Amy Balkin is an American artist whose projects propose a reconstituted commons, considering legal borders and systems, environmental justice, and equitable sharing of common-pool resources in the context of climate change. These include clean-air park “Public Smog”, “A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting” (Amy Balkin, et al.), and “This is the Public Domain”, an ongoing effort to create a permanent international commons. She was a collaborator on Invisible-5, an environmental justice audio tour of California’s Interstate-5 freeway corridor. Her work and project documentation have been included in DUMP! at Kunstal Aarhus, Anthropocene Monument at les Abattoirs, Public Works at Mills College Art Museum, dOCUMENTA (13), Globale: Infosphere at ZKM, and in Sublime at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
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Part of Climate Justice Now! Art and Environment Today, a series of free Monday/Wednesday evening lectures, featuring a diverse array of guest speakers, all leaders in the area of climate justice and cultural politics, which will explore the current imperatives for making a just transition to a post-carbon future. Curated by professor T.J. Demos.
Free and open to the public.
Mondays and Wednesdays at 5:00pm.
Parking $3
Presented by the Arts Division, History of Art and Visual Culture Department, and Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence.