Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline is a collaborative literacy and climate justice project in search of transformative and regenerative repair. A coalition of art workers, agitators, dream weavers, growers and caregivers have co-created a holistic and ever-growing decarbonisation plan for the art sector and beyond.

Transitioning to a low-carbon planet will affect every facet of daily life but the current paths to decarbonisation, presented to us by politicians, regulators and CEOs, have numerous trade-offs and uncertainties. From Net-Zero fantasies, financialisation of nature to a burn now pay later attitude, each top-down route either reinforces a market-based and extractive approach to the environment, ignores varied individual needs, vulnerabilities and histories, or harms as opposed to protect the planet in its various entanglement of environmental, social, political and sacred ways of being.

Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline sees the climate emergency as a social and political problem, as well as an environmental one. It recognises the interconnectedness of struggles, and in doing so, works to reclaim repair as an initial step towards healing. What does a just transition look like? And how can we heal the imagined future and broken relationships of the present?

Through collective study our coalition asks questions such as: How can intergenerational wealth help communities in the face of climate emergency? What would it mean if we took museums “to the orchards”? What configurations of life are possible after restitution? Is it possible to replace carbon literacy with love?

Together we call for solutions to the climate crisis that not only reduce emissions but create a fairer and more just world in the process.

The plan is a gift to all art workers in their own decarbonisation journeys. Gratitude and solidarity to all our contributing artists, researchers, activists, communities, participants and partners.

The project was commissioned by Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University and it is funded by Stanley Picker Trust and Arts Council England. 

Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline was founded by Dani Admiss.

Dr Dani Admiss (b. 1984, Sharjah, U.A.E) (she/her) is an English-Iranian artist, curator, researcher and educator based in Edinburgh, UK. She uses social practices to explore how narratives of science, technology and colonialism show up in our everyday communities and lived experiences. Admiss develops co-created and public engagement projects, investigations and networks that bring together everyday people and in-world experts to dream and demand robust futures. She has worked with various communities to design immersive game-environments that unwittingly extract data in exchange for public services, written an anticolonial decarbonisation plan for art workers, traced histories of water pollution in an industrialised waterway, created a Bill of More-Than-Human Rights, and set up an alternative ethics committee for ecological and cultural conservation. She has curated numerous exhibitions, conferences, workshops, and edited books, in the UK, the EU and internationally. Currently, she is a Stanley Picker Fellow (2020-ongoing) with Stanley Picker Gallery and Kingston University London. She wrote her PhD in Curatorial Practice and World-Making with an AHRC grant and is a visiting tutor in Design Research at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. www.daniadmiss.com / https://toxicitysrea.ch/ / @daniadmiss

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Studio Hyte is a South London-based design studio working between graphic design, interaction, and emergent communication. We specialise in forward-thinking, multifaceted visual identities and experiences within the arts and education sector. Our aim is to create meaningful, accessible and thought-provoking work. https://studiohyte.com/ @studiohyte

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Chanelle Adams is a researcher, essayist and artist currently based in Switzerland. Her doctoral research in geography approaches questions at the nexus of land, history, and plant medicine in Madagascar and beyond. Fulbright scholar, Chanelle holds an M.A. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France) and a B.A. from Brown University (USA). She leads site-specific ghost tours in botanical gardens, parks and museums of natural history. chanelleadams.info / @nellienooks

Amazoner Arawak (Emerson da Silva Rodrigues) is a son of the Wapixana and Makuxi indigenous peoples. He is an artivist, craftsman, indigenous artist, cultural producer, and marchand. He has lived in several indigenous communities in the Brazilian state of Roraima and in the Amazon, is a social scientist, anthropologist, researcher of the Aruak and Karib indigenous peoples in the triple border Brazil-Venezuela-Guyana, and has a master's degree in social anthropology from UFPE. The universe of his art creation is Amazonian indigenous cultures and indigenous cosmologies; he is a militant and social activist for indigenous rights, human rights, indigenous territories, and the environment. He has participated in more than 250 exhibitions, both collective and individual. He acts as an advisor and does consulting (without remuneration) with the immigrant refugees of the Warao indigenous people from Venezuela, sheltered in Roraima. At this moment they are fighting against illegal mining and the invasion of more than 40,000 men in the Yanomami Indigenous Land in Roraima.

Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). Her work takes a variety of forms: from installations and performance / events, to lectures, live broadcasts & political campaigns. Using an array of strategies, Harrison investigates, exposes and challenges the absurd consequences of our capitalist system: from over-consumption, inequality and alienation, to privatisation and climate change – and explores the impact free-market forces are having on our society, and our individual day-to-day lives. As well as making playful, politically-engaged work for galleries and public spaces, Harrison is also the founder and coordinator of the national Bring Back British Rail campaign – which strives to popularise the idea of re-nationalising our public transport system – and is the agent for The Artists’ Bond – a life-long speculative funding scheme for artists, now with 160 members across the UK.

Dr. Susannah Haslam is a tutor (research) in humanities at the Royal College of Art in London and a research fellow with Theatrum Mundi. Current research navigates loving and equitable relationships between contemporary education and cultural institutions and infrastructures; queer and critical subjects, solidarities, pedagogies, practices and environments; tertiary-level educational alternatives and expansions. Susannah works mostly in collaboration with others: current collaborations are with Dani Admiss, Lou Marcellin, Araceli Camargo, Megha Ralapati, Apex Zero, and Charles Pryor developing an open curriculum for the Sunlight Doesn’t Need A Pipeline project. Susannah wrote her PhD on the ‘Educational Turn’ in art and alternative art education, and previously studied visual cultures.

Samuel Onalo is a Nigerian born art enthusiast, scientist and cyber specialist with a diverse work history. He has a wide range of interests and as result, has worked in different sectors, including Instrumentation Engineering, Logistics and Project Management, Education and Pedagogy Enhancement, Music Technology, Business Process Management, and Cyber Security Research. He is currently working as a graduate intern with the Technology Enhanced Learning team of the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Department, engaged in Lecturing responsibilities in the Network and Information Security department of Kingston University London, where he is a full time PhD research fellow ( Kingston University London - Sam Onalo PhD Fellow), researching novel security architectures based on Distributed/Decentralised Ledger technologies (Samuel Onalo - Published Research papers).

Sean Roy Parker is a food writer, fermentation enthusiast and visual artist based at DARP co-living project in Shipley, Derbyshire (UK). In his ongoing project Fermental Health he writes essays about and leads workshops on the lifecycle of materials, complexities of interspecies responsibility, and problem-solving through collaborative action. He practises slow and low-tech crafts using leftover consumer debris and natural abundances in anticipation of the post-capitalist transition, and redistributes resources through flexible care structures like labour exchange, favours and artswaps. Sean Roy has delivered public research projects on fermenting with microbes for Liverpool Biennial (UK), anarchist solidarity with peasant farmers at Pols (Spain), and recently returned from a two-month residency at NART (Estonia) where he was artist-gardener at Kreenholm Plants and taught himself basic carpentry. @fermental_health

Anne Pasek is an Assistant Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture, and the Environment at Trent University. Her research explores the cultural politics of climate change, with a particular emphasis on the social and technical means through which carbon is enumerated and mobilized within diverse social formations, including climate denialism, the tech sector, and the arts. She is also the director of the Low-Carbon Research Methods Group, a network of scholars examining the climate and equity impacts of decarbonizing academic work, and the Experimental Methods & Media Lab, a hub for research-creation and critical making at Trent with a particular focus on emerging climate tech. In addition to her academic work, she maintains an activist and art practice, focusing on tactics for building power for a just transition. This work can be found at https://www.annepasek.com/ @aepasek / http://lowcarbonmethods.com/

Dr. Luiza Prado de O. Martins is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work examines themes around fertility, reproduction, coloniality, gender, and race. She is part of the curatorial board of transmediale 2021 and an assistant professor and vice-director of the Centre for Other Worlds at the Lusófona University in Lisbon. She is a founding member of Decolonising Design. You can also find her on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Academia. She is currently based in Berlin.

