Elegy for a Glacier
Sarah Bachinger
Official Selection
𖤘 Short: Experimental, Speculative
Elegy for a Glacier is a multimedia “poem of affection and sorrow” that stages a speculative archive of loss – an imagined afterlife in which future beings and technologies unearth the last traces of human tenderness for the more-than-human world. Sarah Bachinger frames the project around anticipatory grief and climate anxiety: the work both mourns and attempts to foster care, translating research, analytics and field practice into poetic materials that humanise data and open space for emotional response.
Bachinger’s practice is one of art, science and eco-feminist thought. Working with film, sound, photography and mixed media, she collaborates with scientists and cultural institutions to render slow environmental change legible and felt. Elegy For A Glacier has been shown in contexts from film programmes to UNESCO events and public broadcasts. The work explores anticipated loss and collective mourning.
As an eco-sci artist, Sarah Bachinger is deeply inspired by new materialist and ecofeminist theory and indigenous, cultural, ancestral knowledge(s).
Production: Sarah Bachinger
Courtesy of the artist