Futurism

Fire or Flood Jacket and Survival Suit

Futurism exhibition at CLIMATE WEEK NYC
FOREST FOR TREES COLLECTIVE, 7B Nolan Park Governors Island, New York City, NY 10004

September 6 – October 12, 2025

In an age marked by ecological uncertainty, Futurism is both a proposition and a provocation: What futures can we imagine when we root our visions in justice—for land, for more-than-human life, and for one another?

Futurism unfolds across temporal thresholds—utopia, near-future realities, and post-collapse improvisations. The works in this exhibition span imagined ecotopias and hybrid landscapes, where technology merges with ancestral knowledge, and resilience is cultivated not as a buzzword but as a relational ethic. Drawing from traditions of Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurity, eco-surrealism, and survivalist poetics, the artists conjure futures that are messy, mutant, and alive with possibility.

Rather than retreating from ecological grief, Futurism makes space to metabolize it—transforming despair into compost for action and dreaming. Here, the speculative is not escapist. Futurism asks: How do we live after the end of the world as we know it? And what if the answer is already growing in the cracks?

Arists: Ana Anu, Andrea Coronil, Kaden Bard Dawson, Ramon Parish, Emily Reyes, Yali Romagoza, Dawn Stetzel