Tiffany Chung
Getty’s PST ART – Breath(e): Toward Social and Climate Justice, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
The exhibition considers the connections between climate change, environmental justice, and social justice through the lens of contemporary art addressing anthropogenic disasters such as deforestation, ocean acidification, coral reef bleaching, water pollution, extraction, and atmospheric politics.
Chung’s large scale installation Stored in a Jar: Monsoon, Drowning Fish, Color of Water, and the Floating World (2010-2011) is a 1:50 scale model of a floating village that she proposed in response to extreme flood projections due to sea level rise and climate variability. Chung researched various farmhouse and houseboat communities throughout Asia, combining vernacular architectural forms with design principles in arcology, many of which have already existed in these floating villages. Chung’s proposal recommends an adaptation measure rather than mobility, drawing from the wisdom and resilience of these communities in living with such acute climate crisis for generations
