Climate Kit: Field Tools for the Anthropocene
Team
Sara Dean
Beth Ferguson
Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand
Climate Kit was commissioned by the ZER01 American Arts Incubator program in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Wellington, New Zealand. ZER01 is an international new media and digital arts exchange program that was developed in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Climate Kit is collection and exhibition of fieldwork methodology for the Anthropocene (maps, photos, tools, and video) that resulted from an artist residency at the Otago Museum in Dunedin, New Zealand. We collected 30 tool submissions used for climate fieldwork from scientists, artists, designers and citizens from around the world. These tools together tell stories of working in our changing environments, modes of practice, and metrics of change. The Anthropocene is an acknowledgment of a complex and integrated relationship between humans and our natural environment. The final work was exhibited in a month-long show and a workshop series with mini-grants took place at the University of Otago. Climate Kit was presented at the International Science Festival in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Climate Kit Exhibition at the Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand
Coastal weather balloon photography at the Otago Museum
The Living Map shows historical, present and future geological cliamte change projections.
Community workshop at the Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2016
Climate Kit Exhibition at the Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2016
Commission
ZERO1 American Arts Incubator, in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and the U.S. Embassy in Wellington, New Zealand. americanartsincubator.org/climate-kit-exhibition