Sculpture by: Daniela Soberman
Video installations curated by: Kisito Assangni
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Photographic elements: open source via TAM staff
Curated by: Max Presneill
Torrance Art Museum (TAM)

The utopianism of modernity that led to scientific and technological developments also led us towards forms of capitalism that have endangered the planet. Exploitation, excess, and greed have driven this while an ostrich-head-in-the-sand posture has characterized our approach to engaging with climate change, and the problems and potential solutions that await us in the present as much as the near future.

The formalist structure, created by Daniela Soberman, acts as the historical link to the project of Modernity and its aspirations while simultaneously reminding us of its perils and failures. Using Brutalist architecture as a reference point that encapsulates both the idealism and abject failure of this model, the collaborations, via photograph and video, highlight the need for immediate action. This project brings together 6-8 artists, in conjunction with Soberman, to explore the situation within the historical context that led us to this point of environmental catastrophe but with contemporary takes on our current position.They do this not by way of propaganda, but rather via a diversity of photographic concerns that by physical proximity in their installation on a single structure, bring together various viewpoints and interpretations of warning, of caution, of danger in respect of our environment, nature and climate.

ECOPOETICS OF GENERIC WORLD
International video program on climate change
Curated by Kisito Assangni

Climate change is arguably the most pressing socio-political issue of our time, with famine, poverty, loss of biodiversity, and mass-relocation hanging in the balance. ECOPOETICS OF GENERIC WORLD offers a range of artistic positions and responses to the dichotomy of impending climate change. The project consists of a screening that presents works by international contemporary artists working at the intersection of arts, climate change, culture and technology.