It’s All Right

Six IPCC assessment reports on the impacts of climate change have now been published. In their bombastic audiovisual installation, Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy give voice to political inaction, jolting us out of the numbness of the present.

As tech bros and autocrats continue to turn up the heat worldwide, we, like Icarus, fly ever closer to the sun – and yet the daily grind goes on. Through collage and a searing soundscape, inspired by Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles, It’s All Right overwhelms us with the precarity of our time. On a giant mounted disc, lobster-red, sun-kissed bodies drift across the sky. What begins in soothing calm gradually swells into cacophony, erupting through an eight-channel soundscape of AI-generated weather reports, climate protest chants and more. Both overwhelming and unsettling, the installation creates an inescapable sense of urgency: a doomscroll made physical – equally alarming and seductive. We’re going to be all right. Right?

– Thomas Streekstra

This walk-in installation can be visited free of charge in the Chapel (Huis van de Nijmeegse Geschiedenis) from Tuesday to Friday, 3 – 6 March, each evening. The installation runs on a continuous 15-minute loop.