Environmental Justice through Art

What happens when art meets environmental justice? Explore this question through a cultural studies analysis of Irish artist's Michele Horrigan's ongoing arts-based research project Stigma Damages. In collaboration with the artist, Tilburg University hosted an exhibition of Stigma Damages in the spring of 2025. This exhibit uses art to explore the environmental impacts of a material that we all use every day: aluminium. It's in bicycles, Internet cabling, and electronics. We even cook with it. Yet where does it come from? And how does the process of making aluminium products affect the environment? How can art and culture offer new perspectives on these seemingly simple questions? Watch the video to learn more!