Fault Lines: Art in a City Built on Extraction
About this Event
Calgary is a city shaped by extraction. Oil, land, labour, capital, and rapid expansion have all left visible and invisible marks on the urban landscape. But as ecological instability intensifies, artists and cultural workers are increasingly asking what it means to create within systems built on consumption, displacement, and environmental contradiction.
This panel explores the intersections between ecology, public art, climate anxiety, and civic responsibility. How can art make visible the systems that cities are often designed to obscure? What does it mean to create work that responds to extraction while existing inside economies dependent on it? And how might artists imagine new relationships between land, infrastructure, community, and regeneration?
Bringing together artists, environmental organizers, and urban thinkers, Fault Lines examines public art not only as reflection, but as a potential vehicle for ecological imagination and collective action.
Moderator: Eman Safadi
Speaker 1: Peter Hemminger
Speaker 2: Daniel Saenz
Speaker 3: TBA
Speaker 4: TBA
BUMP Festival is taking place from August 3rd to August 17th 2026. Get the full conference schedule and information on our website: https://yycbump.ca/festival/conference/
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