Climate Change
Oasis HD – Sharon Switzer – Multimedia Extras
Sharon Switzer talks about hope, her involvement with Cape Farewell, and about the project #crazyweather she created for Carbon 14: Climate is Culture.
Oasis HD – Alanna Mitchell – Multimedia Extras
Alanna Mitchell talks about the importance of artists telling stories, her involvement with Cape Farewell, and about her subsequent adaptation of her award-winning book Sea Sick for the stage.
Oasis HD – Lisa Steele + Kim Tomczak – Multimedia Extras
Artists Steele and Tomczak talk about their involvement with Cape Farewell, their project for the Carbon 14 exhibition at the ROM, and about their role as artists in talking about the problem of climate change.
Carbon 14 Day of Dialogue
The Changing Arctic Landscape
January 26, 2014, 1:00PM – 5:00 PM
Join Susan Aglukark, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Andrew Weaver and other leading experts and stakeholders for an afternoon of high-level balanced discussion about the impacts of climate change on Inuit communities.
Adria Vasil: Carbon 14’s Electric Idea + Longer Q&A with Claire Sykes
Drowning World
Gideon Mendel
Pattison Onestop Shopping Centre Screens
November 4 – 17, 2013
Drowning World is a long-term global exploration of flooding and artist Gideon Mendel’s response to climate change and the obsessive consumption that drives it.
Sea Sick
Alanna Mitchell
The Theatre Centre
NEW DATES: March 19-23, 2014
Sea Sick is a powerful and deeply personal solo performance. Alanna Mitchell discovers the secrets of the ocean, faces the demons of the deeps and finds hope.
#crazyweather Video Billboard
Sharon Switzer
Pattison Onestop Urban Screens
January 2014
The Earth, as seen from space, turns as Tweets commenting on the ‘crazy’ weather in different parts of the world travel across the screen, appearing and disappearing.
john st. Interventions
john st.
Pattison Onestop Urban Screens
October 21 – November 25, 2013 & October 14 – December 8, 2013
As part of the Trial of David Suzuki Interventions is made up of two projects that attempt to create public conversation around climate change.
#crazyweather
Sharon Switzer
An ambient 10-minute video loop is based on NASA’s iconic “Blue Marble” image. Tweets commenting on the ‘crazy’ weather being experienced in different parts of the world appear and disappear with the cumulative effect being rather troubling.
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro
Qapirangajuq is the world’s first Inuktitut language film on climate change and includes the traditional knowledge and experience of Inuit elders and hunters from across Nunavut.
Climate Change Atlantic
Ian Mauro, Craig Norris, Ben Phillips and Marc Labelle
Spanning Atlantic Canada, this project explores the cartographies of knowledge regarding climate change, its impacts on coastal communities, and how people are responding through mitigation and adaptation.
