The Art of Climate Conversation

The Art of Climate Conversation

Talk

Wednesday 15th October, 12.45–1.20pm

Philip Carter Family Auditorium

Free event, bookings required

Conor Clarke in conversation with Prof James Renwick (CRSNZ) and Moderator Sacha McMeeking.

 

How can art and science inform each other to communicate compelling information about the climate crisis? This series of talks brings together climate scientists and artists to discuss their practices, communities, and narratives around climate change.

Conor Clarke (Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe, Ngāi Tahu, Irish, and Welsh) is an artist and lecturer in photography at Ilam School of Fine Arts, the University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha. Her practice explores our relationship with the living world, ecology, landscape, and more recently, the endemic and endangered Kaikōura tītī (Hutton's shearwater). This unique, mountain-dwelling seabird informs and enriches her ancestral connection to place and approach to knowledge gathering and art-making.

James Renwick is a leading climate scientist from New Zealand who works on atmospheric physics, weather and climate at Victoria University Wellington. In 2019, he won the Prime Minister’s award for science communicator of the year, and will explain why he's invested the prize money into bringing artists and scientists together. 

Sacha McMeeking (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mutunga) is an academic, lawyer, activist, and strategic consultant, who has worked on diverse tribal projects nationally and with the UN and NZ Treasury, and has co-led a Deep South Science Challenge supporting Indigenous youth in a changing climate.

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