Tereza Sikorová

2.31 Global Home Story (Paper)

Tereza Sikorová – Department of Art Education, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Marta Kovářová – Department of Art Education, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Abstract:

Marta is an artist, musician and teacher who decided to present her father’s idea of saving the planet to the world. She was burdened by environmental grief and wanted to investigate why the rules of the world could not work as her physicist father suggested. When academic articles and letters to politicians failed to provoke the expected reactions, she decided to change her strategy and make a playful documentary with her father. The documentary portrays the unusual creative relationship between a scientist father and an artist daughter and their journey with the idea of a Global Carbon Tax and 100% Dividend from the kitchen to the climate summit. The film was five years in the making and the events associated with it at festivals, conferences and schools around the world are still vibrant. The paper is conceived as a case study from the birth of a crazy home-grown participatory science-art-education-activist project to appearances at the European Parliament and the COP28 climate conference in Dubai. The project will be presented by the film’s director Marta Kovářová and cinematographer and production assistant Tereza Sikorová. Both of them work at the Department of Art Education at the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University in Brno.