415 Parts Per Million
Rosny Farm Arts Centre, HOBIENNALE
15 - 24 November 2019
Cool Change Contemporary
7 - 28 March 2020
Curated with Jess Boyce, Emma Buswell and Aisyah Aaqil Sumito.
As the effects of climate change cut through stratifications of culture, 415 Parts Per Million brings together individual voices of protesters and artists.
Objects of dissent designed to last and speak their power for a few brief hours are given a secondary agency. Placards and signs – physical symbols of individual outcry – collected from the recent Global Climate Strike on Whadjuk Noongar boodja (Perth, WA) are brought to the country of the Mumirimina people (Clarence, TAS). Echoes from this global action are exhibited alongside works by artists whose practices focus on individual efforts to acknowledge their relationship to, and capacity for action, in response to this existential crisis.
415 Parts Per Million was originally presented by Cool Change Contemporary at Rosny Farm Arts Centre (TAS) for HOBIENNALE in 2019 with the work of Esther McDowell/Yabini Kickett, Danni McGrath, Sophie G Nixon, Dexter Rosengrave and Rachel Salmon-Lomas.
An expanded exhibition spanning all galleries at Cool Change Contemporary explored individual artists’ acknowledgements of their relationship to the environment, plus the power of acts of protest (both big and small) in the face of the climate crisis and other social and political issues. This iteration of the project welcomed additional artists including Carly Lynch, pvi collective, Patch Sinclair & Tessa Rex and SNAPCAT (Renae Coles and Anna Dunnill).