination, germination, tending/nurturing, harvesting, gentle consumption, and composting for de-growing carbon and energy intensive food systems and agriculture, among other things. Cards distributed throughout SQUARE are meant to be taken away by visitors and include poems and seed motifs to generate discussion and thinking around carbon capture, regenerating biodiversity, intervening in the politics of land grabbing for mega-energy developments, and promoting feminist education, solidarity, and conviviality. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | Mookerjea, S., "Joan Greer", "Tegan Moore" |
| Sensing the Anthropocene: Daily Practice and Art/Life Intervention University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-01-07 | Loveless, N. |
| Shifting Ground: Mapping Project | Activity | 2022-02-10 | "Ruth Beer" |
| SMART START Workshop University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-02-18 | Wilson, S., Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Special Topics: Commons and Climate JusticeSOC402 Special Topics: Commons and Climate Justice
Winter 2022: January 5 - April 8, 2022
T 09:00 - 11:50 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-01-05 | Mookerjea, S. |
| The History and Theory of Sustainable DesignHADVC 309 A1 (*3) Sustainable Design
Fall Term, T R 12:30-13:50
Instructor: Joan Greer | Activity | 2021-09-01 | "Joan Greer" |
| The Lost Garden | Activity | 2019-12-10 | "Scott Smallwood", Audio Games Lab, "Sean Caulfield", "Peter Rockwell", "Stephan Moore", "Chenoa Anderson", "Joel Taylor" |
| The Lost GardenThe Lost Garden is a first-person audio puzzle game that features sonic exploration in an abandoned underground urban environment. As a stranger here, the player explores the soundscape of a world cut off from nature, perhaps a future us, by interacting with sonic puzzles that open doors to new areas, and, ultimately, the lost garden. Through listening and interacting with sounds, players are encouraged to consider the fragile nature of our natural soundscapes, and to speculate on what the story might be for the abandoned game world. As puzzles are solved, clues are revealed, and doors to new areas are opened, ultimately leading the perceptive player outdoors, to the lost (last?) garden.
Contributions by Sean Caulfield, Peter Rockwell, Nicolás Arnáez, Jessa Gillespie, Stephan Moore, Chenoa Anderson, and the Audio Games Lab. | Activity | 2022-11-07 | "Scott Smallwood" |
| This Can't Wait: Billboards For Energy TransitionAn interactive installation for "Unpacking Energy Transition (FluxKit Beta Tests)" at SQUARE, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (November 7-11, 2022).
This Can’t Wait: Billboards For Energy Transition arose from the question: how can we use printmaking to incite social change? The project takes the 2018 IPCC report as its starting point, which declared that we have 9 years to halve our carbon usage to maintain 1.5 degrees of global warming. Billboard-sized ‘banners’ designed by emerging and established artists and designers subvert the language of advertising and re-conceptualize how we talk about climate action and energy transition within public spaces.
At SQUARE, three banners from This Can’t Wait are presented in the space, and nine are available in AR format, available via QR code, allowing you to superimpose our banners, created by the team in response to local conditions in Canada, to your home as a prompt to consider the ways in which you might engage with your local policy makers on matters of energy transition and climate action. University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | Wilson, S., "Ruth Beer", "Sean Caulfield", "Caitlin Fisher", "Patrick Mahon", "Thomas Mahon", "Janice Makokis" |
| Unpacking Energy Transition (FluxKit Beta Tests)From 7-18 November 2022 Contextual Studies welcomed sixteen members of the Speculative Energy Futures (SEF) team to the University of St. Gallen as SQUARE’s inaugural artists-in-residence (three members were virtual, the remainder were in-person). Visiting Professor and SEF Principal Investigator Dr. Sheena Wilson led a two-week intensive course titled “Energy Transition: Pathways to Climate Justice,” taught with project co-lead Dr. Natalie Loveless and featuring lectures, seminar discussions, workshops, and guest-presentations by thirteen SEF team members.
During the two-week course and residency at SQUARE, SEF animated an interactive pop-up exhibition "Unpacking Energy Transition (SEF’s FluxKit Beta Tests)." Presented throughout SQUARE’s atrium, "Unpacking Energy Transition" provided students, faculty, and community members with an opportunity to engage with the FluxKit, a ‘toolbox’ developed through SEF’s collaborative process that is intended to inspire participants to think differently about energy transition.
