Absolute Humidity
Tess Maunder
Lobregat Balaguer
Brisbane-based curator and writer Tess Maunder asks, ‘What is the role of the curator? In its simplest terms, it is someone that listens to an artist.’ This end-note foregrounds ‘Absolute Humidity’, a publication and research project with a focus on action and ideas. Artists from the Asia-Pacific engage in conversation about trans-national relationships, ecological threats, exploitation, anxiety, sovereignty, politics, identity, disputed territories and the shifting weather, in the wake of Anthropocene rhetoric. Contributors include Raqs Media Collective, Brenda L. Croft, Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, Chantal Fraser, Bonita Ely and Angela Tiatia who says ‘I believe that artists can use their work to affect change, and the most urgent ecological concern today is climate change.’
