The first session of the _Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The British East India Company on Trial_ heard evidence on the ‘Company Raj’: the rule of the East India Company and the British Crown in South Asia and elsewhere. This era served as the launching pad for colonial crimes against ecologies and cultures around the world.
Witnesses James Vaughn and Andy Rowell testified to the continuation of the practices established by the Crown-Company alliance by numerous corporations and states working in concert.
The Advocate-Prosecutor, Swati Srivastava, presented expert evidence on the legal, institutional, policy and ideological factors that have enabled corporate-state alliances in the past and present to perpetuate crimes against ecologies and communities globally.
Judges: Radha D’Souza (chair); Sharon H. Venne, Ramón Vera-Herrera. Clerk: Jonas Staal.
_CICC_ is a project by Radha D’Souza (academic, writer, lawyer and activist) and Jonas Staal (artist and propaganda researcher). It stages public hearings which address crimes of the past, present and future, reflecting how states and corporations have intergenerational impacts on ecologies and communities. To learn more, visit https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/court-for-intergenerational-climate-crimes-cicc/.
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_CICC: The British East India Company on Trial_ was commissioned and produced by Serpentine Ecologies, in partnership with Framer Framed, Amsterdam (long term partner), Law Development & Conflict Research Group, CREAM, Ambika P3, University of Westminster, Creative Scotland, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and Create Ireland. Special thanks to Mondriaan Fund and Jessica Sweidan. Curated and produced by Lucia Pietroiusti, Daisy Gould and Isobel Peyton-Jones.
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