(Event) Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes

https://www.damnmagazine.net/calendar/court-for-intergenerational-climate-crimes/Originally published: https://framerframed.nl/en/exposities/court-for-intergenerational-climate-crimes/

The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) is a collaboration between Indian academic, writer, lawyer and activist Radha D’Souza and Dutch artist Jonas Staal, commissioned and developed by Framer Framed. The project consists of a large-scale installation in the form of a tribunal that prosecutes intergenerational climate crimes.

The inauguration of the tribunal will take place on 24 September 2021. From 28-31 October, the CICC will hold hearings against Unilever, ING, Airbus and the Dutch State.

Radha D’Souza & Jonas Staal, ‘Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes’, Study, 2021. Image courtesy of Paul Kuipers and Jonas Staal

The CICC will hold hearings in which evidence will be presented by prosecutors and witnesses relating to intergenerational climate crimes committed by corporations and states acting in concert. This is followed by the presentation of evidence of alternative forms of collective action in defense of intergenerational climate justice. Co-produced by Framer Framed Amsterdam, the CICC focuses on corporations registered in the Netherlands as well as the legal frameworks established by the Dutch state system supportive of the corporations. The proceedings of the tribunal will be led by four judges: Radha D’Souza, Sharon H. Venne, Nicholas Hildyard and Rasigan Maharajh. The legal framework of the CICC is based on D’Souza’s book What’s Wrong with Rights? (Pluto Press, 2018), a critical analysis of neoliberal legal institutions.

The CICC will provide evidence of past and present climate crimes by looking at their impact on the here and now, as well as on planetary life in the future. As such, the tribunal rejects the linear, individualised narratives that underlie the current legal system. The hearings will be documented online. The evidence and testimony files are then presented to both institutional and activist organisations.

In addition to prosecutors, witnesses and the public, the tribunal consists of an ecology populated by extinct animals, plants and ammonite fossils. Each of them, in a different language, is referred to as “comrade”. These non-human ancestors are both evidence of past intergenerational climate crimes and witness to the collective effort of the CICC to contribute to intergenerational climate justice in the present and future.

Opening

Friday 24 September
Doors open: 18:00h
Inauguration: 19:00— please find your seats before 19:00h

Continue reading

An introduction to the project by D’Souza and Staal and reflections on intergenerational climate crimes by the judged can be read in the new issue of Errant Journal, Slow Violence, available here. The catalogue of the exhibition can be downloaded here. Radha D’Souza’s book What’s Wrong with Rights? (Pluto Press, 2018) can be purchased at Framer Framed as well as a selection of books by Kiosk Rotterdam.

Radha D’Souza & Jonas Staal, ‘Comrades in Extinction’, Study, 2020-21

Public Hearings

October 28-31, 13:00-18:00h

The hearings include evidentiary testimony and presentations from individuals and collectives representing Blue Planet Project, The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), Kenya Land Alliance, Oyu Tolgoi Watch (OT Watch Mongolia), Pueblos Indígenas Amazónicos Unidos en Defensa de sus Territorios (PUINAMUDT), Réseau d’Information et d’Appui aux ONG Nationales (RIAO-RDC), Stop Wapenhandel – European Network Against Arms Trade, Synergie Nationale des Paysans et Riverains du Cameroun (SYNAPARCAM), Vettiver Collective, WALHI West Java (Friends of the Earth Indonesia), Watch The Med, and more.

The CICC can be used free of charge for study groups, gatherings and events by activists, researchers, students a.o. that are working in the field of climate justice. Please contact info@framerframed.nl for more information.

RSVP

Due to Corona regulations the hearings are reservation-only.
Get more information about the hearings and REGISTER FROM HERE.

Radha D’Souza & Jonas Staal, ‘Comrades in Extinction’, Study, 2020-21

Project Team

Radha D’Souza (lawyer, writer, academic); Jonas Staal (artist); Josien Pieterse & Cas Bool (co-producers, Framer Framed); Paul Kuipers (architect); Remco van Bladel (designer); Ashley Maum (researcher and co-programmer, Framer Framed); Kees Stad (researcher and co-programmer); Nadine Gouders (coordinator and researcher, Studio Jonas Staal); Jean Medina (production coordinator, Framer Framed); Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei (translation advisor); Ruben Hamelink (filmmaker and photographer); Dinara Vasilevskaia (designer, Framer Framed); Rolien Zonneveld (head of creation and (social) media strategy, Framer Framed); Betül Ellialtioglu (communication and PR coordinator, Framer Framed); Irene de Craen (translation); Michael Klinkenberg, Roelof Vossebeld, Lies van Dam, Daan Hoffman, Noud Vossebeld, Nick van Dijk, Thomas de Kroon, Tim van Elferen, Iwan Kolk, Bas Verduijn, Freerk Wieringa, Alja Bronswijk (production team installation, The Adventures of Mr. Soundmount).

Supported by

Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst; Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam; Gemeente Amsterdam – Stadsdeel Oost; Stimuleringsfonds voor Creatieve Industrie, Rotterdam; Outset Netherlands, Amsterdam.

Partners

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven,
Textiellab, Tilburg.

Attachments

Catalogue – Court for intergenerational Climate Crimes EN