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Collapse as a Condition of (Un)Knowing
A Research Workshop, March 7, 2026, 12–6pm
Contemporary Arts Center Gallery

Please join us for this research workshop organized in parallel to the exhibition ‘The Unworld To Come. Imagining an Otherwise…’, on view at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Gallery through April 4. The workshop has contributions by Jonathan Alexander, Juli Carson, Ashley Hunt, and Mark Minch-de Leon. Facilitated and organized by Annika Haas.

The workshop focuses on cultures of knowing as they are affected by collapsing (cultural, political, and meteorological) climates in the wider sense. This concerns the struggle for evidence and testimony, the reality of epistemicides alongside the expansion of computational, neocolonial information infrastructures, as well as the difficulties to engage with various embodied, ancestral and relational ways of knowing (through) damage and pain as well as destruction, disaster and death in the context of the Westernized university.

Structured through joint writing exercises, shared research, and conversation, the workshop convenes participants to think through collapse as a lived, uneven, and contested reality that shapes how knowledge is produced, felt, and withheld.

This program is part of the first phase of ‘The Neganthropocene: Empire/Money, Science/Politics, Art/Intervention’, a three-part research project by Juli Carson and collaborators under the umbrella of University of California Climate Actions Arts Network (UC CAAN)—a system-wide initiative uniting researchers, scholars, students, and community partners to confront the climate crisis through the transformative power of the arts. UC CAAN is made possible with generous support from the University of California, Office of the President’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) grant program.

More info on our website: https://uag.arts.uci.edu/

Design: Rachel Berger. Photo: Ashley Hunt, Kaleidoscope (detail of film still), 2025.