Earth Water Sky artist residency

Every year an open call for artists, from any art form, interested in the environment and the latest cutting edge environmental knowledge

Earth Water Sky is Science Gallery Venice’s 3-year residency programme hosting each year a new artist from any art form – digital arts, painting, sculpture, dance, performance, music, multimedia, video, film, photography, writing, drawing – in a 2 month fully funded residency in Venice. The winning artist/s will work with leading scientists from Ca’ Foscari University and the Veneto region.

In 2019, the first year of the competition, the selected winning artist Emma Critchley will be working with Professor Carlo Barbante and his team at Ca’ Foscari on the international Ice Memory project. This extraordinary scientific endeavour is building a library of ice from non-polar regions which will be stored in Antarctica comprised of ice cores drilled from endangered glaciers all around the world. From the ice cores and the air bubbles trapped in the ice which can be dated in some instances as far back as 18,000 BCE, scientists can reconstruct the Earth’s past climate and atmospheric composition. It is an invaluable record of climate change.
In 2020, the Ice Memory project will travel to several destinations for expeditions and field trips for their research. Amongst the major expeditions, Mount Kilimanjaro's glaciers which is the last ice left in the African continent. Other destinations are e.g. field trips to the Alps.

The residency is fully funded by Fondation Didier et Martine Primat.