Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage
Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage is an online artistic research residency, a series of public events, and a set of commissioned texts, aimed at facilitating a transdisciplinary exchange around the issue of loss and damage caused by the climate crisis. “Loss and damage” is a term that is used in two ways. Firstly, it is used as a technical term by climate scientists, researchers and policymakers to describe the devastation that is being caused by the climate crisis. When used in that way it is stylised with a lower case “l” and “d” (“loss and damage”). Whilst, when stylised with an uppercase “L” and “D” (“Loss and Damage”) it is used to describe the policies and plans that are implemented to address loss and damage, such as those that are negotiated at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Throughout the year-long research residency, the selected artists and/or curators are engaged with the issue of loss and damage and encouraged to spend time exploring and developing their artistic and/or curatorial practice in dialogue with other like-minded cultural practitioners as well as a global community of climate change researchers, policymakers, advocates, activists, and negotiators, working on Loss and Damage — the policies and plans developed to address loss and damage.