Introducing ‘A World of Water’ by John Kenneth Paranada, Curator of Art and Climate Change at the Sainsbury Centre

A day at the seaside or rain at Wimbledon. So much of our shared experience of the British summer involves water. But what would the world be like without water, or more critically, without our seas and oceans and all the lifeforce within it?

A World of Water is part of a six-month season of interlinked exhibitions and events that explore the question Can the Seas Survive Us? and runs until 3 August.

Hear about the exhibition from its curator, John Kenneth Paranada, Curator of Art and Climate Change at the Sainsbury Centre.

John Kenneth Paranada (born 22 September 1988) is a British-Filipino curator, writer, and researcher working at the intersection of contemporary art, climate change, and ecological thinking. He is the inaugural Curator of Art and Climate Change at the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, and a researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. His practice draws on environmental humanities, Indigenous knowledge systems, and critical museology.

Paranada holds a BA in Philippine Studies from De La Salle University, an MA in Museum Studies from the University of the Philippines Diliman, and completed Art and Politics: Philosophy of Nature at Sciences Po (Paris), Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and Goldsmiths, University of London. Recent exhibitions include Sediment Spirit, Towards the Weird Heart of Things, Coastal Kin, Roots of Resilience, and A World of Water. He is an EPIC Fellow (AAMC, 2023), Ruffer Grant recipient (2024), and has spoken at CIMAM, AAMC, UNESCO, and leading universities. For more information, see his Wikipedia profile and ORCID record.

Filming and editing: Kate Wolstenholme