Climate Notes

Performance

Climate Notes is an installation and performance project by Anna McMichael and Louise Devenish that invites us to explore and communicate how we feel about climate change through music, letter writing and video. The work builds on Joe Duggan’s Is This How You Feel collections of handwritten letters by leading science researchers from all over the world, as well as archives from the State Botanical Collection of Victoria.  

This emotive project features new musical works for violin and percussion by Australian composers Damien Barbeler, Kate Moore, Bree van Reyk, Cathy Milliken, Dylan Crismani and Daniel Blinkhorn, presented both in video installation and live music performance, alongside projection design by Nick Roux and an interactive letter wall that attendees can contribute their own ‘climate note’ to, and floristry displays using garden waste from the Botanic Gardens. Climate Notes propels us to consider what it feels like to live through a time when climate change affects every aspect of our lives.


REVIEWS

Arts Hub [2023] | Cambridge Companion of Australian Music [forthcoming 2024]


ARTICLES

The Royal Society of Victoria [2022] | LENS [2022] | Limelight [2022]

PERFORMANCES

2-16 February 2024: Performance and installation at Royal Botanic Gardens Adelaide.

24-26 February 2023: Performances and installation at Rosny Barn for MONA FOMA.

3 and 4 September 2022: Performances at Mueller Hall, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (premiere season).
3-18 September 2022: Installation at Mueller Hall, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.

6 November 2022: Performance at Backstage Music, Woodburn Creative Studio, Sydney.

EXHIBITIONS

16-20 October 2023: Exhibition and accompanying student performances across three Monash University libraries during World Climate Week.

DIGITAL EVENT

December 2023: Films screened at the COP28 Monash Pavilion, Dubai.

HiberNATION, as part of the Livestream Experiments Series