2024/09/24

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Stages Noisy “Climate Parliament” at Rice University

The latest addition to the Rice Public Art initiative, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Climate Parliament (2024, image) opens at Rice University in Houston (US). Installed in a public path through the Ralph S. O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science, an undulating canopy of 481 speaker-lights beam light patterns and play a dense mix of audio clips of environmentalist “protests, academic presentations, and civil disobedience” (featuring voices include Greta Thunberg and Timothy Morton) to foot traffic below.

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