Nancy Baker Cahill's augmented reality public art work, which launches on Monday of Frieze Week, depicts a mushroom cloud — 'the ultimate symbol of human-caused cataclysm.’
“It’s about recontextualizing accountability as it relates to the environment,” Baker Cahill says.
“I had the opportunity to go big, and the ocean is quite a backdrop,” Baker Cahill says of conceiving the first iteration of the work in Miami. “And what is the ultimate symbol of human-caused cataclysm? It’s theNancy Baker Cahill’s “Mushroom Cloud LA | Proximities,” an AR work, morphs into a delicate network of lilac arterial threads.as it’s been retitled for this iteration, is ultimately a hopeful piece.
The artwork’s many juxtapositions — of digital and organic imagery, of fire and water — add inherent “poetic tension,” Baker Cahill says. There’s also a two-minute video work, “Proximities,” viewable on Baker Cahill’s website, an abstracted collision of fire and water. It features a sound collaboration with Florida-based, Indigenous extended reality artist Amelia Winger-Bearskin, who contributed music and “sound seeds,” a mix of her vocals and audio from nature. The video is a 1-of-1 edition NFT, and it comes with five of the physical “Fire Node” sculptures.
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