Beyond the World’s End

Visitors stand and sit on low wooden benches in a white gallery, their backs to the camera, facing two wall-mounted screens. On each screen a pale circle edged in red holds a faint drawing; a woman in a navy sweater and another with a patterned backpack lean in to look.
Kite-like forms of paper on thin frames hang from a gallery ceiling, bound in hot pink and lime ribbon, some painted with orange and gold diamonds. Long pale streamers swoop between them, one lettered in red, while the tops of visitors' heads crowd in below.
Title
Beyond the World’s End
Artist/Creator
Amy Balkin, Laurie Palmer, Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, Allora & Calzadilla, Future Farmers, Super Futures Haunt Qollective, Krista Franklin, Helen and Newton Harrison, Rasquache Collective
Description
A group exhibition that treated apocalypse as something many communities have already lived through, by way of colonialism, displacement and genocide, rather than as a coming event. It brought together artists whose work traces the roots of present social and environmental injustice and imagines just, ecologically sustainable alternatives. Works included Amy Balkin's People's Archive of Sinking and Melting, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman's video proposal for a cross-border environmental commons at the Tijuana River estuary, Laurie Palmer's solar-powered discussion table Public Sun / Arendt's Table, and Newton Harrison's maps of Mediterranean pollution. The exhibition was guest curated by T. J. Demos at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. It was the culminating exhibition of UC Santa Cruz's year-long, Mellon-funded Beyond the End of the World project, organized with The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies.
Event Type
Exhibition
Date
March 6 – June 21, 2020
Location
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, California
Organizer
T. J. Demos
Affiliated Organizations
Center for Creative Ecologies
The Politics of Earth Day: Gaza and the Genocide–Ecocide Nexus
Geographic Scope
International / Global
Climate & Ecology Themes
Climate Justice
Environmental Justice
Extraction and Mining
Discipline / Field
Arts & Design
Humanities
Concepts
Speculative Futures and Imagination
Colonialism and Decolonization
Audience / Engagement Type
Public / General Audience
Methods & Approaches
Speculative / Futures Practice
Public Programming
Rights
Rights held by artist or creator
Website
beyond.ucsc.edu/exhibitions
Contributor
Whitney Ford-Terry (MAH Exhibition Catalyst)
Publisher
UC Santa Cruz, Center for Creative Ecologies and The Humanities Institute
Item sets
California Art & Climate Archive
UC Santa Cruz
Media
Visitors stand and sit on low wooden benches in a white gallery, their backs to the camera, facing two wall-mounted screens. On each screen a pale circle edged in red holds a faint drawing; a woman in a navy sweater and another with a patterned backpack lean in to look.Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, Beyond the World’s End 1
Kite-like forms of paper on thin frames hang from a gallery ceiling, bound in hot pink and lime ribbon, some painted with orange and gold diamonds. Long pale streamers swoop between them, one lettered in red, while the tops of visitors' heads crowd in below.Rasquache Collective, Beyond the World’s End 2