Episode 5: The Climate Crisis: Reality and Fiction Created by Colonialism

Listen to the Episode 5 Season 3 of the podcast "A Future in the Folds of the Past", which focuses on the role of art institutions, artists, and cultural practitioners in discussing the climate crisis.

In this episode, we explore the relationship with the land in the context of post-colonialism and ongoing colonialism, using the cases of Algeria and Palestine. We delve into artistic interventions in environmental architecture and documentary cinema.

We speak with Jumana Manna, a Palestinian visual artist and filmmaker, about her documentary Foragers, which focuses on Palestinians' relationship with the land under occupation.

We also speak with Ikram Hamdi Mansour, an Algerian environmental architect and researcher, about the impact of the colonial experience on Algeria’s natural landscape, and the relationship between the Algerian community and the environment in the post-colonial era. She also discusses her initiative Climate Change, Culture Change.

Some musical and audio clips used in this episode are from the film Foragers (2022), courtesy of the filmmaker Jumana Manna.

Season three focuses on the role of art institutions, artists, and cultural practitioners in addressing the climate crisis.

Highlighting the impacts of climate change on communities across the SWANA region, particularly vulnerable groups, the podcast emphasizes the role of art in fostering dialogue around the climate crisis.

A podcast that invites listeners on a journey exploring critical issues through the lens of contemporary art and culture, ‘A Future in the Folds of the Past’ is the only Arabic-language podcast dedicated to contemporary visual arts in a documentary format.

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