University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N., Kohleal, J. |
| We Were In It: Very Short Stories About EnergyAn interactive installation for "Unpacking Energy Transition (FluxKit Beta Tests)" at SQUARE, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (November 7-11, 2022).
We Were In It: Very Short Stories About Energy is a 180-page book of creative fiction written by Speculative Energy Futures team members during a series of writing workshops hosted by award-winning Canadian novelist and SEF team member Lisa Moore. Following writing prompts that supported non-fiction writers in finding new voices to explore anxieties, hopes, and fears surrounding energy transition, 14 members of the team came together to write 43 speculative stories about energy and energy transition, these were then illustrated by the artist Kamei Lim. The book ends with 4 prompts to inspire you to share your stories.
University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | Wilson, S., "Lisa Moore", "Ruth Beer", Mookerjea, S., "Soheila Esfahani", "Satoshi Ikeda", "Evan Davies", "Caitlin Fisher", "Luke Johnson", Loveless, N., "Kurtis McAdam", "Janice Makokis", "Patrick Mahon", "Scott Smallwood" |
| Where the Bull DozesIn Pauline Oliveros’s Some Sound Observations, she tells a story about a bulldozer crashing into her home while she is eating lunch. Later, she wonders about "the sound of a bull dozing." While my piece does not include that sound, it does contain many field recordings collected in Wood Buffalo National Park in the northern boreal forest of Alberta, Canada, which is one of the last places on Earth where wild bison roam, along with many other endangered mammals and birds. Although today it is a national park, Indigenous people inhabited the region for more than 8000 years, and today it also supports Cree, Chipewyan, Metis and non-indigenous communities. Its park status protects it in many ways, yet its waters are under constant threat from the bulldozers and other machinery of Canadian oil sands mining operations. This piece is dedicated to Pauline, who reminded us that "natural sound is healing sound."
At SQUARE, Where the Bull Dozes was presented as an immersive audio experience. | Activity | 2022-11-07 | "Scott Smallwood" |
| Written on the EarthGroup exhibition from March 4 - April 17, 2021.
Written on the Earth is an interdisciplinary exhibition with its catalyst in an invitation to a group of artists from the Northern Tornadoes Project, a research team at Western Engineering. Committed to charting the increasingly important evidence of tornadoes throughout Canada, the Northern Tornadoes Project involves data collection and analysis directed towards myriad objectives. The invitation presents the opportunity for these artists to respond to data arising from a specific area of environmental research and to consider how they can contribute to interdisciplinary engagements with pressing contemporary issues, particularly related to the environment, global warming, human/non-human ecologies, and indigenous views on land and stewardship.
| Activity | 2021-03-04 | "Patrick Mahon" |
| Accumulated Violence, or, the Wars of Exploitation: Notes toward a post- Western Marxism University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-09-01 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Attunement in the Cracks: Feminist Collaboration and the University as Broken MachineIn Time, Urgency, and Collaboration in the Corporate University. Special Issue of the journal Feminist Formations.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2022-04-08 | Loveless, N., "Carrie Smith" |
| Land Reclamation History interactive sound composition.
experimental online journal - page no.,issue no., vol., etc. n/a
| Publication | 2021-04-08 | "Scott Smallwood" |
| Listening in the AnthropoceneSounds of the Anthropocene, special issue of Sensate Journal.
Interactive sound composition in experimental online journal.
Page numbers, issue, vol, etc. n/a
University of Alberta | Publication | 2021-04-08 | Loveless, N., "Carrie Smith" |
| Renewable energy transition under multiple colonialisms: Passive revolution, fascism redux and utopian praxes University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-03-17 | Mookerjea, S. |
| Solarities or Solarculture: Bright or Bleak Energy Futures and the E.L. Smith Solar Farm. University of Alberta | Publication | 2021-01-01 | Wilson, S. |
| (Re)framing Big Data—S2E1For our first episode in Series II, we are excited to share a Read & Record of the 2018 article “(Re)framing Big Data: Activating Situated Knowledges and a Feminist Ethics of Care in Social Media Research” by Dr. Mary Elizabeth Luka & Dr. Mélanie Millette.
