The Trouble with the Weather: a southern response
curated by Jacqueline Bosscher, Maria Miranda and Norie Neumark
Vic Simms will perform the welcome to country and sing open the exhibition
"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves."
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
UTS Gallery Level 4, 702 Harris St, Ultimo NSW
Opening night July 3
Exhibition 4 July - August 3 2007
Changing weather has spelt trouble before. But now we don't quite know what to make of it, and it feels urgent. As the media, climatologists, environmentalists and politicians vie to shape our understanding and emotional responses, global warming reverberates through every level of culture. The uneasy relationship between technology, nature and culture is unsettled once more.The Trouble with the Weather: a southern response brings together artists from Australia, the South Pacific and South America. The installation, video, sound, sculptural, web-based and performative works respond to the unsettling effects of climate change. With their focus ranging from an emphasis on aesthetic imaginings to investigations of tactical, emotional and pataphysical responses, the works in this exhibition open out a space for dialogue on our complex socio-cultural relationships to weather in the current context.
Participating artists:
Isabel Aranda (Chile), Peter Bennetts (Aus), Vera Bighetti (Brazil), Elizabeth Day (Aus), David Haines(Aus) & Joyce Hinterding (Aus), Niki Hastings-McFall (NZ, Samoa), Jonathan Jones (Aus) & Jim Vivieaere (NZ/Cook Islands), Zina Kaye (Aus), Dani Marti (Aus), Maria Miranda (Aus) & Norie Neumark (Aus), Jason Nelson (Aus), Regina Pinto (Brazil), Janine Randerson (NZ), Te Vaka (Tuvalu, Tokelau, Samoa), John Tonkin (Aus) and H J Wedge (Aus)
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