Confronting Climate Change with Creativity and Collaboration
University Of Aberdeen
King's College
Aberdeen
AB24 3FX
This panel discussion brings together Aberdeen-based artists and writers who are responding to climate change and its impacts on our environment through creative approaches.
University of Aberdeen Interdisciplinary Fellow, Dr Rebecca Macklin, will be joined by sound artist Maja Zećo and curator Rachel Grant to discuss their Soundwalk series about Torry’s last remaining greenspace, St Fittick’s Park. They will also be joined by poet Genevieve Carver who has been collaborating with the university’s School of Biological Sciences on research into breeding fulmars in Orkney, and acoustic monitoring at North Sea windfarm sites.
Genevieve Carver is a writer working in poetry, children’s fiction and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her first poetry collection, A Beautiful Way to be Crazy (Verve Poetry Press, 2020) was based on a gig theatre show, with live band highlighting female experiences in the music industry, and her pamphlets Landsick (Broken Sleep Books, 2023) and Birds / Humans / Machines / Dolphins (Guillemot Press, 2024) explore ecology and interactions between human and non-human worlds. Her poetry has appeared in journals including Mslexia, The White Review, The North, The London Magazine, Magma and Poetry News , and she won The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2022. Genevieve is currently Poet in Residence with the School of Biological Sciences and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Aberdeen.
Rachel Grant is a freelance curator based in Aberdeen and works under the platform ‘Fertile Ground’ which focuses on interdisciplinary projects, place-based approaches and (post-)extractive practice. Her research focus includes ‘petroculture’ (the social relations produced by our use of and dependency on oil), particularly its impact on Aberdeen’s political ecology, the unfolding energy transition and contested narratives of Just Transition. Recent projects include interdisciplinary research project ‘Living with Energy Transition’; ‘Oil Tour’, a participatory walking tour; and ‘Just Transition Residential’ co-organised with Friends of the Earth Scotland and Grass Roots to Global.
Dr Rebecca Macklin holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Leeds. From 2017-18 she was a Fulbright Researcher at Cornell University and from 2020-21 she was Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2021-2024), and came to Aberdeen in 2023 from the University of Edinburgh. In October 2024, she will take up the post of Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Social Inclusion and Cultural Diversity at the University of Aberdeen.
Dr Maja Zećo (Gray’s School of Art) is a practice-based researcher exploring identities and listening in spaces of socio-political tensions and post-conflict areas. This work informs her practice of de-colonising through critical engagement with institutional, group and individual narratives. Her sound and performance pieces have been presented internationally, including in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Zurich, Vienna and Sarajevo.
This event is in partnership with the Aberdeen University Sociology Society.
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