The Climate Emergency in 50 Rounds: Fotobokfestival Oslo Exhibition 2020

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The Climate Emergency in 50 Rounds — Fotobokfestival Oslo 2020. Oslo, Norway, September 10-20, 2020. Photos: Tor S Ulstein.

The Climate Emergency in 50 Rounds was produced in conjunction with Forbundet Frie Fotografer (FFF) for the Fotobokfestival Oslo 2020. The festival exhibition took place in the real world, September 10-20, with a Symposium and related programming following online. The exhibition contains works made by 50 photo book artists and artist collectives whose work urgently responds to the climate crisis. See Intro for more information.

The festival was designed as a space for “direct pedagogy” — an expanded library built for public engagement, dedicated to the movement of knowledge from the institution to the street. The physical exhibition was presented in three subject areas, each of which occupies its own container — Nature: Process and Representation; Documents and Evidence; and Zines and Direct Action. A thorough explanation of these three subject areas appears in the film below — Guided Tour.

Also included in the exhibition were related video works — the videos range from meditations on humanity’s relationship with nature in the 21st century, to the documenting of experimental protests against multinational corporations. Some of these videos can be found on the Artists’ Pages listed below.

The Climate Emergency in 50 Rounds — Guided Tour. Overview of the festival w/ open Q&A regarding specific books. Video: Norwegian Photography Now. Note: please set the quality to 1080 using the gear ⚙️ icon above.

Artists

Ignacio Acosta (CHL) 
Sammy Baloji (COG) 
Mandy Barker (GBR)
 Gilvan Barreto (BRA)
Erik Berglin (SWE) 
Oksana Yushko & Arthur Bondar (RUS/UKR)
 Suzette Bousema (NLD) 
Drew Brown (USA) 
Madeline Cass (USA)
 Paul Cupido (NLD) 
Russel Albert Daniels (NAVAJO/WINNEBAGO)
 Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping (GBR/POL) 
Sandrine Elberg (FRA) 
Sarah Piegay Espenon (FRA) 
Peter Funch (DEN) 
Theresa Ganz (USA) 
Jon Gorospe (ESP/NOR) 
Philippe Graton (FRA) 
Aleksey Kondratyev (KAZ)
 Susanne Kriemann (DEU) 
Minny Lee (KOR) 
Michael Light (USA) 
Marcela Magno (ARG)
 Halldora Magnusdottir (ISL) 
Rita Marhaug (NOR) 
Matteo de Mayda w/ bruno & Francesca Seravalle (ITA) 

Alan McFetridge (GBR) 
Yoshinori Mizutani (JPN) 
Karim Mottaghi (IRN)
George Osodi (NGA)
 Paula Pedrosa (BRA) 
Yan Wang Preston (CHN) 
Maria Primo (ESP) 
Meghann Riepenhoff (USA) 
Josué Rivas (OTOMI/MEX) 
Zied Ben Romdhane (TUN) 
Anastasia Samoylova (RUS)
 Sayler-Morris (Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris) (USA) 
Ronny Sen (IND)
 Małgorzata Stankiewicz (POL) 
Ian Teh (MYS)
 Woong Soak Teng (SGP)
 Gihan Tubbeh (PER) 
Ian van Coller (ZAF) 
Veejay Villafranca (PHL)
Corinne Vionnet (FRA) 
Sergej Vutuc (HRV/DEU) 
Tomas Wüthrich (CHE) 
Mario Zamora (ESP)
Kari Ørvik (USA) 
Oliver Ressler (AUT) (Film & flag poster)
Taco Hidde Bakker (NLD) (Symposium MC & poster)