Climate Art is more than just art, and creativity. It is more than just expanding awareness. More than just communicating ideas. Climate Art is the intersection of Art and the Climate Crisis, so must be about engaging the subject directly and building capacity in the qualities and talents necessary for the scale of challenge facing humanity and the planetary system as a whole. It is ambitious. The Climate Art movement has to outcompete paradigms. The Climate Art charge is to create an engagement of the situation so compelling that it simply trumps our current distractions and boxes of reality. Imagine an art movement that rivals religion and economics in defining our daily reality.
—Carter Brooks
Ice Ice Baby – Episode 12 of Podship:Earth
I was honored to be featured on the 12th episode of Podship:Earth, May 2018, in which Jared Blumenfeld explores the intersection of climate and art… and ice. It was an expansive and great conversation.
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As an artist looking at the situation in the world, I look at it differently than most people. I don't see a bunch of individuals greedily using oil. I see a civilizational organism metabolizing the stored energy of the planet. Which isn't a problem that can be solved in exactly the same way we're often trying to solve problems.
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