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CRITICAL ZONES (Globe Gore #1, #2, #4)
These works reflect on the Critical Zone on Earth. The Critical Zone is the “heterogeneous, near-surface environment in which complex interactions involving rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms regulate the natural habitat and determine the availability of life-sustaining resources” (National Research Council, 2001). Working with the form of a “Globe Gore” (a system of mapping spherical globes onto a two-dimensional surface) and unfolding, disrupting, and reframing them, the works suggest a double meaning: pointing to the losses on Earth that require our attention and the bloodshed resulting from violence.
SENSING FORMS (Coast to Coast, Kenya)
These works form part of an ongoing series investigating mass animal deaths increasing in recent years due to climate change. Using the form of an oval-shaped satellite dish that both transmits and receives, mass animal deaths are scratched out of a critical zone of color painted on found images of ecosystems and climate zones. The works highlight the need to recognize these as intra-connected events rather than isolated moments. The series is an homage to the vulnerable and the living on Earth who are dying as a result of a destructive, anthropocentric worldview.
Kirsten Stromberg (b. San Francisco, CA) is an artist based in Florence, Italy. Working with experimental music, visual art, and education, her research focuses on listening and decentering as forms of resistance and reparative practice. She graduated as a Senior Fellow from Dartmouth College and completed an MFA in Arts and Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University. For over 25 years, she has studied with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (rosenclaire) in Italy and South Africa. She has lectured at several institutions and currently teaches Painting and Experimental Music/Sound Art at Syracuse University in Florence.
CRITICAL ZONES (Globe Gore #1, #2, #4)
These works reflect on the Critical Zone on Earth. The Critical Zone is the “heterogeneous, near-surface environment in which complex interactions involving rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms regulate the natural habitat and determine the availability of life-sustaining resources” (National Research Council, 2001). Working with the form of a “Globe Gore” (a system of mapping spherical globes onto a two-dimensional surface) and unfolding, disrupting, and reframing them, the works suggest a double meaning: pointing to the losses on Earth that require our attention and the bloodshed resulting from violence.
SENSING FORMS (Coast to Coast, Kenya)
These works form part of an ongoing series investigating mass animal deaths increasing in recent years due to climate change. Using the form of an oval-shaped satellite dish that both transmits and receives, mass animal deaths are scratched out of a critical zone of color painted on found images of ecosystems and climate zones. The works highlight the need to recognize these as intra-connected events rather than isolated moments. The series is an homage to the vulnerable and the living on Earth who are dying as a result of a destructive, anthropocentric worldview.
Kirsten Stromberg (b. San Francisco, CA) is an artist based in Florence, Italy. Working with experimental music, visual art, and education, her research focuses on listening and decentering as forms of resistance and reparative practice. She graduated as a Senior Fellow from Dartmouth College and completed an MFA in Arts and Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University. For over 25 years, she has studied with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (rosenclaire) in Italy and South Africa. She has lectured at several institutions and currently teaches Painting and Experimental Music/Sound Art at Syracuse University in Florence.