In this article, the authors seek to problematize assumptions and trends in “big data” digital methods and research through an intersectional feminist lens. Articulating their critique through a feminist ethics of care, the article poses a number of practical questions about practices of care in social media research, pointing toward future research directions.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-05 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Against Purity—S1E2This episode features a ‘Read + Record’ of the introductory chapter to Alexis Shotwell’s 2016 book “Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times”. In Against Purity, Alexis Shotwell proposes a powerful new conception of social movements as custodians for the past and incubators for liberated futures. Against Purity undertakes an analysis that draws on theories of race, disability, gender, and animal ethics as a foundation for an innovative approach to the politics and ethics of responding to systemic problems today.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-08-13 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Amateur Video & The Challenge for Change — S2E2In this episode we will be reading “Amateur video and the challenge for change” by Dr. Janine Marchessault. This text is included in the collection “Challenge for Change”, edited by Thomas Waugh, Michael Brenda Baker & Ezra Winton and published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2016.
The collection offers an examination of the radical politics and cinema of the legendary documentary film program — Challenge for Change/Société nouvelle — which ran from 1967 to 1980 and produced films in both French and English, challenging audiences, subjects, and filmmakers to confront sexism, poverty, and marginalization in the hope of developing community as well as political awareness and empowerment. Here, Dr. Marchessault returns to an essay she wrote in the early 1990s, in order to offer a critical perspective on one aspect of Challenge for Change, namely, the way the program underplayed structures of power by emphasizing the immediate and seemingly unmediated nature of communication forms that were being animated by the NFB filmmakers involved in the project at the time.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-05 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Chainsaw: Theory and Practice—S2E5This Read & Record episode features a performative readings of the zine “Chainsaw: Theory and Practice” by Catherine Lavoie-Marcus in complicity with non-disciplinary artist Johanna Householder.
Originally published in 2017 as part of the Viva! Art Action Festival in Montreal and inspired by Householder’s performance work, the zine presents a conversation on the counter-usage of the chainsaw as an undetermined method for slicing the master’s home, bad habits, bullshit, the historical framework, pride, and ‘the real’. This reading is performed by Kinuk, the artistic collaborative duo of Ursula Johnson and Angella Parsons.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-05 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Choreographies of Collaboration—S2E3This episode features a Read & Record of Liz Miller and Martin Allor’s 2016 essay “Choreographies of collaboration: Social engagement in interactive documentaries”, from Volume 10, Issue 1 of the journal ‘Studies in Documentary Film’ (Taylor & Francis).
In this text, the authors engage in a series of in-depth conversations with socially engaged Canadian directors, producers and distribution strategists, in order to analyze new opportunities for using interactive non-linear documentary in order to practice interventions towards social change. University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-05 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Disposition, in Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space — S3E6In this episode we read Chapter 2 from Keller Easterling’s 2014 book Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, published by Verso Books.
In this book, Easterling offers an understanding of infrastructure as the hidden substrate — or binding medium — through which standards and ideas are shared between bodies. For Easterling, then, the notion of infrastructure as Extrastatecraft refers to the ways in which contemporary infrastructure spaces are manipulated and controlled in order to exert power and orchestrate activities that can remain unstated but are nevertheless consequential to many.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-04-10 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Energy Imaginaries—S1E5In this episode we will be reading Sheena Wilson’s 2018 article titled “Energy Imaginaries: Feminist and Decolonial Futures,” which can be found in Materialism and the Critique of Energy, edited by Brent Ryan Bellamy and Jeff Diamanti.
Materialism and the Critique of Energy brings together twenty-one theorists working in a range of traditions to conceive of a twenty-first century materialism critical of the economic, political, cultural, and environmental impacts of large-scale energy development on collective life. In Wilson’s contribution, she outlines the current barriers to energy transition and the need to expand and deepen energy literacy in order to help us collaboratively imagine and collectively move toward socially just—decolonized and feminist—energy futures.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-08-13 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| In Catastrophic Times—S1E4This Read & Record episode features a selection of chapters from Isabelle Stengers’ 2015 book In catastrophic times: Resisting the coming barbarism. The book was translated from French to English by Andrew Goffey and published by Open Humanities Press in 2015.
