Nadine Gouders
Nadine Gouders is an ideals-led cultural worker supporting artists, designers and cultural institutions in the realization of projects. She’s worked for several Dutch museums as a curator, project manager and registrar, shaping her as a researcher and ally in the production of artistic work and exhibitions. Her practice is connected by projects with a sensibility for social-political developments and impacts felt by the humans and non-humans she works and co-exists with.
The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) is a project by Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal. The CICC consists of a large-scale installation in the form of a tribunal that prosecutes intergenerational climate crimes. The CICC held hearings against Unilever, ING, Airbus and the Dutch State in which evidence was presented by prosecutors and witnesses relating to intergenerational climate crimes committed by corporations and states acting in concert. This was followed by the presentation of evidence of alternative forms of collective action in defense of intergenerational climate justice.
The CICC provides evidence of past and present climate crimes by looking at their impact on the here and now, as well as on planetary life in the future. As such, the tribunal rejects the linear, individualized narratives that underlie the current legal system. In addition to prosecutors, witnesses and the public, the tribunal consists of an ecology populated by extinct animals, plants and ammonite fossils. Each of them, in a different language, is referred to as “comrade”. These non-human ancestors are both evidence of past intergenerational climate crimes and witness to the collective effort of the CICC to contribute to intergenerational climate justice in the present and future.
25.09.2021 - 16.01.2022
Framer Framed, Amsterdam