6X HOWL is an experiential art event in response to climate change and what many scientist are warning is a pending sixth mass extinction.
It will take place THIS WEDNESDAY 9/14 beginning at 6:30 pm on the University of Vermont campus. The event will be of interest to many of our students and is a short walk from campus.
6X HOWL will work as a kind of “decompression café” following Elizabeth Kolbert’s talk at UVM on the subject of her book The Sixth Extinction. Tickets to Kolbert’s talk are no longer available, however the 6X Howl does not require tickets – it is free and open to the public.
In response to climate change and extinction, the public is invited to process our current condition and future species direction – to think and feel, to learn, to socialize and to express themselves. The event has many facets including performance (massive monarch butterfly drop), multimedia (“peep show” of mating bugs), food (yes, one must eat, even if it is Ben & Jerry’s ice cream topped with crickets), updates from our own tv news network (The Apocalypse Weather Report) and my own language-based contribution (Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl reworked). Bring an open mind, a compassionate heart, and any messages you may have for future dwellers of this changing planet.
The event is organized by BASTA! (stands for Bridging the Arts, Sciences, and Theory for the Anthropocene), a Burlington based network of artists, scholars, and activists.
The location is Billings Library and Student Center (this is not the main library, but a building next to Ira Allen Chapel), 48 University Place, Burlington, from approx. 6:30 p.m. on into the evening.
Participating artists and curators include Ariel Burgess, Kelly Clark/Keefe, Brian Collier, Cameron Davis, Adrian Ivakhiv, Al Larsen, Alexis Lathem with Art Herttua and Ray Carroll, Stella Marrs, Amelia Marzec, Harlan Morehouse, Ingrid Nelson, Amy Seidl, and Rebecca Weisman.
For further information, please visit the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1116783808368016/ or contact Prof. Adrian Ivakhiv, Steven Rubenstein Professor of Environment, at Adrian.Ivakhiv@uvm.edu.