Climate Propagandas Congregation
1:1 Model / Diorama
Title | Climate Propagandas Congregation
Concept | Jonas Staal
Commisioned by | Studio Jonas Staal
Type | 1:1 Model / Diorama
Date | 14-15 December 2024
Location | BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
Architecture | Paul Kuipers
Project Coordinator | Nadine Gouders
Images process | Paul Kuipers
Text | Jonas Staal
Climate Propagandas Congregation
Climate Propagandas Congregation is a two-day gathering with cultural workers, theorists, activists, and organizers to collectively imagine and propagate forms of meaningful collective survival in - and in spite of -the present extinction wars.
Climate Propagandas Congregation takes place in a large-scale installation, best described as an ‘immersive diorama.’ The diorama depicts biota of the geological era known as the Ediacaran (635 million years to 541 million years ago), which was a unique non-predatory cooperative ecology consisting of beings that were neither plants nor animals. This ‘pre-socialist socialist ecology’ teaches that complex life on earth propagates from a history of fundamental collectivity, not Darwinist competition.