Tatjana Söding is a research member of the Zetkin Collective—a group of scholars, activists, and students working on the political ecology of the far right. Currently, her work investigates the political ecology of the Alternative für Deutschland. She holds a MSc in Human Ecology from Lund University. She is a founding member of the student-led initiative, Erasmus by Train and engages actively in the climate justice movement. Her further research interests include economic and social limits to growth, socio-ecologically just mobility, radical democracy, and queer ecology.

Dr Cecilia Wee fRSA (she / they) is an independent curator, educator and agitator who grew up in Thatcher's London. With a background in participatory creative methods and action research, Cecilia is passionate about addressing issues of equity and precarity in the workplace and beyond, through campaigning, advocacy and strategic projects. Their work addresses equitable infrastructures for art and social action, interconnectedness and relationships within and beyond capitalism, with a focus on Global Ethnic Majorities, disabled, working class and LGBTQIA+ communities. Cecilia has edited books, curated exhibitions and events and led research and artist professional development projects with organisations in UK and Europe. Cecilia wrote her PhD on the documentation of Live Art, is Associate Lecturer in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art, Consultant Producer (Fair & Equitable programme) with Contemporary Visual Arts Network England and founder of tdwm studio. www.ceciliawee.com

Collaborative learning, interviews, workshops, and screenings are by:

Fábio Gonçalves de Almeida, is a historian and journalist, who specialised in environmental management. He is a popular communicator of Resistir Produções, a popular communication channel organising in the state of Roraima, Brazil. He works as a technical advisor (without remuneration) for the State Association of Recyclable Material Collectors - CataTudo. He is a Federal Public Servant at the National Health Foundation (Funasa), working in the area of environmental health.

Elena Agudio (PhD) is a Berlin-based art historian and curator. Since 2013 she has been artistic co-director of SAVVY Contemporary – The Laboratory of Form-Ideas. She also writes and teaches, currently being theory lecturer at the Master Degree in Spatial Strategies at the Weißensee School of Art in Berlin. In 2017 and 2018 she was Guestprofessor at HFBK in Hamburg and Resident Fellow at Helsinki University of the Arts. The principal concerns of her practice are: migration and diasporic belonging, decanonisation, feminisms, ecological and planetary habitability, and the creation of sustainable infrastructures for and with vulnerable communities. From December 2022 she will be the new director of Villa Romana in Florence. @elenaagudio

Maxwell A. Ayamba is a PhD student in Black Studies whose research interests transcends the trajectories of race, ecology and environmental Justice in the UK and; the genealogy of people of Black African ancestry and the natural environment in the UK from the Roman times to slavery, colonialism and post-colonialism. Prior to commencing his PhD at the University of Nottingham, He worked as an Associate Lecturer/Research Associate at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU), after completing a Master of Science Degree. Maxwell who is also a qualified journalist set up the Sheffield Environment Movement charity in 2016 to promote access and participation in the natural environment for people from Black & Ethnic Minority Communities. He also Co- founded the 100 Black Men Walk for Health Group featured on Channel 4 News on January 13th 2019, "Black Men Walking: How walking hobby became a symbol of identity" which inspired the production of the national play "Black Men Walking" by Eclipse & Royal Exchange Theatre Production. In 2013 Maxwell contributed to the publication of OPAL Community Environment Report - Exploring Nature Together launched at the House of Lords. In 2009 he produced a working manual "Engaging Black & Ethnic Minority Communities" - Vols. 1 & 2 (unpublished) for the Environment Agency of the North East Region. @maxwell_ayamba

Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya (they/them) has written about racisms, politics, state practices and racial capitalism. Their books include: Dangerous Brown Men (Zed, 2008); Crisis, Austerity and Everyday Life (Palgrave, 2015); Rethinking Racial Capitalism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018) and the collaboratively authored Empire’s Endgame (Pluto, 2021).

