International
Programmes in Sustainable Developments and Vienna MA in Applied Human Rights are
organising a common lecture series on the relations between art, sustainability, human rights, and environmental justice.
The
fourth public lecture of this series is held by Jonas Staal, a visual artist whose work deals with the
relation between art, propaganda, and democracy. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New
World Summit (2012–ongoing). Together with Florian Malzacher he co-directs the training camp Training for
the Future (2018-ongoing), and with human rights lawyer Jan Fermon he initiated the collective action lawsuit Collectivize
Facebook (2020-ongoing). With writer and lawyer Radha D’Souza he founded the Court for Intergenerational
Climate Crimes (2021-ongoing) and with Laure Prouvost he is co-administrator of the Obscure Union.
Staal completed his PhD research on propaganda art at the PhD Arts program of Leiden University, the Netherlands.
In this talk, artist Jonas Staal will discuss his work in the field of “organizational art”:
artworks that take the form of alternative parliaments, climate courts, utopian training camps and experimental biospheres.
Artworks that in response to rising authoritarianism, economic precarity and climate catastrophe do not only aim to contribute
to imagining, but to organizing worlds differently.
