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The Studio in Bath + Gathering Moss Uk Artist Interview
Elisha Westmore from the The Studio in Bath reflects on the Gathering Moss project. The 5-day Creative Camp hosted by Art Centre Nabi and Watershed in collaboration with The Studio in Bath and Bristol+Bath Creative R+D.
The following is an extract from the article on The Studio in Bath website.
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Gathering Moss: Terraforming a Digital World
In November 2021, the UN Climate Change Conference brought together world leaders, media representatives, participants, protesters, and spectators to Glasgow. For two weeks, the world was transfixed, waiting to hear decisions made about all facets of the climate crisis – the science, the solutions, and the potential for action. Elsewhere, on two sides of the fragile planet, seven young artists from South Korea and the UK met online, to collaborate, create, and cultivate art that responded to the ongoing crisis.
Art Centre Nabi based in Seoul in South Korea and Watershed, based in Bristol, England, co-hosted the Korea-British global cultural project ‘Gathering Moss‘: a digital landscape populated with artistic ideas made in response to the climate emergency. It invites visitors to explore, to imagine the future of our rapidly heating world, to be hopeful, and to act.
The project began with a 5-day Creative Camp hosted by Art Centre Nabi and Watershed in collaboration with The Studio in Bath and Bristol+Bath Creative R+D. It was an invitation to collectively consider the climate crisis and generate artistic ideas with a programme of discussions, lectures, and workshops led by other artists and climate researchers. The participants were encouraged to respond to:
- REIMAGINE space for a post-covid, rapidly heating world and explore connections between online and physical, local and global, utopian and dystopian futures.
- EXPLORE play as a process for changing the relationship of people to the planet
- CONNECT with invited practitioners and with each other, to share understanding of the climate crisis and its consequences, from the perspective of differing geographical locations.
- DEVELOP artistic ideas to provoke climate action and act to ‘terraform’ a digital landscape.