THURSDAY 21 JULY 2018, 12 NOON - 1PM, P152,DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO STREET, DUNEDIN


Climate change offers artists very specific opportunities for art/science and public art engagements. Artists of all kinds can bring into sensory awareness climate change’s impacts in the social, environmental, economic and cultural ecologies we inhabit and generate. The Paris Agreement of 2015 insisted on the need for bottom-up, community-driven engagement with climate change, pointing out that its impacts reflect social inequalities as well as environmental degradation. This presentation provides examples of how artists have used different infrastructures to generate new understandings of climate change. These include educational institutional frameworks, public art strategies, environmental strategies and public/private engagements. 

Bridie Lonie is an Emeritus Member of Otago Polytechnic, Te Kura Matatini ki Otago. She is enrolled in the PhD programme of the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago and has recently submitted for examination the dissertation Closer Relations: Art, Climate Change, interdisciplinarity and the Anthropocene.  She worked on the development of Ara Toi ¯Otepoti – Our Creative Future,the Dunedin Arts and Culture Strategy.


Published on 18 Jun 2018

Orderdate: 18 Jun 2018
Expiry: 26 Jun 2018