Natural Uncertainties
What relationship to nature might we have in the future?
Exhibited at the San Francisco Climate Week HQ and on permanent display, Natural Uncertainties curated depictions of what our future relationships to nature might look like, and to invited visitors to generate their own. The exhibit featured pieces from leading climate journalism media site Grist, alongside artists from the West Coast and world.
Grist holds an annual competition for fiction and art about climate and nature set in the 2200 future. Curating from this multi-year suite allows us to bring diverse voices and visions into the space across future relationships to nature. Select pieces have accompanying audio recordings of stories. The work focuses on inclusive storytelling and equity through the production and celebration of BIPOC artists. QR codes guided visitors to the stories.
We partnered with Grist to connect heart in addition to mind. SFCW holds abundant discussion of greenhouse gas and technology solutions needed for climate action. Yet an underlying driver of our planetary problem is our struggling relationship to nature. Our over-extraction and under-valuation of nature drives towards ecological collapse. Our future relationship will inevitably have to shift. There is no utopic perfect, what tradeoffs are we willing to make?
Physical Chat Threads
This installation invited visitors to add their own ideas, starting and building physically linked “threads” of thought—mirroring leaves populating the tree.
