What would the future look like with global warming running at 1.5 to 6 degrees centigrade? In their long-term multimedia project entitled Future Scenarios (launched in 2016) Lena Dobrowolska and Teo Ormond-Skeaping outline multiple scenarios open to interpretation on what the future might be like. Working closely with scientists, researchers and political decision-makers the Polish-British artist duo examines questions such as the responsibility for global warming and our vulnerability to it as well as the role that discourse plays in shaping our future.
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Future Scenarios
The Future Scenarios exhibition at the KunstHausWien Garage features a three-channel video installation as well as photographs and research material by Dobrowolska and Ormond-Skeaping. Portraits of people from Uganda, Laos, Nepal and Bangladesh – all countries which are deeply affected by climate change – are showcased alongside scenes of climate-related migration, adaptation strategies, food security, and how nature itself is changing. The artistic documentary-type exploration by the artist duo focuses not on vulnerability, but on our capacity for resistance and our adaptability, thereby initiating a (visual) dialogue on a future yet to be determined.
Curator
Sophie Haslinger
Artists
Lena Dobrowolska, Teo Ormond-Skeaping