Harry Bix is an Artist and Landscape Architect. He uses the principles of Landscape thinking to shape his context-driven practice. As well as performing and exhibiting internationally, Harry has performed at Camden Arts Centre with the Camden Arts Centre Peer Forum (2022), Tate Modern with the East Anglia Records House Band (2019), Southwark Park Gallery (2018) and ICA (2016). He hosts a streamed visual radio show for tier_plus radio organised by curator Jonathan P. Watts together with his house mates - Artist and DJ Grace Black and Writer George Lynch. eastangliarecords.com / @eastangliarecords

Araceli Camargo is a neuroscientist and health activist investigating the biological links between health and place, she works at Centric Lab. Araceli is of Turtle Island descent and holds an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from King’s College London She has written various pieces of literature regarding this phenomena through the open source digital library for industry practitioners and community organisers called Urban Health Council. Additionally, she has experience in creating digital tools to better understand how the places that we live can present a risk to health, through the use of neuroscience and geospatial data through a tool called Biological Inequity Index and Right to Know. @aracelicamargo_ / @thecentriclab

Lauren Doughty is an artist and illustrator based in London. Informed by art history, and folklore from her dual British & North Macedonian heritage, Lauren plays with drawing and expressive mark-making, exploring spontaneity and subconscious thought, to communicate human experience. Using colour, iconography and mythic motifs, her work draws attention to our personal relationship with the living world, exploring the simple and innate joy we feel to be outdoors, its positive effect on our psyche, and the beauty of small interactions between people in day to day life. https://laurendoughty.com/ / @laurendoughty_

Dr Heba Elsharkawy joined Kingston University (KU) in October 2021 as an Associate Professor in Architecture and Head of Department of Architecture and Landscape. She is a registered Architect in the MENA region, and holds a BSc in Architecture, an MSc in Architectural Studies and a PhD in Environmental Design (University of Nottingham, UK). She is an active researcher in the area of environmental design and sustainability. She has published more than 38 peer reviewed articles in high impact journals and conferences. She is currently leading the British Council HE Partnerships on Climate Change project.

Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service A free and confidential service for children, adults and families providing psychological therapies and support.

Sophie Hope is a senior lecturer and practice-based researcher at Birkbeck, University of London. Her work is often developed with others through the format of devised workshops exploring subjects such as art and politics in the year 1984, physical and emotional experiences of work and histories and politics of cultural democracy and socially engaged art. Current projects include: Manual Labours with Jenny Richards, Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse with Owen Kelly, 1984 Dinners and Cards on the Table. @sophiehope_

Taey Iohe is an artist, writer and gardener based in London and Seoul. She works with a diverse range of media spanning moving images, performance, social practice and assemblage, through an Asian queer feminist lens. Taey produces research-based works that resonate with political, cultural and collective resistance, on toxic and fertile ground, for botany, ecology, and reproduction. She co-founded the Decolonising Botany Working Group, challenging colonial entanglements of knowledge-making around nature and migration. Together they have presented a performance, A Refusing Oasis at Documenta 15 (2022). Taey initiated Care for Collective Curatorial and is a working member of the Feminist Duration Reading Group and an artist-researcher associate at Asia-Art-Activism. She completed her PhD in the programme of Gender, Identity and Culture, funded by Writing on Borders, at University College Dublin. Taey is a Constellations Cohort, a public art practitioners development programme at Up Project in partnership with Liverpool Biennial & Flat Time House (2022). http://www.taey.com @taey.iohe

