The Department of Human and Natural Services
Nurtureart is pleased to present The Department of Human and Natural Services, a group exhibition curated by Mariel Viller茅 and featuring artists Nancy Nowacek, Allison Rowe, Li Sumpter, and the Environmental Performance Agency (EPA): Catherine Grau, andrea haenggi, Ellie Irons, and Christopher Kennedy. The Department of Human and Natural Services exhibits alternative arrangements of the bureaucracy surrounding climate change and possibilities to reclaim agency for environmental justice and resilience.
Transforming the gallery into a site for performance and as a departure point for collaborative production, The Department of Human and Natural Services aims to foster trust, experimentation, and open dialogue. The exhibition puts forward the role of artists in activism and proposes creative strategies in response to the current course of global warming and its myriad effects on environmental, political, and emotional levels.
If the multiscalar and multirelational 鈥渄isconnect鈥� is the primary contributor to the ecological crisis and its denial, as suggested by philosopher Bruno Latour, artists in the exhibition deal inherently with connection鈥攂etween humans, between humans and other species (plant and animal), and between disciplinary methodologies鈥攁s a gesture towards reparation and repair. Rather than in the artist鈥檚 studio, most of this work is done directly in communities, making face-to-face connections to address immediate human needs, to collaboratively imagine a better or sustained future, and to mobilize. The Department鈥檚 office is therefore a repository, a stopover, and a meeting place.
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Nurtureart is pleased to present The Department of Human and Natural Services, a group exhibition curated by Mariel Viller茅 and featuring artists Nancy Nowacek, Allison Rowe, Li Sumpter, and the Environmental Performance Agency (EPA): Catherine Grau, andrea haenggi, Ellie Irons, and Christopher Kennedy. The Department of Human and Natural Services exhibits alternative arrangements of the bureaucracy surrounding climate change and possibilities to reclaim agency for environmental justice and resilience.
Transforming the gallery into a site for performance and as a departure point for collaborative production, The Department of Human and Natural Services aims to foster trust, experimentation, and open dialogue. The exhibition puts forward the role of artists in activism and proposes creative strategies in response to the current course of global warming and its myriad effects on environmental, political, and emotional levels.
If the multiscalar and multirelational 鈥渄isconnect鈥� is the primary contributor to the ecological crisis and its denial, as suggested by philosopher Bruno Latour, artists in the exhibition deal inherently with connection鈥攂etween humans, between humans and other species (plant and animal), and between disciplinary methodologies鈥攁s a gesture towards reparation and repair. Rather than in the artist鈥檚 studio, most of this work is done directly in communities, making face-to-face connections to address immediate human needs, to collaboratively imagine a better or sustained future, and to mobilize. The Department鈥檚 office is therefore a repository, a stopover, and a meeting place.
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