Round Table

“UNDERLYING” MIAMI – IMAGINING CLIMATE FUTURES

Ross Classroom, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 1103 Biscayne Blvd | Transportation Options

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This roundtable discussion stems from an ongoing art/research seminar exploring the governance of climate change and sea level rise in Miami. This summer intensive at the ICA investigated the operational logics of climate futures finance (in the form of social impact investing, sea level rise derivatives etc) as situated within enduring histories of racialization and the ongoing process of inscribing settler colonial jurisdictions on native (wet)lands. In this discussion we will describe an evolving analytic as well as introduce a collective counter-mapping method.

Participants will also have the option to participate in a field trip on Sunday, 4 November, that will focus on climate futures, carbon markets and, especially, a series of newly-proposed sea level rise derivatives. More information about this opportunity will be discussed in your session.

Rozalinda Borcilă is an educator and writer. She is interested in developing experiential and analytic methods for tracing local geographies of global racial finance. She uses performance, field research and video to explore how imperial border regimes are produced, experienced and contested. She is committed to noborder struggles and is part of the NoName Collective and Moratorium on Deportations Campaign. She teaches in universities, social centers, squats, refugee camps and the streets.
 
Yahalétke / Rev Houston R. Cypress serves as the head of Love the Everglades, an organization devoted to the development of platforms and initiatives for environmental protection and cultural preservation. Cypress also uses his platform to speak out as an advocate for two-spirited and non-binary gender peoples’, cultural preservation, business development, and sovereignty. Cypress acts as a cultural ambassador, fostering meaningful exchanges between his society of native clans and the Miami community.
 
Gean Moreno is currently Curator of Programs at ICA Miami, where he established and runs the Art + Research Center. He was on the Advisory Committee for the 2017 Whitney Biennial. He is founder and current co-director of [NAME] Publications, a press dedicated to art and design theory, and he has written for various publications, including e-flux journal and Art in America. His most recent book, co-authored with Ernesto Oroza, is Notes sur la maison moire.