Making climate change visible and personal
Selected through an open call for established initiatives across the Asia-Pacific region, the six projects demonstrated how art can contribute to climate awareness, community participation and locally grounded action.
Lan Qixia (China) presented an eco-art exhibition that transformed mountain waste into 12 installations along a 2.5-kilometre trail. Young people and community volunteers participated in their design and creation, inviting visitors to reflect on waste, responsibility and their relationship with nature.
Yujin Joung (Republic of Korea) shared Sun as a New Currency, a speculative fiction and collective world-building project exploring inequalities embedded in green transitions. It centers perspectives often marginalized in climate discourse, including those of women and laborers, such as Jeju’s haenyeo, and offers ways of understanding the environment beyond data and statistics.
Hanna Park (Republic of Korea) presented Decomposer, an exhibition in Jeju using video and discarded materials to ask whether art can break down fixed perceptions and bring overlooked ecological traces back into awareness.
Making the “Invisible” Visible, by Sonali Verma and Pritish Bali (India), used thermal cameras and women’s voices to document the effects of extreme indoor heat on women performing unpaid domestic work, bringing a hidden, gendered climate reality into public view and policy discussions.
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