Immersive Video and Sound Installation conceived and Directed by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
Original music composition by Nana Simopoulos
Cinematography, Editing and Visual Effects by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
Additional Visual Effects by Caryn Heilman - Spacial Sound Design by Ander Agudo
"Perennial Land" is an experiential installation focused on Climate Justice that immerses us into the beauty of Earth's landscapes and awakens us to the importance of data-driven insights into our impact on nature.
Perennial Land - The Data Forest is an experiential installation that combines the beauty of various forest environments with the importance of data-driven insights into a human's impact on nature. Stepping into a space transformed into a multi-climate forest, tech and tools about resources and equity are seamlessly integrated into the environment like trees. We want to push aside the modern habit of thinking of nature–culture divide, decolonize technology and highlight the ways landscape contributes to social, political and psychic ideas of space. The vulnerability of the environment is directly related to that of certain communities. Nature does not need us. We need nature.
Perennial Land - The Data Forest is part of the Care and Climate Justice exhibitions series at Sarah Lawrence College and Bronx Community College with the support of the Mellon Foundation.
"Gathering is an ethic at the heart of Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger’s looped video installation, Perennial Land: The Data Forest (2024), which invites its audiences into a restful, contemplative, and immersive space, surrounded on three sides by lush images of Earth’s forest environments. These images are interspersed with climate data and scenes of human-planetary relations gone awry, the visual grammar of the Anthropocene. Cabrera and Duverger specialize in public, interactive video works that break down the “uni-directionality” of artistic communication, so that audience members are positioned more as creative collaborators than an inert “audience.”18 Even as Perennial Land serves harsh reminders of anthropogenic destruction, it also summons hope for other ways of being. Over-stating human destruction can reinforce an ideological binary of nature/culture and obscure long histories of reciprocal care on this planet; Perennial Land, on the contrary, both hails and builds a community invested in responsible co-existence." — Introduction: Care and Climate Justice by Sarah Hamill and Izzy Lockhart, Care and Climage Justice Catalogue, 2024
Care and Climate Justice is a series of exhibitions that take place at Sarah Lawrence College and Bronx Community College in winter and spring 2024. The exhibitions are funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, which supports the Sarah Lawrence Interdisciplinary Collaborative on the Environment (SLICE). Against the urgency and presentism suggested by “climate crisis,” these exhibitions turn to responses that might be considered careful and slow, and that shed light on the long histories of environmental devastation on this continent shaped by settler colonialism and racial capitalism. As both an ethic and aesthetic, care takes the form of grief and remembrance, of attention and refusal, of adaptation and kinship, and of expansive imagination and storytelling in anticipation and prefiguration of other futures.
Hall of Fame Art Gallery at Bronx Community College
Curated by Patricia Cazorla
2155 University Avenue, Bronx, New York 10453
March 21, 2024 - May 16, 2024
March 26: Care and Climate Justice Artists’ Roundtable - Heimbold Visual Arts Center
May 2: Perennial Land - Artist Talk - Hall of Fame Gallery, Bliss Hall, CUNY-BCC
Treehouse NDSM Art Park II: Voice of Nature
TT. Neveritaweb 57, 1033 WB Amsterdam, the Nederlands
September 12 - October 6, 2024 - Thursday to Sunday, 13h - 18h
