Ecological Frictions and Borderless Futures: Art and Activism on a Sailing Ship

In November 2021, following the twenty-sixth United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow, environmental scientists, activists, and leaders of nations were disappointed to learn that renewed commitments to accelerate decarbonization had failed to plan for sufficient support for vulnerable nations or a phase-out of coal dependency to limit global temperature rise. The archipelagic Republic of Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most-populous nation with the second-longest coastline and third-largest rainforest, went largely unmentioned in English-language news coverage of COP26 talks, even though Indonesia’s most significant sources of carbon emissions, deforestation and coal production, are directly caused by the cheap fuel demands...