The weather gets angrier all the time. Pollution makes the air warmer, solar flares and shifting poles have their effect. Tornadoes, drought and hurricanes do billions of dollars of damage. Take away the dunes and build your home right up to the water's edge. People die because of poor planning. Businesses go under. Galleries and artists in New York City under four feet of water. What can an artist say that will make a difference? Has the tipping point come? Do we run for higher ground now or later? Keep calm and create. Artists start movements. Art provokes people to action. Art can create a new way of seeing- a future that respects nature, that works with nature, that stands in awe of nature. But, the future has no guarantees. Take it one day at a time. This is what Weathering Art is attempting.
Curated by Dan Osterman, Lisa Lunskaya Gordon, Mary Ann Kearns, Naoe Suzuke, June Krinsky-Rudder.
John Craig Freeman, Flotsam & Jetsam. Augmented reality public art, Singapore and Lowell, 2013.
The water is rising. What artists have to say about it.
Reception, discussion, and related events, Sun May 19th, 12pm.
Rick Breault's field recordings require listening, and hearing relationships between sounds that take on a musical nature.
Lydia Eccle'sCollapse combines video with photo and text to record individual reactions to catastrophic warnings.
John Craig Freeman's augmented reality piece is a meta-comentary on global warming, rising sea levels and plastic debris fields.
Constance Jacobson's experimental prints Float and Tide Rising explore the intimate connections between our lives and the sea.
Bonnie Kane, an artist, musician, and former resident of Rockaway Beach, is dealing with the aftermath of loosing her house.
Denise Manseau's work investigates the nature of constantly changing relationships in the environment, establishing a ground between the physical and psychological definition of these locations.
Patrick Pierce reclaims man-made and natural debris and detrius carried by the water and "upcycles" it in his sculptures to sing a new song.
Anna Shapiro's Fifth Wave & Knitting Project uses photos, a knitting machine and yarn to address social and ecological issues.
sam smiley's video of a certain media pundit demonstrates that destructive talk does not decay.
Andy Siegel's and Ellen Young's sound installation delivers the coastal and marine forecasts through the internal spirals of gastropod shells.
Naoe Suzuki's print series Blue was inspired by the cleansing and renewing powers of water, as well as the horrible condition of water throughout the world.
119 Gallery promotes contemporary and new media art, innovative ideas and cutting-edge techniques with a rich and diverse program of exhibitions, performances and community-based arts services.
