2025 RESIDENCIES - Clara Jo

Research Areas
Environmental storytelling
Ocean Governance
Indigenous knowledge

About the Artist



Clara’s practice spans film, installation, and research-based collaboration. She is particularly interested in how communities understand, adapt to, and care for their environments—and how these understandings are represented or misrepresented on a global scale. With a background in political image production and documentary methodologies, Clara works to center voices and perspectives often excluded from climate discourse.

During her three-month stay in Fiji, Clara collaborated with the Pacific Blue Foundation and communities on Beqa Island. She joined traditional knowledge holders and conservation practitioners in their daily work—participating in mangrove replanting, reef monitoring, and oral history documentation. Her research focused on the embodied knowledge practices of ocean governance, and how these can be represented in visual and narrative forms that resist extractive storytelling. Her project asks: How can we reimagine the role of art in reshaping narratives of vulnerability and resilience, especially in the face of colonial legacies and environmental degradation?

The Artists Project during The Residency

Art Works (Example)

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Art Works (Example)

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