Collecting the Future

Curating
Research
Exhibition Production
Programming

Busan Museum of Contemporary Art
Busan, South Korea
07.2023 - 01.2024

Overview
An interdisciplinary curatorial project bringing together art, climate research and data science, site specific to the coastal city Busan, South Korea. 

As part of the ‘BusanMOCA Platform Ingredients Mining 2023’, ‘Collecting the Future’ takes an interdisciplinary approach to documenting the changing microclimate and ecosystem of Busan and translating it into an intuitive experience. Whilst the climate crisis and changes in biodiversity are indisputable, they can appear ungraspable as the changes happen gradually on an extensive worldwide scale. The project aims to transform these accumulated yet somewhat veiled changes into a tangible immediate experience. The team collects microclimate data from multiple locations across the city, analyses the data, converts the data into numeric values and inputs them to operate the installation piece. Along with the visualisation display of the climate data, the palpable installation invites the visitors to physically navigate the work and observe changes.