What role does art play in conversations around slow climate emergencies? This is one of the questions that artist, photographer, activist and PhD candidate Jessie Boylan explores in their work The Smallest Measure—an evolving multi-channel sound, video and photography installation.
I caught Jessie’s exhibition at the Castlemaine State Festival, tagged along during installation of their work for the ClimARt festival, and chatted with them in their studio in Central Victoria.
My profile on Jessie is now up at Get Outta Town. Go have a read! And check out Jessie’s work here.
Thanks Jessie, and thanks Yas (Get Outta Town’s senior wheatbelt correspondent and writer extraordinaire).
It’s difficult to make th abstract concrete. Interesting work. (K)
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Yes, also difficult to get through the filters, false news etc that allows people to ignore what is concrete. Thanks Kerfe 😊
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Indeed. We are all guilty. But I think we have reached a point where there is more going on than we can process.
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That ‘more’ is the cause of so much we’re dealing with — climate change, pandemic, mental health issues … so much from that desire for more until it is too much. I feel a sense of hope though about actions we can all take on the micro scale
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I agree. We can definitely have a local impact. And if more people do that, who knows?
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