MEDIA + WRITING
PODCASTS + INTERVIEWS
17 APRIL 2023 MONTEZ PRESS live broadcast from National Gallery of Victoria’s MELBOURNE NOW exhibition. Jen Rae and Claire G. Coleman in conversation with Recess curator Olivia Koh.
13 FEB 2022 ABC RADIO NATIONAL Philosopher Zone: Art & Climate, Jen interviewed by David Rutledge
11 AUG 2021 CREATIVE RESPONDERS Jen Rae in conversation with Scotia Monkivitch
21 JUNE 2021 CONSCIENT PODCAST: Jen Rae (e41rae)
10 APRIL 2020 iHEART RADIO PODCAST (re-broadcast): Raising the Bar: Who needs artists in a climate crisis?
2 MAR 2020 DANCEHOUSE MELBOURNE: (In)visible Futures: Norah Zuniga-Shaw, Jen Rae, Dr Chris Ryan & Angharad Wynne-Jones
21 OCT 2019 ARTBREAKER PODCAST: Jen Rae | Recipe for Disaster - On Food In/Security
WRITING
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Rae, Jen. (2023). When All Hell Breaks Loose Kindness is a Survival Skill. Dress Rehearsals for the Apocalypse, Fast Fashun: Melbourne.
Lammes, Sybille, Kat Jungnickel, Larissa Hjorth, and Jen Rae, eds. “Failurists – When Things Go Awry.” Institute of Network Cultures, April 5, 2023. https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/failurists-when-things-go-arwy/.
Coleman, C.G., Rae, J. (2022). Reworlding in the endtimes in the everywhen. In #Failurists: Reflections on and critical interventions in the field. (Eds. L. Hjorth, K. Jungnickel, S. Lammes and J. Rae). -Institute of Networked Cultures. https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/failurists-when-things-go-arwy/
Rae, J. (2022). The Listening Agent. Dispatch from the Future. Assembly for the Future by Alex Kelly and David Pledger.
Rae, J. (2022). The Hard Way: A bedtime story for grown-ups. Dispatch from the Future. Assembly for the Future by Alex Kelly and David Pledger.
Rae, J. (2021). Unfinished Business. In the Time of Refuge: A collection of writings and reflections on art, disaster and communities. (Eds. D. Pledger and N. Papastergiadis). Arts House: Melbourne.
Rae, J. (2021). Fertile Ground. Centre for Contemporary Photography. [exhibition essay, ‘Fertile Ground’ exhibition curated by Sarah Bond and Olivia Poloni}
PUBLIC SPEAKING | LECTURES | PANELS
25 OCT 2023 Keynote: Reorienting practice: The role of artists in the climate adaptation emergency, Centre for Visual Cultures, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
17 OCT 2023 Keynote: The Role of Culture and the Arts in the Climate Emergency, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
11 OCT 2023 Foreshore Event: Everything Exists in Darkness with Claire G. Coleman and Kamarra Bell-Wykes, Branscombe House, Richmond, B.C., Canada
4 OCT 2023 Keynote: Reworlding in the Everywhen with Claire G. Coleman, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
1 JUNE 2023 Keynote: Reorienting practice: The role of artists in the climate adaptation emergency, SCALE/LeSAUT, Canada (online)
10 JULY 2022 Curators talk: Centre for Reworlding presents RESURGENCE with Claire G. Coleman and Jake Treacy, Incinerator Art Gallery, Aberfeldie, VIC.
8 JULY 2022 Performance Studies International (Psi 27): Hunger. ‘We’ve never done this before: creative methodologies to food justice’.
6 JULY 2022 Emergency Management Conference‘Playing in the dark: Strengthening community preparedness through creativity and diverse groups working together’ with Christine Drummond, City of Melbourne.
30 JUNE 2022 NATIONAL SUMMIT 2022: From Risk to Resilience- Australia’s Call to Action, Sydney, NSW, Australia. ‘Interpreting the word: Creativity in dealing with disasters’, [keynote]
23 JUNE 2022 Centre for Critical and Creative Writing 2022 Symposium – Wicked Problems and Speculative Futures: Writing the Anthropocene. REFUGIUM: Reworlding in a hostile future. (Begins at 35:03). With Claire. G. Coleman.
1 MAY 2022 Arts Leadership in conversation with Claire G. Coleman, Masters Arts Leadership, National Institute of Dramatic Art
26 FEB 2022 CLIMARTE’s WHY A CALL FOR ART? FORUM with Professors Patricia Piccinini and Brian Martin facilitated by Dr Lara Stevens. Capitol Theatre, Melbourne.
30 SEP 2021 The Big Local Arts and Climate Expo: Panel Discussion with Gabrielle de Vietri, Jen Rae, Claire G. Coleman and Matt Wicking. Curated by Tenfingerz for Melbourne Fringe and the City of Yarra.
11 AUG 2021 APAM: Art as Activism (discussion panel with Gabrielle de Vietri, Alex Kelly, Tara Moses and Airileke Ingram)
5 JUN 2021 Making it in Moreland - The Environmental Art Space: Creatives responding to climate change (panel moderator)
31 JAN 2021 MPAVILION: Art as action: ecology, resilience & sustainability (panel speaker w/ Bronwyn Johnson - CLIMARTE, Debbie Symons, Katie West and Jasmine Targett)
28 NOV 2020 CLIMATHON: Belgrade, keynote https://climathon.climate-kic.org/Belgrade
22 OCT 2020 Simon Fraser University, Semester in Dialogue - The Department of Living, lecture and workshop
26 MAY 2020 University of Minnesota, Art and the Climate Emergency, lecture
2 MAR 2020 DANCEHOUSE | [In]visible Futures: with Norah Zuniga-Shaw, Jen Rae, Dr Chris Ryan moderated by Angharad Wynne-Jones, What role do artists play in devising future socially responsive artistic practices focused on a collective sense of sustainability?
5 DEC 2019 RAISING THE BAR MELBOURNE. To listen: Jen Rae: Who needs artists in a climate crisis?
13 SEP 2019 The Role of Artists in the Climate Emergency, keynote, Concordia, University
OTHER THINGS IN THE NEWS and ONLINE
DEC 2022 Lara Stevens, Sink or Swim: Performing the Iniquities of the Climate Crisis, Critical Stages: IATC Journal, Issue26.
OCT 2021 Gordon Hall, ASM and Dr Faye Bendrups, Innovation hiding in plain sight: volunteer-driven case studies, Australian Journal of Emergency Management Volume 36 No. 4 October 2021.
21 NOV 2019 Creative Community and Disaster Resilience, Naomi Boyde, Reporting for the DESIS Lab
30 SEP 2019 Creating Into the Future: Dr. Jen Rae Examines Artists’ Role in Climate Crisis, Pandora Wotton in McGill Daily