Forecast by Invisible Dust

‘Forecast’ by Invisible Dust – a new international programme that challenges our certainties about how we would like the future of the planet to be.

From 3–7 March Forecast presents a series of online panel discussions artist performances Q&A’s and film screenings to examine what is shaping our thoughts about the future as we navigate through these unprecedented times.

As part of the Forecast programme Invisible Dust have also asked 40 international participants to provide their response to their central question of ‘what is shaping how you think about the planet’s future?’ Participants responding to the question include antarctic scientists energy experts indigenous environmentalists glaciologists CEOs activists and leading artists. People featured include: Science fiction author China Miéville Environmentalist and indigenous peoples activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim physicist Carlo Rovelli CEO of Energy UK Emma Pinchbeck model author & activist Lily Cole and founder of the Black Environmental Network Judy Ling Wong.

FULL EVENTS PROGRAMME

Wed 3 Mar 2021 13:00 GMT
Forecast Launch and Fei Jun's Interesting Worlds: The World Tour
The opening of the Forecast event series commences with an introduction from Alice Sharp Artistic Director of Invisible Dust followed by a discussion with acclaimed Chinese artist Fei Jun Invisible Dust Art-Science Producer Lucy Wood and a range of co-creators from across the globe on a digital ‘world tour’ of Forecast's flagship artwork: Forecasting: Interesting Worlds.

Wed 3 Mar 2021 18:00 GMT
Panel Discussion: What Is Shaping How You Think About the Planet's Future? A panel discussion and Q&A around Forecast's central question of what “What is shaping how you think about the planet’s future?” This question which forms the basis of the Forecast programme will be discussed by a panel including campaigner Lily Cole and climate scientist Emily Shuckburgh in an attempt to better understand what influences our view of the future and what’s next for this planet.

Wed 3 Mar 2021 19:00 GMT
Artist Performance: Ahilapalapa Rands
Ahilapalapa Rands (Hawaiian Fijian Sāmoan Cook Island Pākehā) is an artist from Aotearoa (New Zealand). Her multidisciplinary style focuses on disrupting commonplace narratives and worldviews and is informed by issues relevant to Indigeneity and by how settler colonisation continues to influence power dynamics in the Pacific. This new performance work was commissioned by Invisible Dust for Forecast and will be presented online here for the first time.

Wed 3 Mar 2021 19:30 GMT
A Listening Session by Flourishing Diversity
A listening session by Flourishing Diversity which brings people together to listen and to learn from an indigenous leader.

Thu 4 Mar 2021 12:00 GMT
Sustainable Futures at 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust
A look at the Ugandan Arts Trust's journey to creating Kampala’s first purpose-built arts centre based upon sustainability and community with Teesa Bahana director of 32° East.

Thu 4 Mar 2021 13:00 GMT
Panel Discussion: How Can We Use the Past to Understand the Future?
This panel discussion with speakers including Natural History Museum curator Miranda Lowe Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller and Woman Stands Shining Pat McCabe of the Dine (Navajo) Nation which considers how the past shapes our view of the future and what’s next for this planet.

Thu 4 Mar 2021 18:00 GMT
Panel Discussion: How Can We Adapt to Uncertainty as the Climate Changes? A panel discussion and interactive Q&A around how we can adapt in the face of climate uncertainty featuring artist Adam Chodzko climate scientist Kevin Anderson and entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan.

Thu 4 Mar 2021 19:15 GMT
Performance Screening: Adam Chodzko's 'Woven Time: A girdle of fig leaves' Woven Time: A girdle of fig leaves is a video in the form of a dream premonition. In dialogue with a patch of mud visual artist Adam Chodzko speculates about what art might need to become next and what new ways it might be used in order to make a path of hope into the future.

Thu 4 Mar 2021 19:30 GMT
Film and Artist Q&A - Voices by Alexandrov Klum
A screening and Q&A of the short film Voices an art project to raise awareness for indigenous peoples of the world followed by a conversation with the artists and Flourishing Diversity. The artist duo Alexandrov Klum filmed representatives of some of the world's indigenous peoples in 2019 during the Flourishing Diversity Series in London in order to share knowledge perspectives stories and calls to action to audiences around the world.

Thu 4 Mar 2021 19:30 GMT
Panel Discussion: What Will Our View of Nature Bring to the Future? This panel discussion brings together leading artists scientists thinkers including artist Usman Haque psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist and multi-species justice philosopher Danielle Celermajer to explore the theme of Nature and how our current understanding of it will shape its future.

Fri 5 Mar 2021 17:30 GMT
Panel Discussion: Who Chooses Our Future and How?
This panel discussion with leading energy expert and co-founder of the Mawazo Institute Rose M Mutiso environmentalist and writer Jonathon Porritt and activist Daze Aghaji to explore the theme of Democracy who chooses our future and how they are heard.

Fri 5 Mar 2021 19:00 GMT
Panel Discussion: On Thin Ice by the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. This panel discussion hosted by Forecast programme partner the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Center for Culture History and Environment and Division of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will bring together perspectives from the arts humanities and science to consider ice both as an object and as a metaphor for our planet’s uncertain and fragile future.

Fri 5 Mar 2021 18:30 GMT
Artists Performance: Dark Interludes
A collaboration between Michelle St Anne and Julie Vulcan with The Living Room Theatre exploring pain beauty and breaking the cycle of injustice.