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Exhibition Activations

Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Extended exhibition program, 19 Nov 2026–29 Jan 2027

TOPIC CONTENT:

The engagement with climate justice reveals a complex field of perspectives across multiple temporalities, geographies, and forms of knowledge. In this context, environmental destruction is entangled with economic interests, the uneven distribution of risks and responsibilities, colonial continuities, imperialist power relations, and geological deep time.

The exhibition Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice moves between two conceptions of justice. One that is produced and negotiated in courtrooms through scientific and legal evidence, data, and visual investigations, and another that understands justice as an unfinished, collective process, grounded in Indigenous knowledge, queer ecology, multispecies perspectives, and activism. Through a dialogue between artistic practices and scientific experts in the field of climate litigation, the exhibition opens up a space between evidence and uncertainty, accusation and repair, institutional accountability and collective imagination.

From November till end of January the exhibition ‘Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice’ gets activated by an extended program.

Find all details by scrolling down below.

With contributions by: adO/Aptive, Beatrice Tulagan, Eline Benjaminsen, Elias Kimaiyo, Forensic Architecture, Jonas Staal, Paolo Cirio, Prin Rodriguez, Radha D’Souza, Valentino Skarwan

Curators: Adriano Vinca, Camille Belmin, Elisabeth Falkensteiner

Expert and scientific support: Inga Menke, Joy Reyes, Krishna Ariola, Michaela Krömer, Nicholas Petkov

workshop

19 Nov 2026, 14:00

Densities of Time

On Speculative Climate Futures

with Beatrice Tulagan. Part of the exhibition ‘Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice’

Future on Trial

Please register for this workshop via mail to:

ail@uni-ak.ac.at

Accompanying Beatrice Tulagan’s installation What Happens Next? , this workshop asks us about what we do with the remaining time it takes to win the world.

What world are we building as future ancestors?

How can the artifacts we leave behind tell the stories of our wildest dreams about climate justice?

What is there to do then but speculate – and fight – for alternative futures and timelines?

The event is both a meditation on time and endurance and a hands-on workshop on what we leave behind as we lurch towards the future. There will be a short discussion to frame the session led by the artist followed by a materials workshop where we’ll get to work with our hands and practice collective speculation.

General material for the workshop is provided, but you are free to bring children’s clay, coloring materials, bond paper, hand ties, ribbons, sticks or similar.  

In many human cosmologies, time is a grand circle, eternally cycling between the past, present, and future. In others, time is an arc, a narrative plot that marches from a momentous beginning towards an apocalyptic end. In the Filipino view, meanwhile, time is perpetually attached to human flourishing. In Tagalog and many other Philippine languages, the word panahon translates to both ‘time’ and 'season.’ When something is described as ‘napapanahon’ – what is timely or opportune – time becomes indelibly human. In his essay ‘Densities of Time,’ Resil B. Mojares writes, ‘Native time was not homogenous, abstract, divided into fixed and precise units. It was ‘human’ time, reckoned in relation to the performance of life-sustaining activities and guided by the signs of an environment that was concrete, particular, and changing.’ 

Turning time on its head, climate injustice exists in its own temporal plane. In making sense of climate-related loss, time flows backwards, forwards, and back again. Sins in the past committed through the collusion of corrupt political dynasties and the fossil fuel industry endanger the unwritten futures of young people and the variety of presents outside the struggle otherwise available for many climate activists.

About Beatrice Tulagan:

Beatrice Tulagan is a Filipina artist, climate justice organizer, and the founder of tala storytelling collective. She explores the personal as inevitably political amidst the climate crisis, social shocks, and power grabs, suggesting tender wayfindings and collective endurance. Her artistic and movement practice weaves poetry, sound, performance, participatory installations, and experience design.

exhibition

19 Nov 2026, 16:00

Guided Tour: Future on Trial

Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Guided tour with curator Camille Belmin

The engagement with climate justice reveals a complex field of perspectives across multiple temporalities, geographies, and forms of knowledge. In this context, environmental destruction is entangled with economic interests, the uneven distribution of risks and responsibilities, colonial continuities, imperialist power relations, and geological deep time.

The exhibition Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice moves between two conceptions of justice. One that is produced and negotiated in courtrooms through scientific and legal evidence, data, and visual investigations, and another that understands justice as an unfinished, collective process, grounded in Indigenous knowledge, queer ecology, multispecies perspectives, and activism.

Through a dialogue between artistic practices and scientific experts in the field of climate litigation, the exhibition opens up a space between evidence and uncertainty, accusation and repair, institutional accountability and collective imagination.

With contributions by:

adO/Aptive, Beatrice Tulagan, Eline Benjaminsen, Elias Kimaiyo, Forensic Architecture, Jonas Staal, Paolo Cirio, Prin Rodriguez, Radha D’Souza, Valentino Skarwan

Curators: Adriano Vinca, Camille Belmin, Elisabeth Falkensteiner

Expert and scientific support: Inga Menke, Joy Reyes, Krishna Ariola, Michaela Krömer, Nicholas Petkov

With support from the European Geoscience Union, the Norwegian Embassy Vienna, and Stadt Wien Kultur

Preview Image: Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, Comrades Against Extinction, 2022. Produced by Helsinki Festival. Photo: Jonas Staal

exhibition

02 Dec 2026, 16:00

Guided Tour: Future on Trial

Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Guided tour with curator Elisabeth Falkensteiner

The engagement with climate justice reveals a complex field of perspectives across multiple temporalities, geographies, and forms of knowledge. In this context, environmental destruction is entangled with economic interests, the uneven distribution of risks and responsibilities, colonial continuities, imperialist power relations, and geological deep time.

