Creating A Climate for Healing
Exploring artistic international partnerships between Africa and the Diaspora, UK based performance artist Chanje Kunda and Zambia based art director Serah Chule, devised an independent project to explore site specific environmental actions in the performing arts in Zambia. As survivors of trauma, our own healing is interlinked with that of mother earth. How can we empower ourselves in the fight against the climate crisis?
We create art to highlight environmental issues relating to: plastic pollution, metal mining and global warming.
We want to shine a light on the personhood of the land, the personhood of the rivers and oceans. They need protecting and have rights just like we do. We create art to highlight environmental issues relating to: plastic pollution, metal mining and global warming. With Global warming, coral reef are dying, sea levels are rising causing hurricanes and cyclones that are destroying lives. Forest fires are increasing and droughts are causing desertification of grasslands.
Using the black female body as a canvas for modern art, Chanje Kunda and Serah Chule are joining the movement for a better future. Their battle commenced with a photographic project and a poetry, dance and art installation at CCA Gallery in Lusaka on 6th April 2024. Also they are exploring: can digital art be used to shift consciousness and drastically reduce industrial meat and dairy, and fossil fuel consumption in the global North, and to start a movement of re-forestation of our world.