Kooj Chuhan
Cultural Creatives
Also working within:
Community Organisers
Decolonising Movements & Diasporas
Also working within:
Community Organisers
Decolonising Movements & Diasporas
Based: Manchester
Organisation:
Crossing Footprints and Virtual Migrants
Kooj is a digital artist, filmmaker, creative producer, director of Crossing Footprints, consultant for Oldham Libraries and a member of Manchester Art Gallery’s Climate Justice Group. He founded artist collective, Virtual Migrants, which delivered the ‘Climate Justice, Science and Refugees’ project and ‘Continent Chop Chop’ trans-media performance. Kooj created the ‘Buy This’ installation of refugee voices, the interactive climate piece ‘Chamada From Chico Mendes’ and ‘Footprint Modulation’ climate migration exhibition. Crossing Footprints have been running Climate Connections in Oldham strengthening the voice of migrant and low income communities. We facilitate creative climate activism within groups such as Ayna Bangladeshi theatre and African arts group Amani Creatives.
“We are connected with climate through every facet of our lives, crossing over with sectors of health, industry, austerity, wars and conflict, over-consumption and consumerism, construction, transport, colonial exploitation, farming, global injustice, and so on. When are we going to represent this properly in a way that includes everybody? And when are we going to recognise the racial exclusion of people who haven’t caused the problem but who suffer the worst consequences? Most of all, who should pay for the damage - taxpayers or the companies and nations most at fault?”