The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is pleased to partner with Independent Curators International (ICI) to present Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology on view from January 26 through July 7.
Eva Kot’átková’s The heart of a giraffe in captivity is twelve kilos lighter tells the story of Lenka the Giraffe, who serves as a point of entry to Czechoslovakia’s politics of animal acquisition from countries of the Global South.
Postscript of Silence explores aspects of the world that have not yet been coded into the human perceptual lexicon, examining and questioning knowledge pertaining to environments that are being technologized and operationalized.
Featuring Citra Sasmita, Shuang Li, Soumya Sankar Bose and Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; an interview with Hiroshi Sugimoto; an artist project by Hylozoic/Desires; essays on the ‘Hijab Revolution’ and Thailand Biennale; and much more