Date
May 2019
Location
London
Venue
Protein Studios
Project website
manmadedisaster.art
Do the Green Thing working team
Ailbhe Larkin
Ashley Johnson
Naresh Ramchandani
Zuleika Sedgley
Chloe Ting
Exhibition artists
Assemble
Cachetejack
Huntley Muir
Hyphen-Labs
Guerilla Girls
Patchwork
Alice Aedy
Jasper Avery
Sarah Boris
Nell Brookfield
Megan Conery
Marylou Faure
Jade Gerrard
Anastasia Korosteleva
Lucy Kirk
Hana Kudsi
Inshallah Montero
Marta Parszeniew
Lizzie Reid
Amani Saeed
Abeer Seikaly
Ngadi Smart
Kirstin Smith
Sophie Thomas
Tea Uglow
Eleanor Ai Wang
Irina Wang
Wong Ka Ying
Reem Yassouf
Laura Jordan Bambach x Maisie May Plumstead
Sabba Khan x Shagufta K Iqbal
Li Maizi x Zhang A Lan
Juliana Vélez Echeverri x Marcela Terán
Press mentions
Art Map
Creative Review
The Dots
Evening Standard
It’s Nice That
Magzter
My Green Pod
The Rooftop
Shado-mag
Thomson Rueters Foundation
Taipei Times
As project manager for Do The Green Thing, Chloe put together Man-Made Disaster, an exhibition that is a powerful response by 36 women and non-binary artists who operate at the intersection of creativity and social change.
The exhibition is a response to Do the Green Thing’s article on how the patriarchy is ruining the planet. Climate change and its effects are intensifying everywhere – leading to extreme weather, water scarcity, crop failure, food insecurity and more. Research has found that women have historically outperformed men in nearly every environmentally conscious behaviour. The patriarchy and its symptoms, like sexism and toxic masculinity, contribute to men turning away from eco-friendly behaviour. Environmental altruism and selflessness can make men feel less macho and some fear that these actions will brand them as ‘feminine’.
Even though men disproportionately contribute to climate change, women and girls are disproportionately affected by its negative impacts. Globally, it is women, predominantly poor women of colour, who suffer the most from the harmful effects. At the same time, at every level of decision-making – from major international organisations to grassroots activism – women’s voices, ideas and energy are underrepresented and undervalued.
With rage, sadness, hope and humour, the artworks from the exhibition explore how the patriarchy is not only bad for the culture but it’s destroying the environment too.
