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DISPLACEMENT seeks to connect artists and cultural actors from around the world who are addressing themes related to the displacement of people due to disasters and climate change. It will amplify and raise the visibility of their work through PDD events, exhibitions, and the online DISPLACEMENT art gallery.

DISPLACEMENT prioritizes collaboration with local artists in areas most impacted by disaster displacement to highlight their artwork and prompt further awareness about disaster displacement in their regions. The project particularly welcomes work from PDD’s priority geographical regions: Central America, East Africa, South America, South Asia, South East Asia, the Pacific, and West Africa.

Common Room

Common Room applies artistic strategies to disaster risk reduction in the Cipatagelar indigenous community in rural West Java. The non-profit’s work blends personal and symbolic artworks with multidisciplinary projects that…

Xavier Cortada

A common thread in Xavier Cortada’s work is an attempt to reframe the way we see one another and our collective vulnerability to risks associated with the impacts of climate…

Jad El Khoury

The Curtains of Hope project seeks to bring attention to the millions of people displaced each year by the impacts of floods, tornados, droughts and other natural hazards. In particular,…

Maria Lucia Cruz Correia

Common Dreams: flotation school is a prototype for a mobile survival school that travels and adapts to each city’s specific context by partnering with local universities, art institutions, and organizations…

Justin Brice Guariglia

To mark Earth Day 2019, Justin Brice Guariglia presented REDUCE SPEED NOW!, a project commissioned by Somerset House in London to bring together international perspectives on the world’s ecological crisis. Using…

Sidney Régis

Sidney Régis observed that underwater photography was mostly limited to documentary photography rather than exploring its artistic dimension. Art history and photographic theory only addressed less than half of our…

Mary Mattingly, Waterpod Photo courtesy of the artist

Mary Mattingly

Mary Mattingly believes that art is integral to envisioning new worlds. Tackling societal consumption and a mounting ecological crisis, she co-creates interdependent living systems that can contribute to a shared present and…

Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping

Future Scenarios is a multi-platform project by Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping. Working with scenarios thinking, the artists have documented climate change exacerbated phenomena and climate solutions that offer us…

honey & bunny

honey & bunny collaborate with scientists from a wide range of disciplines to ask questions about cultural issues linked to climate change and sustainability. EAT | honey & bunny offer…

Firoz Mahmud

Firoz Mahmud’s ongoing photo-sculpture series Soaked Dream features displaced communities, immigrants, migrant families, members of the diaspora, and ethnic minorities who were displaced by disaster (natural, social, and religious). The…

Anneli Skaar

Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen was a world renowned adventurer, celebrated for his lifelong services in the field of exploration. Nansen’s fame as an explorer paved the way for his career as a highly…

Aleksandra Bardas

In her photo essay, Sweet Salt of Emptiness, Aleksandra Bardas captures the desertification of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan. In Soviet times, Uzbekistan grew large quantities of cotton using strong…

Lars Jan

HOLOSCENES is a collection of multi-format artworks that manifest states of drowning — both in water and the larger systems of our own devising — in order to directly connect…

Søren Dahlgaard

Dahlgaard’s The Inflatable island is visiting different landscapes around the world in an ongoing photo series, which started at the Venice Biennale in 2013. The island acts as a sculptural…

Veejay Villafranca

In 2013 Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, left 6,000 people dead and over 6 million others displaced in the Philippines. It devastated many marginalized communities, particularly…

Amy Balkin

A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting (Amy Balkin, et al.) is a collection of items contributed from places that may disappear owing to the combined physical, political, and economic impacts of climate…

Yoi Kawakubo

This project has documented all the existing nuclear power plants in Japan in with large format photography, however most of the photographs in my series are kept unpublished, planned to…

Re-Locate

Re-Locate is a collective of immersive ethnographic artists and transdisciplinary partners working with individuals, families, and institutions in Kivalina, Alaska, to understand, make visible, and bring action to Kivalina’s relocation…

David Buckland

The Great White Sale Discounting the Future Both artworks were made in collaboration with American artist Amy Balkin. They were made by projecting text onto an iceberg in East Greenland and…

Vicky Long

Vicky established Studio Long in 2015 in order to grow her practice as an artist working across a diversity of media. The studio sets out to make surprising, life affirming work, creating installations and environments and telling stories in multiple ways.

Michèle Noach

Michèle Noach was born in Australia and lived in The Netherlands & USA before her family settled in London in the last hours of the 1960s. She kept pet mice,…

Anne Lydiat Wainwright

Anne Lydiat Wainwright has exhibited both nationally and internationally for over thirty years. Since 2002 until 2017 she lived with her husband Chris Wainwright on board a converted fully navigable British…

Gorm Ashurst

I remember when all this was fields This work looks at encroachment of the sea into human made structures. In this case an old - once much loved - pier…

Ackroyd & Harvey

Sculpture, photography, ecology and biology are disciplines that intersect in Ackroyd & Harvey’s time-based work, often reflecting scientific and environmental concerns and revealing an intrinsic bias towards process and event.…

Still from ALEA by Marie Velardi and Rhino Ariefiansyah Courtesy of the artist

Rhino Ariefiansyah & Marie Velardi

Indonesian anthropologist Rhino Ariefiansyah and Swiss visual artist Marie Velardi filmed the video ALEA in Vendée, France four years after the 2010 storm Xynthia struck the coast, causing severe flooding…

Marie Velardi

Since 2007, Swiss artist Marie Velardi has been drawing islands that are most vulnerable to sea level rise, mainly small, low-lying coral islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. "Terre-Mer"…

Din Muhammad Shibly

Din Muhammad Shibly is a photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh with a special interest in documentary photography.  His prime area of interest revolves around socio-political and environmental documentaries.  Through his…

Lucy + Jorge Orta

Antarctic Village- No Borders and Antarctica World Passport Bureau, on display during the Nansen Global Consultation at Pavillon Sicli in 2015, address issues relating to the environment, politics, habitat, mobility…

Chris Wainwright

Chris Wainwright (1955-2017) was an inspirational leader, academic, artist and activist deeply committed to environmental issues. This commitment led him around the world, teaching, lecturing and continuing to make his…

Atlantic Pacific Boat Project

Atlantic Pacific is a not-for-profit NGO with a simple purpose: we provide lifeboats where there are none. Working with local communities and organisations all over the world, we supply bespoke…