After the Flood

AFTER THE FLOOD is an interactive art installation that combines projection mapping, motion tracking, sound design, and footage of the natural world to explore the urgent issues of water and climate change from an artist’s perspective. The work invites viewers to reflect on the complex and evolving relationship between humanity and the environment, particularly through
the lens of intergenerational creative experience.

Artists Mangaard and Bruce come from two different generations, each shaped by their own experiences of the environment. Mangaard has witnessed the rise of climate activism and the ongoing damage to our planet, while Bruce, born into a world already affected by climate disasters, will likely face even more severe changes as time goes on.

Through this intergenerational creative collaboration, the installation poses an essential question: How do we, as individuals and as a society, navigate the inevitability of environmental change? How do we reckon with our role in both its cause and its response?

The installation features creative footage from Mangaard’s global travels, captured with a variety of cameras, including underwater and microscopic lenses. Audiences will glimpse first hand glaciers, steaming mud pools, underwater sea and ocean life from Patagonia, Australia, New Zealand, the arctic and North America’s coastal regions—each offering a uniquely creative and intimate glimpse of the fragility of our planet’s ecosystems. These images help remind us of the vulnerability of our natural world and the urgent need for action.

Bruce’s technical expertise brings an interactive layer to the experience. Viewers navigate a landscape of floor projections that shift and evolve based on their movement within the space. This interactive element underscores the central idea of AFTER THE FLOOD: that we, as individuals, play an active role in shaping the environment, just as the environment continually shapes and responds to us.

By implicating the audience in the visual transformation of the space, the installation highlights the delicate balance between human actions and the natural world—reminding us of the profound and reciprocal influence we have on each other. AFTER THE FLOOD is not just an art experience; it’s an invitation to consider how we can better care for the world we live in, and how we can make a positive difference for future generations.

GALLERY TIMES:

• *OPENING* Reception: November 23, 6-10pm
  • Other Exhibition Dates: 
    
    • Wednesday: Nov 27th & Dec 4th, 12-4pm,
      
    • December 5th, 6-8pm

• *TECHINCAL WORKSHOP*: November 30th, 12pm-3pm led by Nathan Bruce
  
  
• Panel Discussion*: November 28th, 6 - 9 pm
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• *CLOSING* Reception*: December 6th, 6-9pm

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