The exhibition Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice moves between two conceptions of justice. One that is produced and negotiated in courtrooms through scientific and legal evidence, data, and visual investigations, and another that understands justice as an unfinished, collective process, grounded in Indigenous knowledge, queer ecology, multispecies perspectives, and activism.

Through a dialogue between artistic practices and scientific experts in the field of climate litigation, the exhibition opens up a space between evidence and uncertainty, accusation and repair, institutional accountability and collective imagination.

With contributions by:

adO/Aptive, Beatrice Tulagan, Eline Benjaminsen, Elias Kimaiyo, Forensic Architecture, Jonas Staal, Paolo Cirio, Prin Rodriguez, Radha D’Souza, Valentino Skarwan

Curators: Adriano Vinca, Camille Belmin, Elisabeth Falkensteiner

Expert and scientific support: Inga Menke, Joy Reyes, Krishna Ariola, Michaela Krömer, Nicholas Petkov

With support from the European Geoscience Union, the Norwegian Embassy Vienna, and Stadt Wien Kultur

Preview Image: Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, Comrades Against Extinction, 2022. Produced by Helsinki Festival. Photo: Jonas Staal

discussion

07 Dec 2026, 18:00

How to Collide?

On the Frictions, Encounters and Possibilities for Interdisciplinary Collaboration

with Jonas Staal and Radha D’Souza

Jonas Staal and Radha D’Souza are reflecting on their collaborative project Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC), exploring the intersections of art, activism, law, and political organisation. Conceived as an alternative tribunal, the project addresses the historical and ongoing responsibilities of states and corporations for colonial exploitation and ecological destruction. By challenging established notions of justice, accountability, and political representation, the CICC proposes alternative forms of justice that address climate crimes and their intergenerational consequences.

Drawing on their collaboration, Staal and D’Souza will also discuss broader questions of interdisciplinarity: How do artistic, legal, and activist practices intersect, and what forms of knowledge emerge through these encounters? How can different methodologies, languages, and epistemologies become productive forces for critical inquiry and collective knowledge production? The conversation will consider the possibilities and challenges of working across disciplinary boundaries, and how such collaborations can open up alternative ways of thinking, organising, and acting together.

This talk is part of the exhibition ‘Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice’. The discussed project resonates with the exhibition’s themes of climate justice and alternative forms of political organisation, demonstrating how artistic practice can move beyond representation to create spaces for collective action and the imagination and enactment of more just futures.

The event is also part of AIL’s special program 'Extending Intersections’ which follows the the aim to support colleagues and students of the University of Applied Arts Vienna with their interdisciplinary work, projects and endeavours.

About the series ‘How to Collide’:

In this discursive series, the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL) and departments of the University of Applied Arts Vienna bring together (international) artists, researchers, and scholars to explore the dynamics of interdisciplinary collaboration. Moving between artistic practice, research, and theory, the conversations examine the encounters, frictions, and unexpected connections that emerge when different disciplines, methods, and forms of knowledge meet.

exhibition

10 Dec 2026, 16:00

Guided Tour: Future on Trial

Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Guided tour with curator Elisabeth Falkensteiner

The engagement with climate justice reveals a complex field of perspectives across multiple temporalities, geographies, and forms of knowledge. In this context, environmental destruction is entangled with economic interests, the uneven distribution of risks and responsibilities, colonial continuities, imperialist power relations, and geological deep time.

The exhibition Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice moves between two conceptions of justice. One that is produced and negotiated in courtrooms through scientific and legal evidence, data, and visual investigations, and another that understands justice as an unfinished, collective process, grounded in Indigenous knowledge, queer ecology, multispecies perspectives, and activism.

Through a dialogue between artistic practices and scientific experts in the field of climate litigation, the exhibition opens up a space between evidence and uncertainty, accusation and repair, institutional accountability and collective imagination.

With contributions by:

adO/Aptive, Beatrice Tulagan, Eline Benjaminsen, Elias Kimaiyo, Forensic Architecture, Jonas Staal, Paolo Cirio, Prin Rodriguez, Radha D’Souza, Valentino Skarwan

Curators: Adriano Vinca, Camille Belmin, Elisabeth Falkensteiner

Expert and scientific support: Inga Menke, Joy Reyes, Krishna Ariola, Michaela Krömer, Nicholas Petkov

With support from the European Geoscience Union, the Norwegian Embassy Vienna, and Stadt Wien Kultur

Preview Image: Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, Comrades Against Extinction, 2022. Produced by Helsinki Festival. Photo: Jonas Staal

exhibition

15 Jan 2027, 16:00

Guided Tour: Future on Trial

Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Guided tour with curator Adriano Vinca

The engagement with climate justice reveals a complex field of perspectives across multiple temporalities, geographies, and forms of knowledge. In this context, environmental destruction is entangled with economic interests, the uneven distribution of risks and responsibilities, colonial continuities, imperialist power relations, and geological deep time.