In Catastrophic Times offers a welcome intervention into the current state of global political impasses and ecological catastrophe by outlining the cumulative impacts of global warming as a series of crises that will not “pass” before everything goes back to “normal.” As Stengers outlines through various examples—pollution, the poison of pesticides, the exhaustion of natural resources, falling water tables, growing social inequalities—the possibility of a global climate crisis is now upon us, in turn requiring new strategies and tactical experiments that are capable of seizing environmental issues and sociotechnical problems as political questions in order to resist the ‘coming barbarism’.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-08-13 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Indigenizing the Anthropocene—S1E1This Read & Record episode features Zoe Todd’s 2015 article “Indigenizing the Anthropocene”. This article is featured in Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environment and Epistemology, edited by Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin and published through Open Humanities Press in 2015.
In Todd’s article, she insists on an ethical relationality with Indigenous Peoples and philosophies as both a necessary starting point for processes of decolonization, and as a move away from the conditions that created the Anthropocene, including the notion of the Anthropocene itself.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-08-13 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Indigenous Women and Knowledge—S1E3In this episode we will be reading “Indigenous Women and Knowledge” by Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez & Nathalie Kermoal. This text is featured in Living on the Land. Indigenous Women’s Understanding of Place, also edited by Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez & Nathalie Kermoal and published through Athabasca University Press in 2016.
Living on the Land examines how patriarchy, gender, and colonialism have shaped the experiences of Indigenous women as both knowers and producers of knowledge. From a variety of methodological perspectives, contributors to the volume explore the nature and scope of Indigenous women’s knowledge, its rootedness in relationships both human and spiritual, and its inseparability from land and landscape.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-08-13 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Infrastructure, Infra-politics — S3E1For our first episode in Series III, we are excited to share an excerpt from Angela Mitropoulos’ 2012 book Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia titled “Infrastructure, Infra-politics.”
In this short excerpt, Mitropoulos positions infrastructure as an infra-political question of how affinities take shape, or not. Or as she puts it, “[i]nfrastructure is the answer given to the question of movement and relation”.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-04-10 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Infrastructures of Empire and Resistance — S3E2In this episode we read Deborah Cowen’s 2017 article “Infrastructures of Empire and Resistance”, which was published on January 25, 2017 on the Verso Books Blog.
In this article, Cowen explores the issue of infrastructure by focusing on how relations of power and of force rely on socio-technical systems, including infrastructural systems, which are themselves increasingly the object of struggle.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-04-10 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Materializing Climate Change—S2E6In this episode we will be reading Dr. Nicole Shukin’s 2015 article “Materializing Climate Change: Image of Exposure, States of Exception”.
This text is included in the edited collection Material Cultures in Canada, edited by Thomas Allen and Jennifier Blair, and published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2015. Material Cultures in Canada presents the vibrant and diverse field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political contexts today. This collection features sixteen essays by leading scholars in Canada, each of whom examines a different object of study, including the beaver, geraniums, comics, water, a musical playlist, and the human body. In Dr. Shukin’s contribution, she draws attention to photographic and filmic productions, or what she terms “cultural barometers”, that are designed to produce moving, material images of the historical crisis of climate change. University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-05 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Net-Zero Neighbours: The Blanchford ProjectIn this episode, recorded in early 2021, Sheena Wilson sits down with two project managers for Blatchford, a net-zero real estate development on the site of the old Edmonton City Centre Airport. The City had long slated the 200 hectare airfield for a world-class energy efficient community that will eventually be home to 30,000 residents.The Blatchford project broke ground in 2019 and is now welcoming its first cohort of residents. As of 2021, 100 people resided in Blatchford’s first 21 houses. Dr. Wilson speaks with Christian Felske of the City of Edmonton’s Renewable Energy Systems, and Tom Lumsden, City Development Manager, to talk about the challenges and hopes for this one-of-a-kind urban community. Does the build live up to the promise of the original conception?
University of Alberta | Publication | 2022-04-25 | Wilson, S. |
| Net-Zero Neighbours: The North Glenora ProjectIn this episode, guest-hosts Dr. Sara Dorow, professor of sociology (University of Alberta), and project research assistant Rezvaneh Erfani talk about Canada’s first ever net-zero multifamily social housing project. The North Glenora Sustainable Affordable Housing Project, led by Dr. Dorow and Dr. Arlene Oak, professor of human ecology (University of Alberta), began 8 years ago when the Westmount Presbyterian Church leased their land to the Right at Home Housing Society for a dollar. Now the church building and an adjoining complex of townhouses are home to 16 newcomer and refugee families. Listen as our guest-hosts talk with key players in this remarkable project that led a mature community through a transition to social sustainability, affordability, and net-zero development.
