This workshop approaches exposure as a documentary practice that has been foundational to certain forms of environmental thinking, as well as counter-documentation practices that disclose the relation between the unevenness of environmental exposure and histories of colonialism, extraction, imperialism, and racism.

Exploring exposure as a way of making sense of one’s surroundings, this workshop invites scholars, artist researchers, and members of various collectives to think through the potentials and limits of exposure as a form of environmental knowledge, a mode of collective action, and its relation to how we understand and write history in the present.