Abstract
“Waterborne: A Climate Art Exhibition” – features artworks made by students from HUMN2056 Climate Change Literature and Culture, Hong Kong Baptist University. The students draw on climate literacy to make artworks from upcycled marine waste along Hong Kong coastline and raise awareness of contemporary human-water relations.
Water gestates life. We are the children of water. We are waterborne. The exhibition title “waterborne 水生” invokes the double meaning of water as the communicator and facilitator of all life on earth, and as a power vector for toxic fluidity under anthropocentrism. The exhibition seeks to go beyond a fear-based climate narrative to explore hydro-visions of shared fluidity and collective kinship. Our poster (by Charlie Leung) reflects the amorphous meanings of watery relations, a pop-art rendering of a shimmering body of water that could also be the iridescent surface of a plastic bag.
As water teaches fluid wisdom and climate literacy, Waterborne advocates for artistic creation as the practice of acting together to overcome isolation. Through months’ of thinking, learning, and becoming with water, we have embarked on a journey of recuperating water’s integrity and telling cultural narratives of water from Hong Kong and beyond.
The Waterborne artworks explore diverse narratives of blue and energy humanities, including hydrofeminism, multispecies justice, earth emotions, the eco-gothic, and posthumanism, gathering creative forms of sculpture, film, game, fotomo, immersive soundscape, and participatory storytelling.
The exhibition comes to life in a collective act of coming-together to tell better water stories that motivate climate action.
Read more about Waterborne artworks in the booklet publication below:
https://bit.ly/3VRhJtX
Water gestates life. We are the children of water. We are waterborne. The exhibition title “waterborne 水生” invokes the double meaning of water as the communicator and facilitator of all life on earth, and as a power vector for toxic fluidity under anthropocentrism. The exhibition seeks to go beyond a fear-based climate narrative to explore hydro-visions of shared fluidity and collective kinship. Our poster (by Charlie Leung) reflects the amorphous meanings of watery relations, a pop-art rendering of a shimmering body of water that could also be the iridescent surface of a plastic bag.
As water teaches fluid wisdom and climate literacy, Waterborne advocates for artistic creation as the practice of acting together to overcome isolation. Through months’ of thinking, learning, and becoming with water, we have embarked on a journey of recuperating water’s integrity and telling cultural narratives of water from Hong Kong and beyond.
The Waterborne artworks explore diverse narratives of blue and energy humanities, including hydrofeminism, multispecies justice, earth emotions, the eco-gothic, and posthumanism, gathering creative forms of sculpture, film, game, fotomo, immersive soundscape, and participatory storytelling.
The exhibition comes to life in a collective act of coming-together to tell better water stories that motivate climate action.
Read more about Waterborne artworks in the booklet publication below:
https://bit.ly/3VRhJtX
| Original language | Multiple languages |
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| Publication status | Published - 17 Nov 2022 |
