Climate Change Through Art: Sonification, Theater, and Immersive Installations

The article surveys artistic responses to climate change, highlighting several projects. Judy Twedt's Arctic Sea Ice Sonification transforms 36 years of ice data into a piano composition where the left hand plays four constant notes representing seasons, while the right hand plays a note indicating monthly ice levels—lower notes mean less ice. The Climate Change Theatre Action, founded in 2015, commissions 50 playwrights every two years to write five-minute plays coinciding with UN climate conferences, which are then performed with accompanying awareness actions. Rimini Protokoll's installation win >, created for the 2017 exhibition After the End of the World at CCCB Barcelona, immerses viewers in a world where jellyfish are the dominant species, contrasting with less efficient humans. Victor Kossakovsky's film Aquarela presents a terrifying, non-narrative depiction of water's destructive power due to global warming. Dear Climate, a creative research project since 2012, promotes non-catastrophic communication about climate change through audio meditations, letters, and posters; since late October, it has been working on Signs, Wonders, Blunders at Appalachian State University, a physical path exploring climate science.