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Talk & Reading: Fault Lines – the Poetics of Borders and Environmental Crises with Khairani Barokka ONLINE
Thursday 20th July 2023 , 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Join writer and artist Khairani Barokka to read poetry and chart the long and intertwined histories of environmental crises and political borders. Explore the rest of the Second Nature programme here.
This talk will go into detail about the direct links between borders as we know them, and the multiple unfolding environmental and climate crises as a result of a bordered way of behaving.
Mapping a resistance of bodily poetics, groundedness, and radical solidarities, Okka will recognise the elements under our control—and perceive how some elements may be out of our hands.
Fault Lines will be followed by readings from Okka’s latest poetry collection, Ultimatum Orangutan, as well as from Indigenous Species.
This event will premiere online on Thursday 20th July at 7pm via our YouTube channel.
This event is part of Second Nature: imagining climate futures, a focused week of events on sustainable practices, reparative habits, and imagining climate futures.
Khairani Barokka*
Khairani Barokka is an Indonesian writer and artist in London, whose work has been presented extensively, in fifteen countries. She is Researcher-in-Residence at UAL’s Decolonising the Arts Institute, and Modern Poetry in Translation’s Inaugural Poet-In-Residence. Among Okka’s honours, she was an NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow and is a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change. Okka is co-editor of STAIRS AND WHISPERS: d/DEAF AND DISABLED POETS WRITE BACK (Nine Arches), author-illustrator of INDIGENOUS SPECIES (Tilted Axis), and author of debut poetry collection ROPE (Nine Arches).
Access information
This event is hosted online with auto captioning.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Mon-Friday, 9am to 5pm
Address: Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
