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Image: Daniel Shieh, Passafe to TOI-700 d (the New World), photo by Audrey Melton, courtesy of Socrates Sculpture Park

Various Artists, The 2022 Socrates Annual: Sink or Swim: Climate Futures

September 10, 2022 to March 12, 2023
Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens

Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.

Description:

This year, Socrates asks artists to consider the present-day ecological conditions and challenges that our globe faces. We are at once on the tipping point of irreparable ecological devastation and at the dawn of a new age of Green politics and technologies. While a global phenomenon, climate change does not impact all equally. The costs are greater borne on disadvantaged groups with less political power—those in developing countries, women, the young, the elderly, racial and ethnic minorities, and those without access to capital.

How can we address the urgency, enormity, and challenges of climate change without falling into melancholy or paralysis? How do the matrices of race, gender, and class intersect in this Green future? What can we do to mitigate eco-anxiety surrounding these many simultaneous demands for global change? What can we learn from historically vulnerable, but thriving communities that can help us navigate this challenge?

Artists in this exhibition include Cheyenne Concepcion, Sean Desiree, Koyoltzintli, Randi Renate, and Daniel Shieh. 

This exhibition is presented by Socrates Sculpture Park.