Description
The Goethe-Institut and the Prince Claus Fund’s multimedia exhibition Take Me to the River curated by Maya El Khalil, showcases selected works from various countries, including Egypt, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, and Congo. Cultural professionals, artists, architects, and designers worldwide are addressing the challenges of climate change while engaging their communities. Their work opens up creative spaces that raise awareness on environmental shifts and potential solutions to counter the climate crisis. These works include film, photography, VR video, audio-visual archives, and community radio. Since 2018, the joint funding programme by the Goethe-Institut and the Prince Claus Fund has supported over 35 art and culture projects from around the world addressing global environment changes. Take Me to the River presents 15 of these projects online, highlighting voices against resource depletion, environmental exploitation, and violations of indigenous rights. The exhibition was presented online as a response to the coronavirus pandemic, and it weaves each individual project into narratives that explore nature’s rights, environmental abuse, nature’s imagined prosecution, human-induced natural disasters, and the complex impact of climate crisis. Additional funded works will be added to the presentation in the future, creating an online archive.