Anna May Kirk
About
Forecasting the touch of change makes imperceptible forces felt, heard, and seen. It produces a spectral encounter with climate change – a phenomenon that typically eludes our senses. From global weather systems to chemical disruptions invisible to the human eye, the work responds to the many processes of climate change that act upon temporal and geographic scales beyond human visual perception.
The sculptures that inhabit Forecasting the touch of change are sensory in their nature, porously registering and responding to the world. Blown glass and copper ‘instruments’ sealed with the 19th-century chemical composition of a Storm Glass forecasts future weather. Like an oracle, their internal crystal structures evolve with atmospheric changes, predicting what lies ahead. What you see here is a video work titled The Storm and documentation taken by Zan Wimberley of sculptural work in the Forecasting the touch of change exhibition, exhibited at Verge Gallery between August – September 2022 and further developed as a part of this Honours course.
Forecasting the Touch of Change proposes sensorial and aesthetic methodologies of attuning oneself to the macro- and micro- scales of environmental change, ultimately producing new manifestations of our molten planetary condition.
Bio
Anna May Kirk is an artist, curator and creative producer interested in the representational issues posed by the immaterial and spectral nature of Anthropogenic climate change. Through sculptural glass and sensory installations, Kirk engages the beholder’s body as a sensitive and porous instrument for encountering the magnitude of environmental change.