Margaret Carnegie Gallery: 4 June - 1 August 2010

IVU (frozen tsunami) on display in the Margaret Carnegie Gallery, 2010

The exhibition IVU (frozen tsunami) by Dr Lisa Anderson is a breathtaking combination of multimedia projection and sculptural installation. Featuring an immersive sound and video environment, Lisa Anderson explores the impact of climate change on fragile polar landscapes as well as our own communities, and illuminates the ironic beauty of a man-made apocalypse.

IVU (frozen tsunami) has been inspired by Lisa's 2007 voyage as artist-in-residence on the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov through the North-West Passage and across the High Arctic. The artist evokes this delicate environment through a display of transparent sculptural icebergs, floating in the middle of the gallery space and surrounded by projected images and lightbox displays. Combined with composer Jon Drummond's specially commissioned soundscape, IVU (frozen tsunami) is an experience not to be missed, a chance to truly enter the vanishing world of the North Pole and uncover the magic of its fragile ecosystems.

This exhibition is brought to Wagga Wagga by Lisa Anderson's research group, Shiny Shiny World, whose aim is to utilise art to put forward an understanding of a lighter touch on the planet and a kinder touch between people. At a time when it seems as if the debate over climate change has been captured by economics and statistics, IVU (frozen tsunami) provides an opportunity to feel the true impact of this challenge, and to understand what we may be losing forever.
 

Opening and artist talk by Dr Lisa Anderson

When: Saturday 5 June, 2010, 2.00-4.00pm
Where: Margaret Carnegie Gallery
Cost: Free
 

IVU (frozen tsunami) on display in the Margaret Carnegie Gallery, 2010