Our Fetid Rank

Emily Parsons-Lord

07.10.2015 - 30.10.2015
Opening 07.10.15 6-8pm
Artist Talks 28.10.15 6-7pm

The air of each exhaled word from a politician talking about climate change is about 100 times richer in carbon dioxide. Roughly 21 shallow breaths a minute - depending on the politician - over 100 minutes uses about 5,250 litres of air. Dank air.

Our Fetid Rank responds to the aesthetics of anthropogenic climate change. Alongside the tropes of retreating glaciers and melting icebergs is always a politician talking.

Captured is the air used to physically shape the words that constitute cyclical discourses, futile dialogues and fervent denials of climate change. They reveal publicly canvassed suspended private moments of cognition/reflection, glimpses of emotion, unconscious ticks, and dubious authenticity.

Dank, humid, moist. Foul, fetid, rank.

The subconscious tendency to mirror breathing patterns has physiological effects on the viewer, inducing a hyperventilated claustrophobia and involuntary proximity to the mouths of our elected rank.