March 15–April 23, 2022 at the REACH at the Kennedy Center
Featuring an immersive 30,000 square foot documentary photography exhibition visualizing the climate crisis with performances, workshops, panel discussions, and educational programs.
Asia Society and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts present the east coast premiere of COAL + ICE, a documentary photography exhibition that brings together the work of over 50 photographers and video artists from around the world to visualize the climate crisis—its causes and consequences—as a large-scale immersive experience.
Forty-eight projectors will illuminate an immersive 30,000-square-foot purpose-built exhibition space on the REACH Plaza. Beginning with stunning suspended photographs of the Himalayan mountains and glaciers juxtaposed against historical and contemporary portraits of coal miners, the visitor explores the relationship between coal and ice as they go deeper into the immersive space and a story of the climate crisis unfolds.
COAL + ICE will also serve as a stage for a vibrant six-week festival of new, curated events—featuring music, theater, panel discussions, art-making, and more—that engage with local, national, and international communities. See the calendar for related events.
A robust slate of education activities will be supplemented by onsite and virtual exhibition tours and specialized student and teacher resource guides. The Moonshot Studio, the Center’s learning lab for the arts, will host Celebrating the More Than Human. This suite of hands-on projects and activities, curated in collaboration with artist Caitlin Nasema Cassidy as part of the related COAL + ICE exhibition, invites visitors to reflect on their relationship with the natural world and create art that celebrates that bond. Featuring the ever-popular Mixmaster Stations alongside takeaway projects just in time for planting season, visitors can drop in for a quick experience or reserve a time at ...More...
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