Ecologists at Risk Recidency Cluster Pilot
The objective of Ecologists at Risk (ER) is to open the 1st independent Residency at Aki Aora, Mexico for at-risk ecologists. ER is a next-gen residency programme at the intersection of environmental activism and art/culture.
The objective of Ecologists at Risk (ER) is to open the 1st independent Residency at Aki Aora, Mexico for at-risk ecologists. Designed as the centre of a future ER-Residency Cluster for the Caribbean, Central & South America. ER is a next-gen residency programme at the intersection of environmental activism and art/culture. ER is modelled on Perpetuum Mobile’s innovative and successful Artists at Risk (AR) residency programme, which moved over 500 artists to safe residencies in 2022 alone. But whereas AR is an institution at the interface of the arts and human rights, ER will support ecological activism, the arts and human rights.
Perpetuum Mobile has worked with hundreds of hosting organizations, and is now working to establish a residency facility and training centre within the UNESCO World Heritage site Sian Ka’an biosphere, an ideal location for ecologists. The project is lead by Perpetuum Mobile (FI), in collaboration with Aki Aora (MX). Other collaborators are Unam Planetarium & Observatory (MX), Impact0 (MX), Cine Tonalá (MX), Ivan Restrepo (MX), CEMDA (MX), Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir (MX), Radio Candela (CO), Marcela Lugo Mora (CO), GEMA (MX), LADLE (MX), SAVE Mexico (MX).
About the applicant
Perpetuum Mobile (PM), is an NGO co-founded by Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen (in alternating order) in 2007, as a curatorial vehicle which brings together art, practice and inquiry. It acts as a conduit and engine to re-imagine certain historical, theoretical and practical paradigms in fields which often exist in disparate institutional frames and territories. PM has worked extensively in the Nordic, European and international field.
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