MOAH PRESENTS OSCEOLA REFETOFF: REPAIRING THE FUTURE
4-minute documentary by Bryan 'Birdman' Mier (2024)
DIVERSEartLA at the LA Art Show presented by the Lancaster MOAH, Senior Curator Andi Campognone

The film's original soundtrack is written and performed by Canadian electronic music duo Sultan + Shepard with award-winning composer/pianist Paul Cantelon.

Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) is proud to present Osceola Refetoff: Repairing the Future, a multi-media exhibition focusing on global sea level rise. The centerpiece of the installation is a large-scale immersive audio-visual projection of the artist’s 8-minute film Sea of Change.

Blending hard science, documentary video, and impressionistic imaginaries, Refetoff is known for using aesthetic strategies to define and communicate an urgent need for both personal and systemic engagement, leveraging the natural beauty of remote regions to command our global attention toward local climate issues.

Much of the film’s original footage was shot by Refetoff in Svalbard, Norway, near the North Pole on a The Arctic Circle artist residency. These visuals are paired with NASA satellite images of the Earth and graphics depicting NASA’s scientific measurements of current climate disruptions. AI-generated animation envisions possible future climate outcomes.

The project was edited with Juri Koll during Refetoff’s 2023 artist and scientist residency at Building Bridges Art Exchange curated by DIVERSEartLA's Marisa Caichiolo in collaboration with Dr. Eric Larour, manager of NASA’s Earth Sciences Division at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Creative consultant: Shana Nys Dambrot.

https://www.lancastermoah.org/exhibition/repairing-the-future

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