IMAGINE EARTH'S FUTURE
Ecotopia: Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video

Mary Mattingly's, The New Mobility of Home (The Nobility of Mobility), 2004

Deforestation, global warming, mass extinction—these are just a few of the looming environmental crises facing humans and the earth. What does our future look like? Will we be able to coexist with nature? In one of the only exhibits of its kind, Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, over forty contemporary artists from fourteen countries will present their visions of global environmental change and the future of earth.

Using traditional photographs, staged portraits, websites and inventive videos, Ecotopia explores the currently changing landscape of earth as well as the futuristic dreamscape we imagine. One display lets visitors study the simple tragedy of what has already happened in places like Oregon, where large swaths of forests have been clear-cut. Other images foretell a bleak existence for humans in the future, where coming generations will have to wear “hazmat” suits to protect themselves from an increasingly toxic environment.

Mitch Epstein's Amos Coal Power Plant, 2004

One display features a film that follows six tortoises floating on a log down the Pearl River in southern China, surrounded on all sides by intense construction and human activity on the riverbanks. Their precarious situation reveals the environmental jeopardy that rapid development has wrought on China’s ecosystems as it takes its place in the global economy.

Where: The International Center for Photography, 1133 Ave. of the Americas at 43rd St., New York, NY 10036.

When: Through Jan. 7, 2007. Tuesday-Thursday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Closed on Mondays, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day.

Admission: $12 general, $8 for students and seniors, FREE for museum members and children under 12.

Information: 212-857-0000, www.icp.org.

For more events, see our New York What's Going On page.

Images: © Mary Mattingly, courtesy Robert Mann Gallery, & © Mitch Epstein/Black River Productions, Ltd.

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(Updated: 10/02/06)


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