Marija Bozinovska Jones (MBJ) is an artist who explores links between social, computational and organic architectures. Working across audiovisual formats, installation, ephemeral mediums and in live context, her pieces probe notions of selfhood from subatomic level to networked presence on planetary scale and beyond. Grounded in a belief that a world-making is an intrinsically collective process, MBJ regularly collaborates with researchers, programmers, holistic practitioners and other artists. She has presented work at Abandon Normal Devices, transmediale, Sonic Acts Academy and at Somerset House where she holds a studio residency. https://marijabjones.com @BozinovskaJones

Sarah Mady is a Ph.D. Candidate in archaeology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and an adjunct lecturer at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Her research is focused on healing shrines in North Lebanon that have been used since Late Antiquity by women and mothers of different faiths. These shrines specialized in fertility, lactation, and infant health and many of them are still active today. Her other research interests include the history of archaeology in Lebanon, the intersection of politics and archaeology, and the religious and cultural heritage of Lebanon among other topics.

Lou-Atessa Marcellin is a cultural producer researching ideas of ecosophy in the ecological framework which interconnects social and environmental spheres.With a background in fine art, a graduate of the Royal College of Art (MA Performance) and UAL Camberwell College of Art (BA Photography), she founded the multidisciplinary research platform Diaspore and co-funded a seasonal school called Ronces. She is the Programme and Outreach Associate for the research organisation Theatrum Mundi and has been a visiting lecturer for UAL, the Royal College of Art, The Slade and Goldsmith University in London. www.diaspore.org / www.ronces.org / @diaspore_projects / @rrronces

Charles Pryor is an artist and agroecologist who works at the intersection of agroecosystem resilience, more-than-human storytelling and moving image. Charles has led permaculture workshops at Sakiya (Palestine), unMonastery (Greece), Goldsmiths University (London) and Cityplot (Berlin). Exhibitions and events include: After Progress at The Sociological Review (Online); Unfix Festival (Online); How to Show Time in Monochrome at Manifesta13 (Marseille); Storytelling in the Anthropocene at Tenderbooks (London); I transgress borders and boundaries at Oficinas do Convento, Zaratan, Casa das Artes/Sismógrafo (Portugal) and Splendor (Amsterdam). He recently completed an MSc in Climate Change and International Development from the University of East Anglia, Norwich. https://www.afterprogress.com/the-great-conversation-still-as-someone-passes-by.

Shridhar Sudhir is a graduate of M.Des (Film and Video Communication) at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad before which he pursued a B.F.A. (Visual Communication) course from College of Art, New Delhi. Hailing from Patna, Bihar, he has spent part of his schooling in a residential school in Pilani, Rajasthan, and then in Varanasi, which has given him a broad range of exposures and experiences which later drove him towards photography and then film-making. After finishing his Masters, he has been making independent films and freelancing throughout the country. He briefly worked in Mumbai, where he developed feature film stories and then briefly assisted director/actor Nandita Das, after which he shifted to the mountains of Himachal Pradesh. Here he started Buddhijeev Studios, through which he tries to create audio-visual content in the Indian context. He enjoys travelling, photography, art, sports, playing and listening to music and watching films among other things. www.shridharsudhir.com / @shridhar_sudir

Megha Ralapati is a curator, arts worker, and writer based in Chicago. She oversees the Jackman Goldwasser Residency at Hyde Park Art Centre, which seeks to deepen the relationship between local and global art practices. Megha specialises in artist mobility and has initiated partnerships with community-centred arts organisations based in Chicago and internationally, like Project Row Houses (Houston) and ARTPORT Tel Aviv, and CCA Lagos, among others. Additionally, her writing has been included in recent publications, Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts (n+1 2021), South as a State of Mind (Documenta 2018); Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic (2015 Brooklyn Museum), Black Sun (2014 Devi Art Foundation) and Manual for Treason (2011 Sharjah Art Foundation), and she has presented ideas and writing at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center and as a participant at the Incheon Biennial (Korea 2011). Megha received an MA in Visual Culture from Goldsmiths and a BA in Art History and Anthropology from Columbia University. She is currently a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute. @meghapallavi