University of Alberta | Publication | 2022-04-25 | Wilson, S. |
| On Petrocultures: Or, Why We Need to Understand Oil to Understand Everything Else—S1E0For our first episode, we produced a Read & Record of the introduction to the recently published (2018) book Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, edited by Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson, and Imre Szeman.
Petrocultures provides much-needed research that addresses head-on the conceptual, philosophical, and theoretical challenges that emerge from a sustained examination of the social and cultural significance of energy in various forms—oil being only the most prevalent form at present. University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-08-13 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Adam Carlson, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Performing Sovereignty—S2E4In this episode we will be reading “Performing Sovereignty: Forces to be Reckoned With” by Dr. Carla Taunton.
This text is included in the edited collection More Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women, edited by Johanna Householder and Tanya Mars, and published by Artexte in 2016. More Caught in the Act includes 29 comprehensive profiles of artists from across Canada, along with five contextual essays that place current performance strategies by women within broader art historical and cultural contexts. In the text by Dr. Taunton, she provides a critical account of several performance art interventions by Indigenous artists to explore the ways in which Indigenous performance art is connected to customary practices of transmitting histories, knowledges and cosmologies. University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-05 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| The Deep Solarities: Charles Richmond — S3E2 University of Alberta | Publication | 2020-02-10 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier |
| The Deep Solarities: Cody SharpHead — S3E4 University of Alberta | Publication | 2020-02-10 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier |
| The Deep Solarities: David Dodge — S3E5 University of Alberta | Publication | 2020-02-10 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier |
| The Deep Solarities: Rocky Feroe — S3E3 University of Alberta | Publication | 2020-02-10 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier |
| The Deep Solarities: Sheena Wilson — S3E1 University of Alberta | Publication | 2020-02-10 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier |
| What can climate justice organizers learn from the "energy humanities?"Talking Radical Radio podcast episode with Sheena Wilson. University of Alberta | Publication | 2020-02-18 | Wilson, S. |
| International Youth Deliberation on Energy FuturesThe International Youth Deliberation on Energy Futures initiative is a joint research project between Lynette Shultz (UAlberta), Mark Simpson (UAlberta), Sheena Wilson (UAlberta), Derek Gladwin (UBC), Imre Szeman (Waterloo), Eva-Lynn Jagoe (UToronto), and Jordan Kinder (Petrocultures) bringing high school youth together from around the world to learn from each other about energy, energy futures, and energy literacy. University of Alberta, University of Waterloo | Publication | 2019-07-04 | "Lynette Shultz", Simpson, M., Szeman, I., Wilson, S., "Derek Gladwin", "Eva-Lynn Jagoe", "Carrie Karsgaard", Jordan Kinder, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Future Proofing Report -- La Cité Résiliente: A Decade in TransitionPage range: 1-164.
La Cité Résiliente: A Decade in Transition is a grass-roots community
energy transition project based in Edmonton’s Bonnie Doon neighbourhood, organized
by those who live and work in the area to think about what they want from and for
the future. University of Alberta | Publication | 2020-07-02 | Wilson, S. |
| Research Archive: "The Power of Art to Influence Social Change" University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-03-01 | Wilson, S., Loveless, N., Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Power Shift University of Alberta | Publication | 2021-06-02 | Simpson, M., Loveless, N., Kimberly Skye Richards, Vicki Kwon |
| Just Powers WebsiteThe website for iDoc and SEF, hosting open access FES-related outputs and providing a platform for research dissemination and the recruitment of new researchers. University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-08-15 | Wilson, S., Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum |
| Petrocultures University of Alberta | Publication | 2022-04-23 | Simpson, M., Wilson, S., Jordan Kinder |
| Seed Time: Sister Plantings for Regenerative Energy Futuresan online exhibition
University of Alberta | Publication | 2021-04-07 | "Tegan Moore", Mookerjea, S., "Joan Greer" |
