“Called to account” by Annique Goldenberg
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- Called to account
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Extreme weather events such as floods are on the increase and yet we are not hearing the urgency of the need for change. The young are calling my generation to account: to listen to, hear to see and to act.
This video and soundtrack are central to the installation piece ‘Called to account”. Consisting of a video of a woman signing with a barely audible soundtrack we are witnessing an Auslan translation of Greta Thunberg’s 2018 speech to the UN COP24 Climate Change Conference. In its original iteration in 2019 the projection was small and intimate floating on the surface of a small tank of water and mud collected from the 2017 Lismore flood. The viewer was drawn in by the gestures and facial expressions reflected into and on the water struggling to understand what she was communicating. In this 2024 iteration the woman is now larger than life calling for our attention. Barely audible is a girl’s voice Greta’s voice where she calls us to account in her iconic speech. Are we listening yet?
