Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage Symposium | SESSION #7: Sonic and Sensorial Archives of Survival Against Climate Violence

This session of the Ways of Repair : Loss and DamageSymposium, saw a panel discussion award-winning writer on contemporary art, global politics, and ecology T.J. Demos, artist, storyteller, researcher and conservationist Vivien Sansour, cultural worker, educator, researcher and vinyl selector Nombuso Mathibela, urbanist and cultural worker Sibonelo Gumede brought a critical analysis to Loss and Damage discourse through the consideration of music and cultural production, food and seeds as an ecological practice and and the aesthetics and politics of experimental artistic practices that connect harm and reparation to care and transformation. This discussion centered upon the following key topics: Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, the extension of the horizon of flourishing ecological futurity beyond green capitalist solutionism, intangible Loss and Damage inflicted by the climate crisis on cultural heritage and identity and its connection to colonial modernity in South Africa.