Colette Abu-Badu

Colette Adu-Badu is a cultural worker interested in the transformative potential embedded in the convergence of activism, arts, culture, history, and technology, and what may be discovered at their intersections. As a multidisciplinary practitioner developing their practice as an archivist, curator, and researcher, their work is driven by a commitment to collective liberation, ethical collaboration, and the revitalization of ancestral knowledge systems as a pathway to self-determination, collective justice, and worldmaking.  Being keenly aware of the devastating impact of the climate crisis on marginalized populations and communities around the world -many of  whom are losing their material culture, traditional livelihoods, and vital systems and  especially those that have reached a critical point where adaptation is no longer possible- Colette is deepening their exploration of cultural sustainability within this time (of climate crisis) through engagement with the concept of loss and damage, diasporic memory, queer ecological and emerging technologies and their role in shaping liberated futures. In their exploration of various forms of cultural production, their projects are united by a belief in art as a catalyst for provocation, connection, and collective healing. They employ these aspects of their practice  as approaches to changemaking and also modes of highlighting the many areas in the world whose progress in surviving climate change is affected by extractive relationships and political and economic systems beyond the reach and control of these most affected people and places