Transitional Landscapes
Channel: Art Science Connect
Date: 07/02/2022

Artists Diane Burko and Patty Chang join GC professors Jonathan Gilmore and Peter Eckersall to consider art’s possibilities and strategies of engagement with climate science, geology, and meteorology.

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In our time, environments are remade, exploited, terraformed, and subjected to massive forces of extreme weather. Our landscapes — the fauna and flora, as well as the geo-scene of mountains, sea, forests, and glaciers — are all set in a constant state of transition. Some impacts of this transition are felt and seen everywhere. But others abide by nonhuman measures of deep time and slow transitions. They come into our focus only intermittently, such as when an ice shelf collapses into the ocean.