The exhibition Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice moves between two conceptions of justice. One that is produced and negotiated in courtrooms through scientific and legal evidence, data, and visual investigations, and another that understands justice as an unfinished, collective process, grounded in Indigenous knowledge, queer ecology, multispecies perspectives, and activism.

Through a dialogue between artistic practices and scientific experts in the field of climate litigation, the exhibition opens up a space between evidence and uncertainty, accusation and repair, institutional accountability and collective imagination.

With contributions by:

adO/Aptive, Beatrice Tulagan, Eline Benjaminsen, Elias Kimaiyo, Forensic Architecture, Jonas Staal, Paolo Cirio, Prin Rodriguez, Radha D’Souza, Valentino Skarwan

Curators: Adriano Vinca, Camille Belmin, Elisabeth Falkensteiner

Expert and scientific support: Inga Menke, Joy Reyes, Krishna Ariola, Michaela Krömer, Nicholas Petkov

With support from the European Geoscience Union, the Norwegian Embassy Vienna, and Stadt Wien Kultur

Preview Image: Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, Comrades Against Extinction, 2022. Produced by Helsinki Festival. Photo: Jonas Staal

gathering

21 Jan 2027, 16:00

Climate Litigation Summit

Save the date!

Part of the exhibition Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice (on view till 29 Jan 2027).

The Climate Litigation Summit is a day of gathering for activists/artivist groups based in Vienna with a focus on environmental justice involved in local and global fights. It will be structured around several workshops organized by activists to share knowledge and experience on the challenges faced, strategies to face repression, and how to use, bypass, or hack legal or institutional means. We will also be joined by lawyer Michaela Krömer on why and how to start climate legal actions in Austria.

exhibition

22 Jan 2027, 16:00

Guided Tour: Future on Trial

Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Guided tour with curator Camille Belmin

The engagement with climate justice reveals a complex field of perspectives across multiple temporalities, geographies, and forms of knowledge. In this context, environmental destruction is entangled with economic interests, the uneven distribution of risks and responsibilities, colonial continuities, imperialist power relations, and geological deep time.

The exhibition Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice moves between two conceptions of justice. One that is produced and negotiated in courtrooms through scientific and legal evidence, data, and visual investigations, and another that understands justice as an unfinished, collective process, grounded in Indigenous knowledge, queer ecology, multispecies perspectives, and activism.

Through a dialogue between artistic practices and scientific experts in the field of climate litigation, the exhibition opens up a space between evidence and uncertainty, accusation and repair, institutional accountability and collective imagination.

With contributions by:

adO/Aptive, Beatrice Tulagan, Eline Benjaminsen, Elias Kimaiyo, Forensic Architecture, Jonas Staal, Paolo Cirio, Prin Rodriguez, Radha D’Souza, Valentino Skarwan

Curators: Adriano Vinca, Camille Belmin, Elisabeth Falkensteiner

Expert and scientific support: Inga Menke, Joy Reyes, Krishna Ariola, Michaela Krömer, Nicholas Petkov

With support from the European Geoscience Union, the Norwegian Embassy Vienna, and Stadt Wien Kultur

Preview Image: Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, Comrades Against Extinction, 2022. Produced by Helsinki Festival. Photo: Jonas Staal

exhibition

29 Jan 2027, 16:00

Guided Tour: Future on Trial

Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

Guided tour with curator Camille Belmin and Adriano Vinca

The engagement with climate justice reveals a complex field of perspectives across multiple temporalities, geographies, and forms of knowledge. In this context, environmental destruction is entangled with economic interests, the uneven distribution of risks and responsibilities, colonial continuities, imperialist power relations, and geological deep time.

The exhibition Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice moves between two conceptions of justice. One that is produced and negotiated in courtrooms through scientific and legal evidence, data, and visual investigations, and another that understands justice as an unfinished, collective process, grounded in Indigenous knowledge, queer ecology, multispecies perspectives, and activism.

Through a dialogue between artistic practices and scientific experts in the field of climate litigation, the exhibition opens up a space between evidence and uncertainty, accusation and repair, institutional accountability and collective imagination.

With contributions by:

adO/Aptive, Beatrice Tulagan, Eline Benjaminsen, Elias Kimaiyo, Forensic Architecture, Jonas Staal, Paolo Cirio, Prin Rodriguez, Radha D’Souza, Valentino Skarwan

Curators: Adriano Vinca, Camille Belmin, Elisabeth Falkensteiner

Expert and scientific support: Inga Menke, Joy Reyes, Krishna Ariola, Michaela Krömer, Nicholas Petkov

With support from the European Geoscience Union, the Norwegian Embassy Vienna, and Stadt Wien Kultur

Preview Image: Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, Comrades Against Extinction, 2022. Produced by Helsinki Festival. Photo: Jonas Staal