Back to Earth is a LIVE programme exploring transformation, queerness, the wild, the natural and the unnatural, as well as, decolonial, Indigenous and submerged perspectives.
Queer Earth and Liquid Matters brought together artists, writers, filmmakers, sound and architecture practitioners to explore decolonial and queer ecologies.
Highlighting different voices and experiences of the climate emergency, the programme aims to complicate the binaries of Western knowledge often encountered in the environmental discourse.
Specifically, Queer Earth and Liquid Matters shed light on land and water struggles, foregrounds queer/trans Indigenous embodiment in the Global South and around the world.
It explored visions and experiences of apocalypse and amplified Indigenous refusal and outrage at the consequences of extractive capitalism.
Participants included Xavi Aguirre, Seba Calfuqueo, Adham Faramawy, Ash Fure, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Ashley Joiner, Jacob V Joyce and Rudy Loewe, Jack Halberstam, Victoria Hunt, Bhanu Kapil, Juan Francisco Salazar, P. Staff, Bones Tan Jones, and multidisciplinary dance theatre company Wringing Metamorphosis.
Visual identity and programme design by Giles Round.
Curated by Macarena Gómez-Barris, Jack Halberstam and Kostas Stasinopoulos.
Presented in collaboration with Stone Nest and QUEERCIRCLE .