Oliver Ressler produces installations, projects in public space, and films on economics, democracy, racism, climate breakdown, forms of resistance and social alternatives. He has completed thirty-nine films that have been screened in thousands of events of social movements, art institutions and film festivals. Since 2019 Ressler directs Barricading the Ice Sheets, a research project on the climate justice movement, funded by the Austrian Science Fund. Ressler had comprehensive solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.); MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; SALT Galata, Istanbul; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo – CAAC, Seville. Ressler has participated in more than 400 group exhibitions, including Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; Centre Pompidou, Paris; CCK, Buenos Aires; EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow; and the biennials in Prague (2005), Seville (2006), Moscow (2007), Taipei (2008), Lyon (2009), Gyumri (2012), Venice (2013), Athens (2013, 2015), Quebec (2014), Helsinki (2014), Jeju (2017), Kyiv (2017), Gothenburg (2019) and Stavanger (2019), and at Documenta 14, Kassel, 2017 (exhibition organized by EMST). https://www.ressler.at / @oliver.ressler

Júlio David Magalhães Rodrigues of the Ye'kwana people, is currentlu president of the Wanassedume Ye'kwana Association - SEDUUME, lives in the Auaris region of the Fuduuwaadunnha community on Yanomami Indigenous Land, graduated in Indigenous Territory Management from INSIKIRAN Indigenous Higher Education - UFRR.

Priscilla Cardoso Rodrigues is a professor of Indigenous Peoples' Rights in the Law Course and in the Insikiran Institute of Indigenous Higher Education of the UFRR, develops research and extension activities in the areas of Indigenous Rights and Feminist Theories of Law and coordinates the Observatory of Human Rights and the Space for Discussion and Training in Human Rights of the UFRR. She is an Artivist, cultural producer and art curator, she curates the exhibitions of the indigenous artivists of Roraima.

Cassie Thornton is an artist and activist from the US, currently living between Canada and Berlin, Germany. She refers to herself as a feminist economist, a title that frames her work as that of a social scientist actively preparing for the economics of a future society that produces health and life without the tools that reproduce oppression— like money, police or prisons. She is currently the co-director of the Re-Imagining Value Action Lab in Thunder Bay, an art and social centre at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of The Hologram Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future available from Pluto Press. www.feministeconomicsdepartment.com / http://thehologram.xyz / www.linktr.ee/TheFeministEconDept

Apex Zero is a multi-disciplinary artist, creating as an emcee, beat maker, filmmaker, photographer and writer. Born and raised in West London with African and Grenadian roots, Apex is a powerful lyricist and cinematic storyteller with an insightful mind and eye, an unmatchable flow, atmospheric sound and ability to connect people to create multi-layered experiences and provoke change. Apex built his reputation on London’s underground Hip Hop scene, releasing mixtapes, touring the UK/Europe, hosting Reggae/Bass music events and entering poetry slams. Through releasing his debut album “Reality Provoking Liberation” he became involved with digital production house GlobalFaction and helped establish I Am Hip-Hop Magazine. Broadening his horizons, Apex relocated to Beijing in 2014, performing across Asia, collaborating with China’s best Hip Hop, Reggae and Bass music artists. Since returning to London, Apex tours globally, collaborates with internationally acclaimed artists, is an organising member of End of the Weak and teaches at the RCA, where he chairs the UCU Branch Committee www.apexzero.co.uk / @apex.zero

Collaborating Organisations and Partners:

The Community Brain uses the widest range of the arts, local history, social enterprise and community-led regeneration in order to give places renewed importance and pride. We help people to imagine and command their own story – instead of following those written for them by others. https://www.thecommunitybrain.org/

The Grange supports people with learning disabilities to lead independent and fulfilling lives. It wants to lead the way as provider of choice for people with learning disabilities, inspiring our local and wider communities. www.grangecentre.org.uk

Hogsmill Community Garden is a wild-life-friendly garden run by volunteers to offer local people the opportunity to come together to enjoy the physical and psychological benefits of working with others outdoors, doing something productive.

Kingston’s Stylophone Orchestra Conceived with the help of legendary producer Tony Visconti, the Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra is the brainchild of the university’s Senior Music Lecturer Dr. Leah Kardos and features Music Tech students past and present playing an array of stylophones. @styloorch

Current members: Ershad Alamgir, Louis Bartell, Harry Green, Leah Kardos, Sydney Kaster, George Reid, Cian Ryan-Morgan, Arte Spyropoulou, Estelle Taylor-Noel, Isabella van Elferen, Zuzanna Wężyk. Musical director: Leah Kardos.

The NewBridge Project is an artist-led community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. It supports artists, curators and communities through providing space for creative practice, curatorial opportunities and an artist-led programme of exhibitions, commissions, artist development and events. The NewBridge Project was established in 2010 to provide exchange and support for communities of artists and a space where artists and local communities can come together to work, learn and socialise. Our programme aims to deliver a relevant programme of exhibitions, performances, screenings, educational talks, workshops and bookshop events in consultation with our artist members. This creates a programme that reflects the diversity of contemporary art practice, is responsive to the environment within which it exists, that builds solidarity, and that places community-centred, experimental, collaborative and socially conscious programming at its heart. https://thenewbridgeproject.com/

The Networked Condition: Environmental Impacts of Digital Cultural Production is an ongoing exploration of the often-hidden environmental impact of the creation and delivery of artworks using digital technology. This research-led project is a collaboration between Abandon Normal Devices, Arts Catalyst and Fast Familiar as part of The Accelerator Programme (led by Julie’s Bicycle and Arts Council England). Conversations with artists, researchers and organisations has resulted in a series of case studies mapping aspects of and approaches to the creation, manufacture, distribution and disposal involved in digital cultural production. These case studies provide a window into various creative practices which critically engage with the social, ethical and environmental implications of these processes and cycles — as well as the vast and often invisible infrastructures of which they are a part. This research sits alongside practical tools including a digital carbon calculator, developed to help artists and producers working in the fields of digital art and creative media to better understand the carbon footprint of the generation and distribution of their artworks.

Platform London is an interdisciplinary London-based art and campaigning collective founded in 1983 that creates projects with social justice and environmental justice themes. They combine art, activism, education and research in one organisation. This approach enables us to create unique projects driven by the need for social and ecological justice. Platform’s current campaigns focus on the social, economic and environmental impacts of the global oil industry. Our pioneering education courses, exhibitions, art events and book projects promote radical new ideas that inspire change. How we work is important to us. We operate through collective decision-making. Our team includes campaigners, artists and researchers who act together and with networks to achieve long-term, systemic goals. Everyone in Platform is committed to our core values of justice, solidarity, creativity and democracy. https://platformlondon.org/

The Save the World Club was established in 1985 to empower the community to initiate environmental activities to ensure a sustainable future for all. Our award winning mosaic murals enhance our Borough using recycled tiles, collaborating with the local community since our inception. The charity (registered in 2002, no. 1096271) saves both items and foodstuffs from landfill or incineration and keep it all circulating through upcycling, redistribution and public art. This food gets donated to vulnerable populations and families. https://www.savetheworldclub.org/

Writers’ Kingston is Kingston University’s literary cultural institute dedicated to creative writing in all its forms, with an annual programme of events from talks to workshops and festivals. https://www.writerskingston.com/

Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline is commissioned by Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University.

Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is one of the leading university galleries and commissioning venues in the UK, working with artists, designers, students, academics and members of the local community to encourage creativity, learning, research and innovation.

Kingston University London is a public research university located within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in South West London, England. Its roots go back to the Kingston Technical Institute, founded in 1899.

Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline is supported by Arts Council England.