A participatory assembly led by SPCUNY Fellow and Artist Chloe Smolarski; Tasha Darbes, ethnographer; and Edge Effect Media Group.

Remember: the planet is an archive. On April 24th, join together with people of different experiences as we engage the climate crisis through art, embodiment, and conversation. Participants will interact with archival material as interlocutors, as they observe one another’s stories of climate change effects.

This assembly will contribute oral histories to an archive of collective grief, as we recover the past, acknowledge the present, and dream about the future of our climate. Embedded within and inspired by the exhibits “Holding Water” and “When Home Leaves You: Archiving Living Memories of Climate Change,” our space centers collective grief, as a way to transcend alienation and imagine responses.