The CICC School Programme is a series of talks, workshops, assemblies, screenings, guided walks, and performances designed to activate the CICC installation at Ambika P3 and across London and provide additional context for and examining the threads of research that connect intergenerational climate crimes to our present. A full schedule for the CICC School is included below.
The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) was established to critique the liberal legal system that privileges states and corporations over ecologies and communities. In addition to holding evidentiary hearings against the East India Company, British Crown and others, the London iteration of the CICC will host a CICC School at Ambika P3 from 8-24 April 2024. The CICC School will deepen and expand knowledge of the intergenerational and colonial impacts of climate crimes perpetrated by corporations and states acting in concert since the era of the East India Company. Bringing together critical scholars, public intellectuals, activists, campaign groups, community organisations, students, artists, and others, the CICC School will host a series of talks, workshops, screenings, performances, and guided walks that activate the installation in Ambika P3 and shine light on the intergenerational and colonial nature of crimes against ecologies and communities, natures and cultures.
Full Schedule forthcoming.
Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC): The British East India Company on Trial
A project by Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal
Commissioned and produced by Serpentine Ecologies
In partnership with Framer Framed, Amsterdam (long term partner), Law Development & Conflict Research Group, CREAM, Ambika P3, University of Westminster, Creative Scotland, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and Create Ireland.
With special thanks to Mondriaan Fund.
Curated and Produced by: Lucia Pietroiusti, Daisy Gould, Isobel Peyton-Jones, Serpentine, with Eva Speight
Research Assistants: Daniel Voskoboynik and Muhammed Ahmedullah
Coordinator and Producer, Studio Jonas Staal: Nadine Gouders
Architect: Paul Kuipers
Graphic design: Remco van Bladel
Photo and video documentation: Ruben Hamelink
Construction, Studio KunstWerk: Michael Klinkenberg and Niklas van Woerden
An Ecological Futurisms initiative at CREAM, Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, University of Westminster. Led by Neal White, Matthias Kispert, Roshini Kempadoo
Venue managers, Ambika P3: Niall Carter and Eleftherios Dimoulias
The inaugural edition of CICC (Amsterdam, 2021) was commissioned by Framer Framed, Amsterdam. The CICC – The Law on Trial (Seoul, 2022) was produced by Drifting Curriculum and Arts Council Korea (ARKO) and co-produced by Framer Framed, Amsterdam. The CICC – Extinction Wars (Gwangju, 2023) was co-commissioned by the Gwangju Biennale Pavilion Project and Framer Framed, Amsterdam, hosted by Gwangju Museum of Art in partnership with Arts Council Korea (ARKO), the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Netherlands), Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AfK), the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Korea, and the Mondriaan Fund.
Contributor Bios
Radha D’Souza is a Professor of International Law, Development and Conflict Studies at the University of Westminster (UK). Radha is a public intellectual from India where she worked for social justice movements. She was a trade union organiser in Mumbai, a democratic rights and environmental justice activist. She was a leading participant in the anti-globalisation movements and wrote the concept paper Workers in a Global World (1996) which became the basis for a Asia-wide campaign to oppose WTO proposals to link labour standards to trade agreements and forced the WTO to take the proposal off its agenda. She has written extensively across disciplines for academic and non-academic publications and platforms. Her book Interstate Disputes on Krishna Waters: Law, Science and Imperialism (2006) examines, for the first time, colonial laws and science as vectors for interstate water conflicts over generations in India. Her book What’s Wrong With Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations (Pluto 2018) forms the conceptual basis for the CICC.
Jonas Staal (1981) is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, democracy, and propaganda. Exhibition-projects include We Demand a Million More Years (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2022), Extinction Wars (with Radha D’Souza, Gwangju Museum of Art, 2023) and Propaganda Station (Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2024). His projects have been exhibited widely at venues such as the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, V&A in London, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, M_HKA in Antwerp, Centre Pompidou-Metz and the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, as well as the 7th Berlin Biennale, the 31st São Paulo Biennale, the 12th Taipei Biennale and the 14th Shanghai Biennale. Publications include Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (The MIT Press, 2019) and Climate Propagandas: Stories of Extinction and Regeneration (The MIT Press, 2024). Staal was the winner of the Prix de Rome Award in 2023.