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Fragile Earth: seeds, weeds, plastic crust

Venue: Mima

Date: Jun 29th 2019 - Sep 29th 2019

Time: 10:00 - 16:30

Price: Free

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An exhibition about the relationships between plants, animals and humans at a time of climate crisis. Climate change works on all scales. The planet is made up of complex and co-dependent systems and human activity has endangered, damaged and made extinct habitats, animals, plans and organisms. Oceans are swelling as polar ice melts; fresh water is shrinking; carbon-based energy sources are depleted and plastics are polluting our waterways. Faced with this scale of destruction, it can be hard to know how to take action. The exhibition and public programme show how artists help us to visualize, feel and understand the scale of the issue and the need for change. They show communities and art projects setting the tone for change in industrial, commercial and governmental behaviours. Exhibiting artists: Maria Thereza Alves, Zheng Bo, Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, Miriam de Búrca, Laura Harrington, Andy Holden, David Lisser, Shahar Livne, Anne Vibeke Mou, Otobong Nkanga, Uriel Orlow, Faiza Ahmad Khan and Hanna Rullman, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Cooking Sections, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Diane Watson, Wayward.