The Chicago Cli-Fi Library
@ Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, February 22nd, from 5PM - 7PM
Climate change is a great existential crisis for humanity, yet the apocalyptic prospect of global warming and other consequences of this great disruption hardly make themselves felt in the mainstream of cultural production. Whether we consider art, film, literature or music, the specter of climate change has yet to produce the Anthropocene’s defining masterpieces. One could make the case that it is the very enormity of the challenge of imagining the unimaginable that causes this creative paralysis. The Chicago Cli-Fi Library is a modest attempt to make sense of this paralysis, suggesting that art’s response to the complexity and enormity of the issue at hand can only ever be piecemeal, ad hoc, and hyperlocalized – all of which must be understood as virtuous. Named after the emerging literary genre of “climate fiction,” or “cli-fi,” and accordingly bookish in both conception and outlook, this exhibition will feature the work of Chicago-based artists Beate Geissler & Oliver Sann, Jenny Kendler, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, and Dan Peterman. Curated by Dieter Roelstraete.
Please join us for a reception to celebrate the opening of this exhibition.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-reception-for-the-chicago-cli-fi-library-tickets-461898901047
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Tags: beate geissler, Chicago, Dan Peterman, Hyde Park, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Jenny Kendler, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, oliver sann, The Chicago Cli-Fi Library
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