Indigenous Climate Futures Embassy
Summary:
Indigenous Climate Futures Embassy (ICFE) is a multidisciplinary, futuristic and anti-colonial art and activism project. It is a nomad performance, installation and indigenous space creating real climate solutions and another kind of Indigenous climate futures.
The artistic practice of Indigenous Climate Futures Embassy (ICFE) consists of traditional indigenous crafts, textile art, performances, media art, artivism and land-based community art. For ICFE, indigenous rights, indigenous climate justice, indigenous knowledge and indigenous imaginaries are the most essential ways for bringing lands back, ocean back, snow back, and ice back.
ICFE is creating Indigenous Climate Solutions in three different ways:
- Embassy visits in Indigenous Climate Futures Embassies and collaborations with indigenous knowledge holders.
- Art & activism workshops on indigenous climate futures and climate solutions in Sápmi, Denmark, England and Aotearoa.
- Creating art work on indigenous climate futures and solutions. This work is exhibited in various venues among others Land Body Ecologies Festival in London in June 2023, and at the exhibition 'Buot gatnjalat oktii golget / Alla tårar rinner ihop / All these tears' by Jenni Laiti and Lada Suomenrinne at Skövde Art Museum in Sweden from April to September 2024.
Indigenous Climate Futures Embassy collaborates with Indigenous traditional knowledge holders, indigenous artists, indigenous climate activists and indigenous communities in Sápmi, Yakutia, Kalallit Nunaat (Denmark), Thailand, and Aotearoa (New Zealand).
