Culture meets science at VAG's Art and Climate Crisis talk, October 8
Artist Sanaz Mazinani joins an ethnobotanist and climate specialist in a panel inspired by her Offsite installation
An installation view of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani, on view to February 21, 2021, Photoby Ian Lefebvre, Vancouver Art Gallery
The Vancouver Art Gallery’s Art Connects presents Art and Climate Crisis on October 8 at 4:30 pm via Zoom
IF YOU’VE stopped to look at Sanaz Mazinani’s art installation All that Melts: notes from the future-past at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Offsite spot on West Georgia Street, you’ve probably been haunted by its futuristic mix of live plants and eerily artificial ice bergs.
As Stir told you in an earlier post, the piece is a complex meditation on climate change, the Indigenous heritage of this place, the plants that might be lost to rising temperatures, and more.
Now, in one of the VAG’s virtual Thursday-afternoon Art Connects talks, the artist will join Squamish First Nation ethnobotanist Leigh Joseph (Styawat) and climate scientist Glen MacDonald to discuss “art, ethnoecology, resilience, and reciprocity”.
The talk includes an introduction to the work by the VAG’s interim chief curator Diana Freundl, and will be moderated by the facility’s public-programs coordinator Stephanie Bokenfohr.
Art Connects over Zoom and has a chat function for viewers to ask the panel questions.
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