In Conversation: Ohan Breiding and Lisa E. Bloom
Schedule
Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 02:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
MASS MoCA | North Adams, MA
United by their shared interest in artistic representations of climate change, artist Ohan Breiding and Lisa E. Bloom (author of Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic (Duke University Press, 2022) will offer an in-depth discussion of Breiding’s multimedia exhibition, Belly of a Glacier.
Co-organized by WCMA and MASS MoCA, Ohan Breiding’s Belly of a Glacier features an experimental documentary film and a photographic installation that function as a eulogy for the melting Rhône Glacier. Breiding connects collective acts of mourning to ongoing practices of care that strive to preserve ice — a material that contains both remnants of the past and the conditions of a future world. Breiding captures the efforts of the residents of Obergoms, Switzerland, to drape the nearby Rhône Glacier with thermal blankets to insulate it from rising temperatures. Despite these hope-filled actions of ecological care, scientists predict the Rhône will have fully melted by 2050.
Where is it happening?
MASS MoCA, 1040 Mass Moca Way, North Adams, MA 01247-2450, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:









