DESIGN NAME: Glacier Lament
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Art Installation Lighting Film
INSPIRATION: Glaciers are sentinels of climate change. They are the most visible evidence of global warming today. This series of works embodies the stunning beauty, rapid change, fragility, destructive power, and magnificence of glaciers. At the same time, they challenge the audience with the dramatic, irreversible ecological damages from climate change.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: There are four color cards in PANTONE for glacier blue. However, in real glaciers, this blue color is variable and dynamic. As glaciers are disappearing, this unique blue is also disappearing. We sampled and blended the blue color from glaciers in Alaska and hung them in recycled glass vials. When one glacier calving happened, one color vial fell down. At the end of the exhibition, all 60 vials fell down, forming a painting on the canvas beneath.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: -
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Anchorage Museum, Alaska, 2021
Alaska State Museum, 2021
Donghu Shan Art Museum, China, Jul–Nov 2020
Global Just Recovery Gathering, Apr 2021
Broto Art-Climate-Science, Nov–Dec 2020
Artists in Nature International Network, Dynamic natural connections, 2021
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Data sonification, data physicalization, electronics, glacier melting data
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 4m x 6m x 6m
TAGS: Glacier, climate change, light, Alaska
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: -
CHALLENGE: -
ADDED DATE: 2022-04-01 17:07:55
TEAM MEMBERS (4) : Direction, Concept, Artist: Jiabao Li, Editor: Ryan Cortes Perez, Producer: Cooper Galvin and
IMAGE CREDITS: Jiabao Li
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