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*This is Not A Drill* Artists
Amanda Belantara's collaboration with her artist collective Kinokophone presents the interactive sound installation Mycelium of Sound that examines the sonic worlds we inhabit. It invites us to explore the sounds and stories of earthly interactions and consider what they tell us about the health of our planet.
David Brooks' project Death Mask for Landscape also explores planetary health and focuses on the aesthetics of death. Using drone scans of sections of the Amazon forest that have vanished due to logging, fossil fuel industries, and mining, he crafts aluminum death masks of the forest sections no longer living.
Striking a different tone is Sharon Lee De La Cruz's work Resistance at Seabreeze, an installation examining the joyful resistance at Seabreeze, a former Black leisure resort oasis in Wilmington, North Carolina. Her work features archival photos and a video narrative that explores the once-thriving coastal community vis-<à>-vis systematic and structural racist practices and climate catastrophes.
andrea haenggi, similarly, is interested in the shore. Their participatory installation bladderwrack calls attention to the enduring bladderwrack species, an indigenous seaweed found in Lenapehoking's intertidal coastal ecosystem (along the shores of New York and New Jersey). Bladderwrack persists despite centuries of environmental damage. On tobewiththeshoreisallweask.care/bladderwrack, the installation prompts engagement and storytelling in order to revitalize the often overlooked intertidal zone.
Thwaites: The Doomsday Glacier, the piece by Briana Jones and Lily Yu, also centers on participant interaction and dissects the three collapse triggers causing the Thwaites Glacier's withdrawal and looming demise. The piece visually renders the glacier's anatomy and melting process and explores ramifications of its collapse.
Mary Mark and Dror Margalit also focus on the future in their work Reflecting Forward. The interactive video installation in the form of a mirror invites viewers to ponder possible climate futures based on the findings of the global scientific community and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Benedetta Piantella, alongside NYU undergraduate and graduate students, dedicated local educators, community organizers, and social technologists, centers the connected aspects of individual and community resilience in her work Resist, Reclaim, Restore. The curated reading space focuses on interwoven aspects of food justice, energy transitions, community-owned infrastructure, digital equity, and citizen science.
Yeseul Song's piece Sustainable Material Workshop is a critique of the wasteful practice of digital fabrication. The work reimagines our relationship with materials and showcases new materials--accompanied by recipe illustrations and example projects--that were "cooked" with biodegradable plant-based kitchen ingredients. This evolving exhibit will feature new outcomes from the accompanying workshops and classes over time.
A critique of a different form is the film SWAY, by Ana Anu. It is an ecofeminist filmic response to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that find colonial capitalism as a major driver in climate change. The film features an all-femme cast and crew and depicts the multi-layered impacts of global western capitalism on vulnerable demographics through the feminine gaze, somatic inquiry, dance, and collaged poetry.
Jake Zaslav and Cate Byrne look far ahead into the future in their work Delancey 2222, a climate-centered audiovisual work that examines what Delancey Street and the Lower East Side will look and sound like in the year 2222. It features photographs of contemporary Delancey Street landmarks paired with AI-generated images of those same sites 199 years from today, alongside a musical work combining contemporary composition, field recordings, and interviews with community activist Bob Humber.
This exhibition is presented in partnership with NYU Libraries and with support of the Ford Foundation. The *This Is Not A Drill* program is a project of the Future Imagination Fund at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.