Abstract
The 2 year curatorial research project and art exhibition, SALT. CLAY. ROCK. received partial funding through the Zero Fund program of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. By accepting the grant, we agreed to take part in the foundation’s initiative to explore climate-neutral cultural production, along with practices of environmental sustainability and climate-friendly alternatives within the cultural sector.
As part of the funding requirements, we—the SALT. CLAY. ROCK. working group—also committed to preparing a guideline for climate-neutral production, based on our experiences, at the end of the project. The following is a collection of our thoughts and reflections gathered along the way. We felt that writing a straightforward guideline would neither reflect our actual approach nor be particularly useful for readers. Understanding how to carry out carbon accounting involves engaging with a set of concepts and strategies that did not seem to us to be as straightforward as guideline. Thus, what follows are a series of discussions on climate neutrality, along with thoughts and questions inspired by the climate-neutral production process. To this, we have then added a logbook documenting our efforts to realize a two-year, transnational curatorial and artistic research project, which included site-based productions in rural areas of Hungary and Germany and a final exhibition in Berlin.
Note. I've uploaded only the English Version of the logbook.