New ways of seeing the sea: Installations invoke emotions of environmental change
First year Design Media Arts graduate student, Erin Cooney's solo exhibition, I Need the Sea Because It Teaches Me, intends to help viewers reflect on the natural world through her personal reactions to the changes occurring. The exhibition will be on view in the Broad Art Center Mar. 5 & 6, 2019.
"Erin Cooney recorded herself grieving over climate change.
Graduate student Erin Cooney will show her exhibition, "I Need the Sea Because It Teaches Me," at the Broad Art Center on Tuesday after a panel discussion on art and climate change. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin) The video is paired with sounds of insects and other animal life in a Puerto Rican rainforest, which fade out over time to represent the fauna diminishing since the 1970s.
The graduate student’s installation is part of UCLA’s department of design media arts exhibition, “I Need the Sea Because It Teaches Me.” The solo show will take place Tuesday after a panel discussion on the discourse art provides on climate change. Cooney said her exhibition, titled after a line in poet Pablo Neruda’s “The Sea,” intends to help viewers reflect on the natural world through her personal reactions to the changes occurring.
“I think it’s important to have an emotional response to the truth of climate change,” she said. “It’s an attempt to make emotional space for feeling the catastrophe.” "— Eli Countryman, Mar. 4, 2019
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