CRITICAL THRESHOLD (Caps) is an interactive abstract Augmented Reality (AR) piece of artwork currently exhibited on the side of Ebor Studio building, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, as part of the Billboard Project which is sponsored by the Arts Council England. The work responds to the tipping point in climate change that we are now experiencing, a monumental shift, demonstrating lost edges and our irrecoverable path back to safety.
The digital image provides a trigger for the AR on the viewers phone with an easily downloadable app: Artivive, this is provided with a QR Code next to the work.
The sound was made in collaboration with Manchester Based Musician Holly Phelps (IORA)
View the AR interaction here: https://youtu.be/hpisLUkpl3E
The viewer is brough to a ‘presence’, a visceral point of engagement and communication, confronted with the neo sublime, intrigue and beauty coalesces with the horror of the incomprehensible facts about climate change and the Anthropocene. This momentary pause creates a portal from the viewer to my work. A rare chance to suspend time and explore the inertia we experience around the subject of climate change. Our brains protecting us creating a bubble where we can exist untouched, temporarily. In Nicolas Bourriaud’s Climate Change and The New Sublime, I find myself grounding my work as I explore this place of confluence the beauty and magnitude of a glacier as it hits the water and the horror and devastation of rising tides. Exploring the word ‘Anthropocene’ I find a succinct definition in Bourriaud’s writings “the Anthropocene appears as a revelation of the disquieted consciousness of the inhabitant of a globalized world…”
My research continues, more defined, yet a feeling of time scarcity creeps in, fear is not a creative component but it certainly provides impetus!
