1.5 Degrees of Concern, 2021
Kristine Diekman (US), Lisa Mansfield (AUS) and Liz Waugh Manus (UK)
Modified books, sound, microcontrollers, speakers, sensors, minerals, living materials, feathers, cast glass, cyanotypes, electronics
The artwork invites listeners to interact with the objects. Touching, hovering over and exploring provides a multi-sensory experience that brings the listener into the complex narrative world of sounds, provides a mode of reflection and ultimately connects them to the urgency of climate crisis.
1.5 Degrees of Concern
1.5 Degrees of Concern is an international collaborative installation by artists Kristine Diekman (US), Lisa Mansfield (AUS) and Liz Waugh McManus (UK).
1.5 Degrees of Concern embraces networked conversations between three women on separate continents about living through global climate crises. The stories, both historical and speculative, spanning 200 years represent a dissolving past, an urgent present, and an imagined future.
The artwork is anchored by three modified or hacked books that incorporate interactive audio narratives which visitors access through exploring tactile interfaces which trigger the sounds through proximity.
This installation was first shown at ‘Rule 42: Stretched Language’ exhibition at the Bonita Museum and Cultural Center in California in November 2021.
Examining the layered transmissions and abandoned traces, the audience is invited to consider possibilities for an alternative utopian future and first steps to building it.
Three stories spanning 200 years, beginning with the great North Sea flood disaster of 1953, to speculative narratives set in a drought-ridden Southern California of 2053 and ending 2153 in an iced-over Australian desert.
1953 / 2020s - Liz Waugh McManus (Click image for detais)
2053 - Kristine Diekman (Click image for details)
2153 - Lisa Mansfield (Click image for details)