KMB 2022-23: Mapping Climate Emergency

Uriel Orlow's multipart installation began in dialogue with researchers of the Swiss National Park in the Engadine, an Alpine valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps, between 2020 and 2021. The project has since expanded to include climate data on the Himalayas.

In the Swiss Alps, climate change threatens plant species as those from lower altitudes migrate upwards, altering habitats. Researchers are tracking these movements through careful observation and comparison with botonists' fieldwork over the last century.

Pranay Dutta's acrylic-on-photograph series documents a sterile, post-apocalyptic hell. Towering structures and plumes of smoke imply a world continuing even after death, absent of human and animal life.

In black-and-white imagery, Dutta deconstructs and reassembles elements from reality to create dystopian mindscapes. Using digital panoramas, he creates chilling visions that are not only possible in real life, but also forewarned by anti-war and climate activists.

Forensic Architecture, a research agency based in the UK investigating human rights violations, looks into the timeline and patterns of destruction and threats on Brazil's Yanomami territory along the Uraricoera River due to gold mining. 

The film presents a timeline and analysis of the investigation conducted by Forensic Architecture, which links Bolsonaro’s policies and rhetoric to the sharp rise in environmental destruction and violence against Indigenous people in the Amazon

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