Tara Nicholson // Mammoths, EcoZombies and Permafrost Extinction
Date:
Fri, Feb 7th, 2025 to Fri, Mar 21st, 2025Time:
11:00 am
Description:
In our Main Gallery from February 7th until March 21st, the Alternator is excited to display Tara Nicholson’s exhibition, 'Mammoths, EcoZombies and Permafrost Extinction.’
This exhibition endeavours to depict a polar ecosystem warming at a rate of 3-7 times faster than other landmasses. From this perspective, the Arctic can be seen as a microcosm of climate breakdown, where the accelerating effects of climate breakdown are already visible within its human and nonhuman animal ways of life. Arctic amplification or a quickened state of warming, will produce increases in extreme weather, altering animal migration and causing widespread habitat loss. Reflecting on permafrost, extinction and “eco-zombies,” the term attached to climate techno-fixes like (de)extinction and geoengineering, this exhibition looks to re-characterize “frozen life” as something increasingly valuable. Examining the fleeting nature of the Arctic, Nicholson questions the unseen realities of climate collapse to envision a post-anthropocentric representation of the Arctic.
Venue:
Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
Address:421 Cawston Avenue (unit 103), Kelowna
Cost:
VariesTicketing and/or registration:
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