Learning Agreement

I would like to explore the contemporary normative artistic/scientific approach to the subject of Climate Change using digital media. Contemporary collaborative art/science output has tended to converge upon on the Arctic Regions as a site where the dynamic effects of climate change are ‘visible’. This is evidenced in the output from the Capefarewell project.

My interest, however, lies at the heart of the human responses to anthropogenic climate change – an aim to provoke emotional engagement with the ‘disaster narrative’. I aim to investigate the interdependent and symbolic meanings of climate change, i.e that of Perceptions (cycle/despair/denial); of Culture (artifact/consumption/identity); and Situation (Eden/ Apocalypse/Babel).

As a starting point to this line of enquiry, I would like to utilize some documentary audio from the Antarctic region to produce a video work that will symbolically replicate the interdependence typified by the Emperor penguin and its life in the Antarctic region.

I propose to create a tableau using shadow theatre/ object theatre conventions that interact with audio recording. I will do this using Overhead projector, assembled objects, water, a playboard screen and various lighting methods. I aim to connect an audio transmission thorough the assembled objects and water and capture the resonance patterns projected onto the playboard screen using photography and video.