Transformative Currents
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Oceanside Museum of Art
704 Pier View Way, Oceanside
MIERC.-JUEV.:11am-5pm
VIER.:11am-8pm
SÁB.-DOM.:11am-5pm
LUN.-MAR.:CERRADO
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"In-flux” (detail, installation in progress), 2024, Fran Siegel. Photographer: Gene Ogami. Courtesy of the artist and Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles. © Fran Siegel 2024.
"In-flux” (detail, installation in progress), 2024, Fran Siegel. Photographer: Gene Ogami. Courtesy of the artist and Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles. © Fran Siegel 2024.
"Holding On," 2015, Angela Tiatia. Digital still. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan + Strumpf. © Angela Tiatia 2015.
"Holding On," 2015, Angela Tiatia. Digital still. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan + Strumpf. © Angela Tiatia 2015.
Discussion Questions
- Compare and contrast the visual components of these works. What does their chosen media allow us to consider in terms of time, space, and perspective?
- In what ways does each artist elicit a kind of bodily engagement with the ocean?
- How do these artists evoke the coastline as an environment that is equally social, cultural, and ecological?
- What are some of the major concerns regarding sea level rise in Southern California? How are these concerns similar or different in other places in the Pacific, specifically low-lying states?
- What historical factors might influence different peoples' and places' abilities to adequately respond to climate change and consequent sea level rise?
- How does the ocean offer a shared space that links those of us in Southern California with the rest of the Pacific world? How are we responsible to each other on a local and global scale?
- What choices have these artists made to evoke a response from the viewer? How do they make you feel—Hopeful? Concerned? Worried?
- Do you believe our personal relationships with the coastline and ocean can help encourage political action and, if so, how?
Bibliographic References
Rosanna Xia, “In the face of sea level rise, can we reimagine California’s vanishing coastline?” Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2023.https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-08-22/the-california-coast-is-under-siege-how-can-we-save-it-from-sea-level-rise
Jaimey Hamilton Faris, “Gestures of Survivance: Angela Tiatia’s Lick and Feminist Environmental Performance Art in Oceania,” Pacific Arts 20, no. 1 (2020–21): 6–22.https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8z45x79s
Craig Santos Perez, "Thinking (and feeling) with Anthropocene (Pacific) Islands," Dialogues in Human Geography 11, no. 3 (November 2021): 429–433.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20438206211017453
