CIIP Speaker Series - Susan Schuppli: Cold Cases

​The Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics (CIIP) research group is pleased to invite you to a talk by Susan Schuppli on Wednesday 11 March, 11:00-12:00, Winchester School of Art, Westside Lecture Theatre and online.

​Cold Cases

​COLD CASES advances a materialist account of climate justice grounded in the evidentiary and relational force of ice. Drawing on legal theory, media and sound studies, investigative aesthetics, and Earth jurisprudence, I argue that ice is not simply a signal of climate change, but an active material witness that records harm and issues political claims and calls to action. Glaciers, permafrost, and polar archives function as thermal records of extraction, colonial occupation, and environmental violence, exposing how liberal, human-centered legal frameworks have enabled dispossession while failing to register environmental and distributed forms of harm. By foregrounding the ways in which ice is relational, COLD CASES challenges settler-colonial regimes of evidence and responsibility, and rethinks climate justice from the standpoint of a rapidly warming cryosphere. 

​bio

​SUSAN SCHUPPLI is an artist and researcher based in the UK, whose work is situated at the intersections between environmental struggles, climate science, and affected communities with a specific focus on the cryosphere. Investigations span legal analysis and public advocacy as well as theoretical reflection and creative exploration in order to understand how the transformations brought about by global burning are generating new forms of evidence. She is Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths as well as a Fellow and Board Chair of Forensic Architecture. https://susanschuppli.com/

​Full Spring Speaker Series: https://criticalinfrastructures.net/events/ciip-spring-speaker-series-2026/