Art Can See the Future
Why aren't people paying attention?
Still from “Trigger Points/ Tipping Points,” Aviva Rahmani with Jim White 2007
In 2007, Dr, Jim White, founder of the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, where I am an Affiliate and I studied the relationships between geopolitical conflict zones and climate change. Our work was part of the “Weather Report” show at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) in Boulder, Colorado, curated by Lucy Lippard. Our collaboration was written about in a feature story in the New York Times Sunday Arts and Leisure section, in which Jim and I mentioned that we had bonded over agreeing that we (the industrial West) were raping the world.