Produced on the occasion of Josh Kline: Climate Change, MOCA Los Angeles, June 23, 2024 – January 5, 2025.
Josh Kline’s Climate Change is both an exhibition and a total work of art—an ambitious, immersive suite of science-fiction installations that imagined a future sculpted by ruinous climate crisis and the ordinary people destined to inhabit it. Begun in 2018 and produced in sections over five years, Kline’s eponymous project was brought together for the first time for this exhibition, mobilizing sculpture, moving image work, photography, and ephemeral materials to completely transform the galleries of MOCA Grand Avenue.
Climate Change is a visceral, charged work of 21st-century expanded cinema. In this vision, which could be called dystopian but in truth is terrifyingly near, a catastrophic sea-level rise inundated the world’s coasts, unleashing a flood of hundreds of millions of traumatized refugees. What happens in a world where the systems built to sustain and extend capitalist enterprise and global hegemony melted down their own foundations? Kline opens the door to such a future, inviting us to place ourselves within it and consider the rear view.
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2024
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Hardcover, 240 pages
- 8 x 11 inches
- Design by Practise
