Full-time faculty member and artist Fia Backström, and New York based artist Gabriela Salazar address why the climate crisis, a now unavoidable topic, presides in their practice. Through the prism of climate, Fia and Gabriela discussed the importance of collectivity, environment, and non-complacency in relation to their respective projects: Facing Her Land – Notes from elsewhere and Matters in Shelter (and Place, Puerto Rico). Omar Berrada, curator and adjunct instructor in the School of Art, moderated the discussion.
Cooper Union X Climate Week 2019 is a student-led series of events that provides space for The Cooper Union and its broader community to explore and engage in themes, across a variety of disciplines, which examine the many facets of the climate crisis.
This event rook place in the Rose Auditorium at 41 Cooper Square, between Third and Fourth Avenues.
The Cooper Climate Coalition, an open body of students, faculty, and staff at The Cooper Union, facilitates conversations, events, and student projects within the institution that center the Climate Crisis and its intersections with races, classes, genders, sexualities, histories, economies, political structures and more.
Along with organizing Cooper Union’s Climate Week programs and events in the fall, the Climate Coalition takes responsibility for fostering interdisciplinarity throughout The Cooper Union in support of environmental action.
