“Making Climate Change Visible” Gallery Performance

"Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction."
-Terry Tempest Williams

Beauty despite destruction
Human nature vs Nature itself
Burning something to the ground to cultivate new growth

These are all themes represented in our pop-up gallery performance this Thursday. Whether you are able to be with us in space or not, we offer up a reflection on these ideas and how they resonate. When have you witnessed beauty within and despite destruction, in any form? How did it make you feel?

Two of our company dancers, Colin Myles Edwards and Kendall Kramer, will be working through these questions in movement within the structure of an improvisational score, flowing through smoke, sky and fire. The inspiration and center of this performance is the work of local textile artist, Carolyn Halliday and her new exhibition, "Making Climate Change Visible." 

"Drawn from her experiences during the global pandemic lockdown of COVID-19, Halliday hopes to summon gallery patrons’ awareness of the increased clarity of the sky because of reduced commuter traffic. Something that, sadly, is no longer visible with the return of ordinary commerce. Secondly, Halliday’s work will remind us of the smokey grey horizon we endured during the summer of 2023 caused by rampant forest fires. An annoyance, the smoke was an ever-present reminder of our burdened environment. Finally, Halliday asks us to consider the startling and colorful orange, red, and pink sunsets, made intensely more beautiful by the presence of heavy particulates that cause air pollution."
-From the Kolman & Reeb Gallery

We are so happy to be invited to move in reaction to this work, bringing human life into the space with Carolyn's large, impactful knit sculptures. Thank you to the artist and to the Kolman & Reeb Gallery Project Space Grant for making this event possible.