Aspen Ideas: Climate
Join us May 9 - 12 to engage in climate solution discussions and enjoy free outdoor art, performances and activations highlighting climate change issues
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Aspen Ideas: Climate is a new annual event in Miami Beach from May 9 through May 12, that will bring some of the most exciting innovators and leaders together with the public to engage with climate solutions that have the potential to reshape our world.
The City of Miami Beach has partnered with the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs to launch the Arts Resilient305 | Aspen Institute initiative. Local artists were invited to commission new and repositioned site-specific temporary public art installations and performances highlighting issues related to climate change and sea-level rise.
The outdoor art activations and performances are free and open to the public.
In addition, Aspen Ideas: Climate will wallcast replays of the evening speaker sessions onto the New World Center’s facade beginning around 7:30 p.m. each night for free public viewing. The film programs will follow immediately after, at approximately 9:30 p.m. each night.
Speaker Sessions
On View May 9-11
7:30 PM
New World Center, SoundScape Park
500 17 Street
To learn more about climate adaptation, mitigation, and resiliency in Miami Beach, visit www.MBRisingAbove.com.
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Cara Despain
Cara Despain will present Plasticene Swimwear Line—a line of women’s swimsuits intended to intervene in the problematic clothing and fashion swimsuit industry. Incorporating imagery of ocean garbage and flooding impacts from sea level rise, Plasticine Swimwear Line will disrupt luxury and leisure industries’ expected narratives in a call-to-action.
On View May 9-12
Miami Beach Convention Center (Swimwear)
1901 Convention Center Drive
Botanical Garden (Fashion Show) - Monday, May 9, 7:30 PM
2000 Convention Center Drive
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Franky Cruz
The Dome Lab
Artist Franky Cruz will create a butterfly garden and controlled research center in a geodesic structure that connects art, science, technology, and biodiversity while supporting the proliferation of pollinator gardens and emerging butterflies.
On View May 9-12
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Drive
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Morel Doucet
Morel Doucet will present a series of ceramic works addressing the crossed issues of climate-gentrification, migration, and displacement affecting Black diasporic communities. Doucet draws inspiration from his ancestral homeland Haiti, the world's first Black Republic. Exquisitely embellished with various indigenous flora and fauna found throughout the Caribbean, Doucet’s works instrumentalize the French Rococo style of architecture and décor to highlight a powerful record of environmental decay at the intersection of economic inequity, the commodification of industry, personal labor, and race.
On View May 9-12
Miami Beach Convention Center, 4th Floor (for passholders only)
1901 Convention Center Drive
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Brookhart Jonquil
Paradise by Brookhart Jonquil is a large-scale sculpture in which a live tropical ecosystem is situated inside of a saltwater-filled prism. The sculpture points to the growing precariousness of the relationship between ocean and land. A second participatory work, Offering, requires participants to labor for the benefit of a small plant. The plant is multiplied metaphorically by an array of mirrors as the participant turns a crank generator to provide light for the plant, a very small but concrete action for its benefit.
On View May 9-12
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Drive
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Lauren Shapiro
Lauren Shapiro presents a large sculptural intervention on the lawn of the Royal Palm South Beach. The work, entitled Site-R16 Transect 1 refers to a now-extinct coral population, memorializing it in the form of dimensional clay tiles stacked inside of a gold-framed monolith. With this work, Shapiro memorializes an ecosystem similar to South Florida’s own coral populations, cultivating an awareness of these fragile environments.
On View May 9-12
Royal Palm Hotel
1545 Collins Avenue
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All film programs will be projected onto the New World Center’s facade at approximately 9:30 p.m. for free public viewing each night, unless otherwise noted. |
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The Fellowship of the Springs
Oscar Corral
Florida’s artesian springs are a natural wonder of the world. These blue jewels surrounding the north Florida landscape are considered a treasure by many who see them. But today, the future of Florida’s springs is uncertain. With flow levels declining and nitrate pollution on the rise, the springs today bear the scars of a profound struggle. The Fellowship of the Springs takes viewers behind the scenes of the fight to save Florida's springs, from the halls of the state capitol in Tallahassee to the deep caves of Ichetucknee spring.
