Vulnerable Earth

'Despair is Always under Deep Cold' in 'Vulnerable Earth'

'Vulnerable Earth', curated by Greg Lock, Director of the Photography, Film, and Related Media program at The Hotchkiss School, examines the Arctic as a region undergoing irrevocable transformation in the face of global climate change.

The Arctic Circle is an artist and scientist-led residency established in 2009. The exhibition features participating artists who traveled to the High Arctic aboard a dedicated expedition vessel to explore the Svalbard Archipelago and surrounding waters, working immersively in one of the most environmentally sensitive regions on the planet. When artists participate in the residency, the landscape of Svalbard and its surrounding oceans serve as both a material site and a conceptual lens to examine time and space during the current epoch, which some scientists call the Anthropocene.

Drawing on participants from The Arctic Circle residency, the exhibition brings together video, photographs, performance, and digital media artworks shaped by direct engagement with the High Arctic, reflecting on ecological instability and human limitations in a warming world. The works encourage careful observation, critical reflection, and sustained attention. The Vulnerable Earth exhibit functions as a space for learning, dialogue, and inquiry, asking how contemporary artistic practice can articulate climate change as an embodied, lived experience shaped through perception, material engagement, and responsibility.

Featured artists in the exhibition include Charles Binns, France Dubois, Karl Erickson, Julie Forgues, Matt Frieburghaus, Adam Fung, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Risa Horowitz, Ingrid Koenig, Kaisu Koivisto, Eva La Cour, Bonnie Levinthal, Greg Lock, Anastasia Loginova, Ella Morton, Pat Naldi, Alma Noor, Zelda Zinn, and Amber Zora.

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