{"id":3597,"date":"2024-01-29T10:49:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T15:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/?page_id=3597"},"modified":"2024-02-12T10:36:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:36:36","slug":"feb-8-bearing-witness-to-crisis-material-stories-of-wildfire-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/feb-8-bearing-witness-to-crisis-material-stories-of-wildfire-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 8: Bearing Witness to Crisis: Material Stories of Wildfire and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As part of her Master\u2019s thesis research, Caylie Warkentin invites us to consider what it means to bear witness to crisis or, in Haraway\u2019s terms, \u201cto stay with the trouble\u201d without being consumed by it. As wildfires increase in frequency and severity in Western Canada due to anthropogenic climate change, myriad individuals and communities are impacted, shifting the experience of climate change from one that is abstract to experiences that are intimately embodied. Providing a select overview of B.C.-based artist projects that collaborate with the material remnants of wildfire, including burned bark, charcoal, and ash, these artist projects offer insight into how sustained engagement with the climate crisis can centre narratives both in loss and resurgence and how we can collectively stay with the trouble.<\/p>\n

Speaker: Caylie Warkentin is a second-year Master\u2019s student in Communication with a Specialization in Climate Change at Carleton University. Her research focuses on the intersection of storytelling, art, and climate change and engages with material forms of making, including printmaking and paper making.<\/p>\n

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