Tuesday, May 10, 7:30 PM
Doors open: 6:30 PM
North Beach Bandshell
7275 Collins Avenue
All ages
Tickets: Free RSVP
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Intertidal
A.S.T. (Alliance of the Southern Triangle)
The term intertidal refers to the coastal zone that lies above water at low tide and below water at high tide. It is the liminal contemporary condition in which we understand Miami to be, as well as a characteristic of coastal cities around the globe. The video presents a voice from a future Miami already subsumed by the tides, trying to transmit a message through to our present. ‘How do we let them know we are drowning?’ we are asked, via an overload of sound and image flashing through multiple futures, all in urgent need of care and attention.
On View May 9-12
Duration: 12 minutes
New World Center, SoundScape Park
500 17 Street
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Such Rooted Things
Dale Andree
The film Such Rooted Things, related to the performance by the same name within the Performance Program, considers the effects of climate change through a generational lens, addressing the importance of community through the inclusion of interviews of women across the county. The work was filmed in the mangroves at Miami’s Matheson Hammock park, the roots become the metaphor for our need to support one another.
On View May 9-12
Duration: 15 minutes
New World Center, SoundScape Park
500 17 Street
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Tropical Malaise: Prologue
Domingo Castillo
Tropical Malaise: Prologue is a site-specific film examining life on earth 500 million years in the future, post-human existence. Speculating the impacts of climate change, the film is constructed from hyper-produced, high definition tutorials on worldbuilding. The film’s screening site location upon Frank Gehry's New World Center fulfills two important issues central to the work: the technological underpinnings of fantastical architecture designed and only possible through advanced technological tools, and the inherent form-follows-function principle where the specific building codes required to withstand the potential destructive weather in South Florida dictate structural, aesthetic considerations and potential uses of the building itself. Through these constraints and lenses, Tropical Malaise: Prologue considers both the internal and external forces which shape the possibilities of reality spanning geologic time.
On View May 9-12
New World Center, SoundScape Park
500 17 Street
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Coral City Fluorotour
Coral Morphologic
The Coral City Camera is an underwater camera streaming live from an urban reef in Miami, Florida. It is located along the shoreline at the east end of PortMiami in about 10’ (3m) of water. It was deployed by Coral Morphologic as a hybrid art-science research project produced with Bridge Initiative and Bas Fisher Invitational and initially funded through grants awarded by a Knight Arts Challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
On View May 9-12
Duration: 5 minutes
New World Center, SoundScape Park
500 17 Street
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Mother Of...
Hattie Mae Williams
Film, Mother Of... dreams the effects of spiritually, physically, and energetically transmuting nonconsensual violent earth offerings of our ancestors, children, and loved ones both human and non-human, through blood rituals mandated by women. How has our complacency and participation in violent energy and offerings towards our earth effected the elements? Hattie Mae Williams invites the community to process their relationship to the elements and how climate change, patriarchy, capitalism, and racism has lent a hand in the exploitation of nature and people. Through themes of dream mapping, Yoruba folklore, site specificity, and bodily autonomy, Williams hallucinates a new world and way of living.
On View May 9-12
Duration: 7 minutes
New World Center, SoundScape Park
500 17 Street
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Metamorphosis, 2020
Part 001: Grub Economics, 14:54
Lee Pivnik & The Institute of Queer Ecology
Metamorphosis, a prelude and three-part film that aims to help catalyze a planet-wide transformation from the prevailing extractive relationship with the earth to one characterized by regeneration and care while remaking ourselves and our relationships—to each other, and the world. Metamorphosis aims to restructure how the world is imagined and how it operates today, modeled after the life cycles of holometabolous insects. Metamorphosis is narrated by Mykki Blanco and Danny Orlowski and commissioned by DIS.
On View May 9-12
New World Center, SoundScape Park
500 17 Street
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Brigid Baker
Brigid Baker will present a version of her new work “Numinous Land”. Incorporating dance, music, and hand-worked fabrications from mediums such as papier mache and found items, “Numinous Land” speaks on stewardship of the earth and regaining the dignity of materiality lost in a campaign to transcend nature - to conquer, to separate ourselves and to be mistaken about our place in the order of things.
Monday, May 9, 4:30 PM
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Drive
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Michelle Grant-Murray
Michelle Grant-Murray will present an excerpt of RoseWater, a choreographed dance ritual that explores environmental racism as the root cause of generational gentrification, carbon footprint and water ethics.
