Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison: The Force Majeure

 
Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison: The Force Majeure

Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison: The Force Majeure

Thinking about the Pennines of England, the high grounds of Europe, the Tibetan Plateau, and the Sierra Nevada: An ecologically based response to Global Warming predictions.
event date: 10/03/2012 - 10/03/2012
hours:

6:00PM - 8:00PM

Hosted by: OCAD University
OCAD University, 100 McCaul Street,
Auditorium, Room 190,
Toronto, on

For over forty years, the collaborative team of Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison has been internationally respected as visionary pioneers of the eco-art movement. Often referred to simply as “The Harrisons”, the pair has worked closely with biologists, ecologists, architects and urban planners to explore ideas and solutions that support both biodiversity and community development. The Harrison's expansive practice embraces a range of disciplines that often casts them in the roles of historians, diplomats, ecologists, investigators, emissaries and art activists. Presented in an art-viewing context, The Harrisons’ works features extensive mapping, text panels, models, digital animations and audio-visual presentations. Far from dryly didactic, their impassioned works serve as both a meditation on global ecology and also as a futuristic vision for environmental change and recovery.