DEBUNKING GREEN

Inaugural Travel Exhibition at FONDERIA 20.9 in Verona, Italy

9th of March – 5th of April 2024

“H is for HEMP, A Green Art Extravaganza” was the first chapter of the hemp traveling exhibition that aimed to minimize and document the environmental impact associated with the production of an art showcase. 

Maren Krings and her work were the prize recipient of PhMuseum 2023 Photography Grant. The exhibition has been curated and produced in collaboration with Fonderia 20.9 gallery in Verona.

Travel Exhibition – 2nd Stop at the 18th International Society of Ethnobiology* Congress (ISE Congress 2024) in Marrakesh, Morocco

15 – 20 May 2024

The exhibition was shown in the Cultural Forum of the Conference at Cady Ayyad University alongside an intervention at the Le18 Cultural Forum of Marrakesh

Elevating Cannabis: A Paradigm Shift in Global Perspectives
This ScienArt Intervention was a collaboration between Maren Krings (artist), Jan Martin Padouk (medical cannabis researcher) and professor Khalid Mouna lecturer at the Moulay Ismail University of Meknès (anthropologist & cannabis expert). The interactive session included three presentations by the conveners and a co-created Anthotype artwork made with cannabis phyto-colours.

The Cannaphytotypes were part of the interactive cultural forum, which lend much space for exchange, discussions and new project presentations every day of the 5 days of conference. Also the film UKRAINE – Chance for a Green Discovery was shown here, exemplifying how industrial hemp cn be used to rebuild homes after destruction from conflict or natural disaster.

Prohibited Plants, Patriarchy & Environmental (in)Justice in colonized Bodies – Territories

This session was presented by the Coalition of Drug Policy & Environmental Justice, with three of their members presenting at the ISE Congress, Clemmie James (UK), Diego Andres Lagos Vivas (Colombia) and Maren Krings (DE)

In this session we will expose the consequences of prohibiting plants such as coca, cannabis, hemp and opium and the violence inflicted on women, LGBTQIA+, native, indigenous, Afro-descendant and peasant communities as a result of disproportionate policing and militarization. 

 The political choice of prohibiting certain drugs has facilitated a violent war on the most vulnerable communities in some of the planet’s most ecologically fragile regions; the global tropical rainforests. It has created a multibillion dollar unregulated trade, been a political front for pursuing extractive industries and rendered the state institutions that should be protecting nature and society; corrupt and dysfunctional. 

The so-called ‘ war on drugs’ has weakened  community resilience in regions key to our climate future and should be a grave concern to all those that advocate for social and environmental justice. 

The speakers presented from the global perspective and also localities in Colombia. As well as presenting on the legacy of this war we also explored the opportunities and risks arising from developing reforms in countries like Colombia and how this might play out as ecological harm reduction. We concluded by discussing the properties these plants have for bioremediation and regenerative agriculture which will go towards climate resilient development. 

Travel Exhibition – 3rd Stop in Reyikjavik, Iceland

01 – 31 October 2024

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