Exhibitions

JANA HARPER, LUTZ KOEPNICK & JONATHAN RATTNER: SEEDS FROM SVALBARD

The Curb Center (Vanderbilt University) / 1801 Edgehill Ave. February 9 - March 6th

Jana Harper, Lutz Koepnick, Jonathan Rattner

The Program in the Communication of Science and Technology and the Curb Center are proud to announce Seeds from Svalbard, a multi-media art installation created by Vanderbilt faculty Jana Harper, Lutz Koepnick, and Jonathan Rattner, opens Monday, February 9 in Buttrick Hall. Inspired by their trip to Svalbard, Norway, to pursue a project on art and climate change in the Polar North, Seeds from Svalbard experiments with a diversity of artistic methods to address the effects of planetary overheating.

From February 9–March 6, Harper, Koepnick, and Rattner's work will be on view in Buttrick Hall in a building-wide installation, featuring continuously running experimental films, large-scale photographs, intricate collages, and didactic displays discussing the overall project.

Svalbard is famous for its history of extractive coal mining, and more recently, for its Global Seed Vault. Seeds from Svalbard aspires to transform Buttrick Hall into an ark of curiosity and inquiry—a space for unexpected encounters that challenge what we take for granted about our environments.