Luiza Prado with contributions by Chanelle Adams, Elena Agudio, Amazoner Arawak, Maxwell A. Ayamba and Sarah Mady.

Where do we go as the land crumbles under our feet? How do we learn to grow again, once the tower has fallen?

At a time when multiple, overlapping crises — environmental disasters, pandemics, economic recession, the spread of fascist ideologies — cast such long shadows on the choreographies of the everyday, a reflection on the theme of world-endings — and beginnings — feels inevitable. Within this precarious landscape, art holds a fundamental role. In order to effect change in the world and its systems, we must first be able to imagine what else lies at the doors of possibility.

Grounded by dialogues with collaborators operating as artists, curators, writers, activists, scholars, thinkers, and art workers, the primer emerges, both as a critique to proposed easy solutions to harmful environmental practices in the arts, and as a meditation on change; an exercise in ‘postponing the end of the world’, as Krenak posits.

Please read the Primer alongside the five interviews with Chanelle Adams, Elena Agudio, Amazoner Arawak, Maxwell A. Ayamba and Sarah Mady.