Future on Trial

The engagement with climate justice reveals a complex field of perspectives across multiple temporalities, geographies, and forms of knowledge. In this context, environmental destruction is entangled with economic interests, the uneven distribution of risks and responsibilities, colonial continuities, imperialist power relations, and geological deep time.

The exhibition Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice at the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab moves between two conceptions of justice. One that is produced and negotiated in courtrooms through scientific and legal evidence, data, and visual investigations, and another that understands justice as an unfinished, collective process, grounded in Indigenous knowledge, queer ecology, multispecies perspectives, and activism.