Una Chaudhuri and Marina Zurkow

<p>Friendship as method and medium is the heart of this conversation between Marina Zurkow and Una Chaudhuri, artists-academics behind Dear Climate, a New York-based art collective that engages with climate change through public installations, design, experimental pedagogies, and playful toolkits for multispecies survival.</p> <p>In this episode, Marina and Una share stories of early teaching in the field of Animal Studies, arriving at the right name and mode of address for the collective, and the many friendships across the visual arts, performance, theater, architecture, theory, and design that have deepened their shared practice and aesthetico-political commitments to multispecies worlds over the last decade. They talk about art as “assemblies of information” for engaging with more-than-human worlds, the hard work required for serious collaboration across disciplines, and the need to “displace certitudes,” bring people down to earth, and tune into climate change by imagining new connections.</p> <p>Marina Zurkow is a visual artist who works with a vast range of media, including animation, video, algorithms, mycelia, and food. She teaches at ITP, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Creative Capital, among others. https://www.o-matic.com/</p> <p>Una Chaudhuri is an academic who explores “ecospheric consciousness”—ideas, feelings, and practices that attend to multispecies socialities and geophysical forces that shape human lives. She serves as Dean of the Humanities at New York University and teaches in the departments of English, Drama, and Environmental Studies.</p> <p> </p>