Glacial Bodies by Caroline Spears

In no. 5: Glacial Bodies by Caroline Spears This body of work examines the phenomenon of melt, pairing geologic time with the mortal time of a human body. Glacial Bodies is about bearing witness and feeling one’s way through the precarity and anxieties of climate change. In September of 2023, Spears traveled across Iceland to experience glacial sites as part of her ongoing research into ice and climate change. The works in this show counter-balance the geography of Wisconsin’s past-glaciated landscape with Iceland’s active glaciation, a place critically vulnerable to global warming. The video work, also titled Glacial Bodies, implements the emotional human body to understand issues which expand beyond the self to include the larger environment. In this work Spears attempts to map the experience of quiet glacial death onto her own body as a way of connecting more intimately with this phenomenon. This action be-comes a means for excavating the metaphors contained within the ice: the dualities of time, the shifting states of matter, the artifacts of memory, the inevitability of loss. This exhibition offers a space for contemplating the reverence we feel towards our envi-ronment, and the anxieties we may experience in bearing witness to its vulnerabilities.

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