LOOK Climate Lab 2024: All Events
LOOK Climate Lab is a biennial programme exploring how photography can be a relevant and powerful medium for talking about climate change. Starting from 18 January 2024, we’ll transform the gallery into a lab: bringing together researchers and artists to test their ideas and encouraging our audiences to discuss systematic changes needed for dealing with the climate crisis.
LOOK Climate Lab 2024 Events Programme
TREE WALK #1: WINTER TREES
21 JAN / 1 PM – 3 PM / SEFTON PARK
Join us through the changing seasons to explore the trees and species of Sefton Park with Andrea Ku
SHIFT LIVERPOOL OPEN MEETING
6 FEB / 2.30 PM – 4.30 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
An opportunity for the public to hear about what Liverpool’s cultural organisations are doing together to become more sustainable, and for artists and freelancers in the city to connect with the network.
LOOK CLIMATE LAB 2024 CELEBRATION AND WE FEED THE UK LAUNCH
8 FEB / 6 PM – 8 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Join us for a private view of the LOOK Climate Lab 2024 and We Feed The UK nationwide project launch, with music and poetry performances.
DIFFERENT APPROACHES: ARTISTS WORKING WITH SCIENTISTS
15 FEB / 6 PM – 8 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
The artists and the scientists reflect on their different approaches to research, collaboration and engaging audiences with the subject of climate change.
CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP WITH MELANIE KING
17 FEB / 2 PM – 4 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Learn how to make cyanotypes and tone them with sustainable botanical toners.
END OF EMPIRE: ARTIST TALK AND DISCUSSION
22 FEB / 6 PM – 8 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
An engaging discussion on expanded photography and the (hauntological) potential of AI.
BOOK LAUNCH: WHAT THE MINE GIVES, THE MINE TAKES
24 FEB / 2 PM – 4 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
A journey to decipher the hidden predatory logic within the mechanisms of gold mining exploitation and the resulting socio-ecological devastation in the Guayana and Venezuela’s Amazon regions.
CONTRAIL CIRRUS
7 MAR / 6 PM – 8 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
An open discussion on the impact of aviation on climate change, with a particular focus on the effects of contrail cirrus.
EROSION: PANEL DISCUSSION
9 MAR / 2 PM – 4 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Can post conflict waste be reused, recycled and more importantly reduced, can we recover and learn? Specifically, how does the unique rubble beach at Crosby continue to affect our natural coastal environment?
LOCAL ECOLOGY IN THE POST-INDUSTRIAL ERA: OPEN DISCUSSION
14 MAR / 6 PM – 8 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
How art, science and their intertwining allow us to come to a deeper understanding and appreciation of our natural environment.
PLANT A SEED. SEED SOW AND IN CONVERSATION WITH PLOT2PLATE
16 MAR / 2 PM – 4 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Making your own plant pot from newspaper and sowing your own kale plant.
TREE WALK #3: EARLY SPRING
SUNDAY 17 MAR / 1–3PM / SEFTON PARK
Join us through the changing seasons to explore the trees and species of Sefton Park.
WATERLANDS: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
23 MAR / 3 PM – 6 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Join us for an afternoon workshop exploring eco-poetry and creative writing.
WATERLANDS: AN EVENING OF POETRY AND PHOTOGRAPHS
23 MAR / 6 PM – 8 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Join us for an evening of nature poetry and photographs, exploring the Mersey and Alt rivers.
FORCE FOR NATURE EXHIBITION
27 MAR; 12 PM – 5 PM / 28 MAR; 10 AM – 4 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Compose music through touching trees and listen to an immersive soundscape.
TREE WALK #4: MID SPRING
SUNDAY 21 APRIL / 1–3PM / SEFTON PARK
TREE WALK #5: CITIZEN SCIENCE
MONDAY 20 MAY / 6–7.30PM / SEFTON PARK
Image: Rob Battersby
LOOK Climate Lab is a biennial programme exploring how photography can be a relevant and powerful medium for talking about climate change. Starting from 18 January 2024, we’ll transform the gallery into a lab: bringing together researchers and artists to test their ideas and encouraging our audiences to discuss systematic changes needed for dealing with the climate crisis.
LOOK Climate Lab 2024 Events Programme
TREE WALK #1: WINTER TREES
21 JAN / 1 PM – 3 PM / SEFTON PARK
Join us through the changing seasons to explore the trees and species of Sefton Park with Andrea Ku
SHIFT LIVERPOOL OPEN MEETING
6 FEB / 2.30 PM – 4.30 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
An opportunity for the public to hear about what Liverpool’s cultural organisations are doing together to become more sustainable, and for artists and freelancers in the city to connect with the network.
LOOK CLIMATE LAB 2024 CELEBRATION AND WE FEED THE UK LAUNCH
8 FEB / 6 PM – 8 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Join us for a private view of the LOOK Climate Lab 2024 and We Feed The UK nationwide project launch, with music and poetry performances.
DIFFERENT APPROACHES: ARTISTS WORKING WITH SCIENTISTS
15 FEB / 6 PM – 8 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
The artists and the scientists reflect on their different approaches to research, collaboration and engaging audiences with the subject of climate change.
CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP WITH MELANIE KING
17 FEB / 2 PM – 4 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Learn how to make cyanotypes and tone them with sustainable botanical toners.
END OF EMPIRE: ARTIST TALK AND DISCUSSION
22 FEB / 6 PM – 8 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
An engaging discussion on expanded photography and the (hauntological) potential of AI.
BOOK LAUNCH: WHAT THE MINE GIVES, THE MINE TAKES
24 FEB / 2 PM – 4 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
A journey to decipher the hidden predatory logic within the mechanisms of gold mining exploitation and the resulting socio-ecological devastation in the Guayana and Venezuela’s Amazon regions.
CONTRAIL CIRRUS
7 MAR / 6 PM – 8 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
An open discussion on the impact of aviation on climate change, with a particular focus on the effects of contrail cirrus.
EROSION: PANEL DISCUSSION
9 MAR / 2 PM – 4 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Can post conflict waste be reused, recycled and more importantly reduced, can we recover and learn? Specifically, how does the unique rubble beach at Crosby continue to affect our natural coastal environment?
LOCAL ECOLOGY IN THE POST-INDUSTRIAL ERA: OPEN DISCUSSION
14 MAR / 6 PM – 8 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
How art, science and their intertwining allow us to come to a deeper understanding and appreciation of our natural environment.
PLANT A SEED. SEED SOW AND IN CONVERSATION WITH PLOT2PLATE
16 MAR / 2 PM – 4 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Making your own plant pot from newspaper and sowing your own kale plant.
TREE WALK #3: EARLY SPRING
SUNDAY 17 MAR / 1–3PM / SEFTON PARK
Join us through the changing seasons to explore the trees and species of Sefton Park.
WATERLANDS: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
23 MAR / 3 PM – 6 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Join us for an afternoon workshop exploring eco-poetry and creative writing.
WATERLANDS: AN EVENING OF POETRY AND PHOTOGRAPHS
23 MAR / 6 PM – 8 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Join us for an evening of nature poetry and photographs, exploring the Mersey and Alt rivers.
FORCE FOR NATURE EXHIBITION
27 MAR; 12 PM – 5 PM / 28 MAR; 10 AM – 4 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
Compose music through touching trees and listen to an immersive soundscape.
TREE WALK #4: MID SPRING
SUNDAY 21 APRIL / 1–3PM / SEFTON PARK
TREE WALK #5: CITIZEN SCIENCE
MONDAY 20 MAY / 6–7.30PM / SEFTON PARK
Image: Rob Battersby
