186 - Coal + Ice: Visualizing the Climate Crisis

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Coal + Ice, a powerful global exhibition of photographs, videos, and immersive imagery that focuses on the climate crisis and provokes action is now on display in Washington DC through April 22, 2022.

Coal + Ice began in Beijing in 2011 with the unprecedented showing of images of Chinese coal miners taken by Chinese photographers. It has now now expanded to the work of 50 photographers from around the world, capturing images of the climate catastrophe as it unfolds around the globe.

Photographers and video artists include: Jimmy Chin, David Breashears, Song Chao, Camille Seaman, Gideon Mendel, Meredith Kohut, Jamey Stillings, Matt Black, Barbara Kopple, Dana Lixenberg and historical work from Robert Capa, Lewis Hine, Gordon Parks, Eugene Smith, Bruce Davidson and others. Coal + Ice also features installations, panels, music, conversations, cash awards to young artists weaving climate into their work and more.

For over a decade the exhibit has traveled the world evolving and expanding as the climate crisis unfolds. First Beijing, then Delhi, then Paris, Shanghai, San Francisco and now in Washington DC at the Kennedy Center through April 22, 2022.

Before the Pandemic, when Coal + Ice came to a massive exhibition hall on a pier in San Francisco, we traveled through the exhibit with our microphone. Special thanks to Susan Meiseles, Orville Schell, Geng Yunsheng, Michael Tilson Thomas, Joshua Robison, Gideon Mendel and Jeroen de Vries.

Coal + Ice was produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) and Evan Jacoby with help from Brandi Howell and Nathan Dalton. Mixed by Jim McKee at Earwax Productions.

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0:00.0	Radio Topia. Welcome to the Kitchen Sisters presents PRX. We are the Kitchen Sisters,
0:07.1	Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. The people who make our fellow radio topia show
0:12.2	everything is alive, the interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects
0:17.1	are bringing you something different this year. Right now in the everything is alive feed,
0:22.0	you'll find a brand new special series called The Animals, an interview show in which all the
0:26.8	subjects are animals. You'll get to know a beaver, a jellyfish, a flamingo, and more,
0:33.0	all sharing the trials and tribulations of what it's like to live elsewhere in the food chain.
0:37.9	Like everything is alive, it's funny, informative, and poignant. Here's a sample.
0:43.2	My name is Jerija and you can see me okay? Okay, good. I'm a jellyfish, so that's why I always
0:50.9	check with people. We're celebrities in the natural world. You know, that's the thing about
0:54.8	being a butterfly that I don't think people understand is the pressure. This is my son Joseph
0:59.4	and we are kangaroos. Joseph, we should say you are currently still in the pouch. Yeah, I live in
1:06.8	the pouch still. Okay, it's awesome. It's like nature's pocket. Humans have a phrase,
1:12.4	eager beaver. Are you not a slur? I never know if that's a slur. When I look at a peacock, I don't
1:17.9	see the king of birds. I see a woefully inconvenient animal. Imagine you snuggled up in a blanket
1:24.8	but that blanket was your mother and it was just love.
1:38.4	Find the animals and everything is alive, podcast feed now.
1:55.1	My name is Song Chao and I'm from Shandong province. The name of my work is called co-miners.
2:07.2	I grew up in the co-mind that I photographed. I became a co-miner there in 1996 when I was 18.
2:17.0	The co-miners that I photographed are all my fellow workers on that mine.
2:22.2	I'm Susan Mysales. I'm a photographer. We're at the pier for colonized which is a three-week
2:31.2	multi-media point of gathering for an ongoing conversation about climate change.
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