Tuesday, May 10, 4:30 PM
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Drive
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Dale Andree
Dale Andree will perform a unique version of Such Rooted Things in an exterior park, related to the film. The piece was originally created in the mangroves of Matheson Hammock in Miami, Florida and was influenced by the reflections of Miami women of multiple generations on their response to climate change. It connects our human stories to the environment by using the mangrove forest as a metaphor for our need to create connection and community in order to protect the fragile ecology of the systems in which we live.
Wednesday, May 11, 4:30 PM
Collins Canal Park
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Bill Fontana
Sonic Dreamscapes, 2018
Sonic Dreamscapes presents a sound and video installation created for both daytime and evening viewing via SoundScape Park’s sophisticated 72-channel Meyer sound and projection systems. Sonic Dreamscapes is the culmination of intensive research and a lengthy series of field recordings. Two years of exploration, supported by Art in Public Places and the New World Symphony, has yielded multiple versions of the artwork, allowing visitors at SoundScape Park a different experience with each visit. Trained as a composer, this work marks Fontana’s first collaboration on a public commission with a music institution. Sonic Dreamscapes is Fontana’s third major public art commission in the United States, following Soaring Echoes for the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park and Acoustical Visions for the Golden Gate Bridge’s 75th anniversary in San Francisco. His works abroad have been publicly installed at the Tate Britain and Tate Modern, The Venice Biennale and MAXXI in Rome.
On View May 9-12, Daily until 7 PM
New World Center, SoundScape Park
500 17 Street
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Gustavo Matamoros
Sound artist Gustavo Matamoros will design immersive multi-channel soundscapes to activate key areas of the conference. The work will be composed of original recordings captured over a period of 15 years at Everglades and Biscayne Bay National Parks. Presented in chronological order, these sounds communicate the progressive shifts in population density and location of living creatures in the Everglades from 2004 to the present.
May 9-12, Daily until approximately 5:30 PM
New World Center (Interior - for passholders only)
500 17 Street
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Plastic is the New Coal - Cleanup Field Trip
VolunteerCleanUp.org
Join VolunteerCleanup.org for a shoreline cleanup field trip as a part of Aspen Ideas: Climate programming. VolunteerCleanup.org will provide all supplies for the cleanup (gloves, buckets, garbage bags, pickers, sunscreen, water, hand sanitizer etc.) and a water cooler for filtered cold water refills.
Monday, May 9, 2 PM - 4 PM
Location: TBD
All ages
Free RSVP
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Agua Dulce at The Bass
Abraham Cruzvillegas’ Agua Dulce sculptural installation, featuring 23 different species and more than 1,000 plants to create a plant environment in front of the museum, free for the public to enjoy.
Open Daily
The Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Avenue
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Entry Points: Climates
Join Louis Aguirre, Silvia Karman Cubiña and other members of our community for Entry Points: Climates, a new self-guided video tour exploring works in The Bass Collection that highlight important topics like climate change.
Follow along QR codes with your smart phone and learn about the artists’ intentions, ideas, and thoughts on current environmental effects we’re experiencing in Miami Beach.
As you enter the historical building, locate and scan the green QR codes throughout the galleries to explore how artists address important environmental topics like sea-level rise, climate change, and more.
Open Daily
The Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Avenue
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Miami Beach Botanical Garden
Self-Guided Tour
Located next to the Miami Beach Convention Center, the Miami Beach Botanical Garden is a lush three-acre tropical oasis in the heart of Miami Beach, showcasing hundreds of palm species, native plants and orchids. Explore the different types of palms in the Palm Garden, wander through the serene Japanese garden showcasing an iconic red bridge and lantern pagodas, or marvel at the wildlife which call the Garden home. Self-guided audio tours (QR codes around the Garden can be scanned using a mobile device) are available, and a garden map is accessible at the main entrance and welcome center.
Open Tuesdays-Sundays from 9 AM - 5 PM
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Drive
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MB Rising Above App for Self-Guided Tours
Download our MB Rising Above app today to take a self-guided tour to learn about projects in the Sunset Harbour neighborhood and the natural resources that Biscayne Bay has to offer. Other tours will be added in the future.
The app has been designed to also allow all users to take a tour from the comfort of their own homes through the web app option. It can also be downloaded through Google Play and Apple Store.
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