The summer of 2023 was the hottest in world history, forests in the USA, Russia and Greece are burning, Rwanda, Congo and Belgium are constantly flooded and the biodiversity in the Philippines, Indonesia and India is being destroyed at an accelerating pace.
Welcome, climate dominatrix - seeking control in a situation where all the ability to control the situation has been taken away from you.
The residency is a thematic continuation of Margarets masters thesis in sociology “The situated vulnerable body as a biopolitical tool in the context of climate crisis activism in Europe” and to soon to be published article in the journal Social Inclusion “Matter and meaning: the body as a tool for demanding climate action and justice” (written with Antje Jacobs and prof. Karin Hannes).
Margaret Tilk (1999) is a young artist-researcher born in Estonia but raised in Finland, who is currently interested in the role of the body in climate activism, the interweaving of sociology and art, and posthumanist feminism. Tilk has obtained a master's degree in cultural sociology at KU Leuven in Belgium, a bachelor's degree in semiotics at the University of Tartu. At the moment she is studying social design at the master`s program of the Estonian Academy of Arts. As part of Paide Theatre she has been the laureate of the 2021 Estonian Theatre Association board award and a nominee for the performing arts award. Tilk has written essays, reviews and articles, curated, produced and conceptualized.
