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Arts and Design
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Climate Arts in the Pandemic: A Conversation with Gabriela Salazar and Una Chaudhuri
Friday, March 26 from 1-2pm EST
In March, 2021, the Climate Museum team was eagerly anticipating the presentation of a sculptural installation and one-day participatory performance in Washington Square Park by the remarkable artist Gabriela Salazar—a work entitled Low Relief for High Water—to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day in April 2020.
Art about the climate crisis has gathered freight in the time of COVID-19. Personal and community resilience are more important than ever, and climate arts can connect our distant existential concerns to our closest shared values. Climate arts build community based on truth.
On Friday, March 26 from 1-2pm EST, guests were invited to explore these themes with the screening of a short film about Salazar’s work, followed by an interactive conversation moderated by Climate Museum director Miranda Massie. The discussion included: Gabriela Salazar, Artist - Una Chaudhuri, Climate arts expert, NYU Professor of English, Drama, and Environmental Studies, and Director of NYU's Graduate Program XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement; Micah Fink, Filmmaker and Professor of Social Documentary at the School of Visual Arts; Anais Reyes, Exhibitions Associate at the Climate Museum
Reimagining Museums for Climate Action
Friday, April 9 from 12-1pm EST
What is a museum’s purpose? How can museums and the cultural sector transform to meet the demands of the climate emergency? What broader pathways does this open for considering the relationship between institutions and activism, for our current moment and for the future?
The conversation started with a filmed dialogue between Mark Chambers, Director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, and Miranda Massie, Director of the Climate Museum, that moved into a Q&A with attendees on the themes raised by a major international design competition, Reimagining Museums for Climate Action, for which Massie served as a juror. The competition attracted hundreds of entries from dozens of countries, and winning work was be displayed at an exhibition leading up to and during COP26—the United Nations’ meeting on the climate crisis—at the Glasgow Science Centre.
CLimate Speaks performanceS
Friday, March 12 from 1-2pm EST Night 2
The second year of Climate Speaks, presented by the Climate Museum. Each night’s livestream featured a group of NYC youth speaking their truth about the climate crisis, raising their voices to inspire action. These sixteen students performed original creative writing—poetry, short stories, and essays—that they developed through a Spring-semester creative writing and performance training program.
gulf Coast Stories
Friday, January 8 from 1-2pm EST
In Gulf Coast Stories, Vann R. Newkirk II and Virginia Hanusik discussed their distinct creative processes, and their research and storytelling in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The Climate Museum’s Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow Dilshanie Perera facilitated the discussion.