Emotional Charge – An Artist’s Urgent Response to the Climate Emergency
Eve Mosher, Environmental Artist
In 2007, Brooklyn-based artist Eve Mosher started drawing a line. But unlike most lines that artists make, this one was drawn through neighborhoods, along streets and sidewalks, through playing fields and bus stops. Her line was drawn in an effort to alert various coastal communities in the U.S. and abroad to the coming changes in their shorelines due to climate change. That work is representative of a career built around creating interactive public projects that investigate the human condition in relationship to the world in which we live. Eve is not satisfied with just building an awareness of an issue. By creating a piece in a place that has meaning to her audience, she creates the kind of emotional response that can move us to take action. Her work has been featured as part of the New York Times’ 12 Artists On Climate Change, as well as in publications including The Economist and Smithsonian, and today she will discuss her work and how a realization just a couple years ago led to a profound shift in her approach.
Acutely aware of the ecological and climate devastation we are witnessing, she has turned her creativity towards creating space for grappling with radical truth about our contemporary moment and for engaging in the complexity of emotions related to that truth. Within this space, she also creates opportunities for radical imagination of future possibilities. Creatively communicating the climate emergency since 2007, she reached a breaking point in the fall of 2018 which has brought about her own truth and radical imagining of the role of creativity in a rapidly changing world. None of the previous experience, accolades, press or degrees have adequately prepared her for the moment we are in.
Connect:
https://www.evemosher.com/about
Twitter: @evemosher
Instagram: evemosher
More Info:
High Waterline:
https://highwaterline.org/about/the-people/
Heidi Quante - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Quante
Heat Response:
https://www.tpl.org/our-work/philadelphia-heat-response
Amber Arts - http://www.amberartanddesign.com/about
José Ortiz-Pagán - https://www.folkloreproject.org/ofrenda/jose-ortiz-pagan-project-manager-and-artist
Jenna Robb - http://jennarobb.com/
Trust for Public Land (supporter of Heat Response) - https://www.tpl.org/our-work
Articles:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/16/arts/design/16chal.html?searchResultPosition=6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/t-magazine/climate-change-art.html
Other:
Works on Water - https://www.worksonwater.org/
Musical Interlude for this episode: Requiem V2
Stan Sitnik – Piano, Percussion, MIDI Effects
Alina Plourde – Vocals, English Horn
Todd Rogers – Violin, Viola
full track - https://musicforpeopleensemble.bandcamp.com/track/requiem-v2 - Music for People Ensemble
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