The Climate Forum is a space of dialogue and exchange with respect to the concrete operational practices being implemented within the art field in response to climate change and ecological degradation.
The spring master symposium at Institute Art Gender Nature, HGK Basel FHNW titled Genders of the Forests will feature a special convening of artists, writers, ecologists, thinkers, curators, activists, and other art practitioners, all of whom, in their disparate practices, consider the forest as both fact and metaphor, at once life form and a kind of epistemology.
First-hand witnesses to the events that began 75 years ago are fast dwindling; the exhibition acts as a repository, collecting histories and ideas in an ever-changing, ongoing process of memorialisation.