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| Jonas Staal, Climate Propagandas Congregation (2024), BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. Photo: Ruben Hamelink |
Over two days, Climate Propagandas Congregation brought together theorists, artists and organisers involved in struggles around the world to present on ideas raised in artist Jonas Staal’s recent book, Climate Propagandas: Stories of Extinction and Regeneration (2024). In it, Staal identifies and analyses competing climate propaganda, grouped according to their ideological attributes: “Liberal”, “Libertarian”, “Conspiracist”, “Ecofascist” and “Transformative”. Climate Propagandas was co-published by MIT Press and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, an organisation in Utrecht that triangulates politics, activism and aesthetics across a range of practices, including visual and performing arts, theory, publishing and pedagogy.
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Continuing Staal’s practice of staging political assemblies, Climate Propagandas Congregation occurred in BAK’s auditorium among a diorama of “ancestors”; large cut-out chimeras propped up on wooden stands. Based on paintings made by Staal, these fantastic characters featured the heads of leftist icons, including Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, and Ho Chi Minh, grafted onto the bodies of complex organisms that were dominant in the Ediacaran period (635 million to 541 million years ago).
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