Maria Lucia Cruz Correia: THE AGE OF POST-ANTHROPOCENE: EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON FUTURE LAW REGARDING CLIMATE CHANGE

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Saturday, August 27th, 17.00–18.30
Ljubljana City Municipality, conference room

Have humans permanently changed the planet? Do we need new legislation to adapt to a post-anthropocentric era? Applying the score/scheme to a juridical case, if we could legally propose a new agreement regarding nature and the environment, the »crime« being ecocide, who would be the victims? Humans and/or nonhumans? Who are the perpetrators? Who the witnesses? How can we assuage climate crises by adding new laws to the constitution?
Maria Lucia Cruz Correia, together Katja Eman, addresses the topic of stepping out of the anthropocentric discourse, contemplating on the legislative aspects of the relationship between nature and man. Legislation is a form of a social contract, an agreement. However, a new agreement now appears to be in order, one under which voice is also given to living beings other than humans (beings that currently have no voice, at least not one humans are willing to hear). How do we devise such an agreement? Who constructs the new understanding of the relationship, who manages its regulation by law?

Portuguese artist Maria Lucia Cruz Correia graduated from Graphic Design, received her MA in Advanced Performance and Scenography studies and is enrolled in the Transmedia postgraduate program of Arts, Media and Multimedia at the LUCA School of Arts. Correia’s artworks are characterized by environmental awareness, frequently involving collaboration with professionals outside of art circles, most notably scientists and activists. Attempts to change paradigm take centre stage in her work: in her search for utopian healing, she proposes actions that merge with clinical questions concerning the human condition. She searches for tactics of participatory performance, creating her own platform of communal articulations of radical thinking on healing, coexisting and sharing.