Amy
Howden-Chapman

New Zealand artist Amy Howden-Chapman is the 2017 guest artist of the “Artists in Residence at PIK” program of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), organized in cooperation with the DAAD’s Berlin Artists-in-Residence Program and the state capital Potsdam.

Howden-Chapman’s work focuses on the effects of climate change. Founded by Amy Howden-Chapman and Abby Cunnane, “The Distance Plan” platform provides an interface where artists, writers and designers can exchange ideas and network on the topic of climate change. To this end, the project works with exhibitions, public forums, and publishes, among other publications, the magazine “The Distance Plan,” whose last issue was dedicated to the topic of climate and precarity. Her artistic works, performances, installations and videos, are also often based on many years of research and textual works, for which she finds strong images in the material realization, including audiovisual and haptic impressions.
For example, in the performance “You can’t unring a bell,” she marked the area in the New Zealand city of Wellington endangered by rising sea levels through the consecutive ringing of historic ship bells.