In Conversation: Ohan Breiding and Lisa E. Bloom

Celebrate Ohan Breiding’s exhibition "Belly of a Glacier" by attending a conversation with Ohan and celebrated author Lisa E. Bloom at MASS MoCA.

United by their shared interest in artistic representations of climate change, artist Ohan Breiding and Lisa E. Bloom (author of Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic (Duke University Press, 2022) will offer an in-depth discussion of Breiding’s multimedia exhibition, Belly of a Glacier.

Co-organized by WCMA and MASS MoCA, Ohan Breiding’s Belly of a Glacier features an experimental documentary film and a photographic installation that function as a eulogy for the melting Rhône Glacier. Breiding connects collective acts of mourning to ongoing practices of care that strive to preserve ice — a material that contains both remnants of the past and the conditions of a future world. Breiding captures the efforts of the residents of Obergoms, Switzerland, to drape the nearby Rhône Glacier with thermal blankets to insulate it from rising temperatures. Despite these hope-filled actions of ecological care, scientists predict the Rhône will have fully melted by 2050.

You may also like the following events from Williams College Museum of Art:

• This Wednesday, 8th October, 04:00 pm, What's Up @ WCMA? in Williamstown
• This month, 27th October, 06:00 pm, Community forum on new Williams College Museum of Art building in Williamstown

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