FREE ENTRY / Seed Award - CAREC Cycle 5 Call for Applications

The climate crisis is a global reality, unfolding across different scales, in varied forms, and with varying intensities. While its accelerating effects are now acknowledged worldwide, they are felt most severely and disproportionately by communities in the global majority. 

Cover image courtesy of Cycle 2 Fellow Guely Morató Loredo.

Artists and cultural practitioners are actively responding to this crisis through a wide range of approaches — from hands-on interventions to expansive reflections; from examining the microscopic to connecting broad communities; from documenting injustices to advocating for intersectional climate justice and imagining paths forward. 

Cultural & Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis (CAREC) is a multidisciplinary programme that supports artistic and cultural practices critically engaging with the relations, dynamics, and infrastructures that shape our ecosystems — including their political, social, and temporal dimensions. It welcomes individuals exploring how climate justice can be approached through aesthetically evocative actions that articulate reciprocal and adaptive connections between humans, more-than-humans, and the environment.

Within the programme’s broader inquiry, CAREC investigates the contextual dynamics between aesthetic responses and politics, and how technologies — from everyday and traditional to digital approaches — can be used, often in combination, to foster meaningful engagements. At its core, the programme places a strong emphasis on ethical frameworks, particularly in relation to community involvement, material sourcing, and knowledge systems. CAREC critically reflects on the responsibilities carried by artists and creatives, underscoring the need for approaches that reject extractivist practices in favour of cooperation, accountability, and mutual respect.