Remember ‘Save the Whales’? Can we apply that same fervor to saving other species, or humans, or the planet?

Weather and the Whale gets into these questions. A project collaboratively organized by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Bio-Telemetry and Behavioral Ecology Lab at UC Santa Cruz, this exhibition catalog combines artworks, critical and creative texts, and new scientific research investigating the histories and structures that render some lives, both human and nonhuman, more vulnerable to ecological crisis—and highlights collective practices necessary to create a more just world.

Speakers:

Rachel Nelson is director and chief curator at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz.

Ari Friedlaender is professor of ocean sciences and director of the Friedlaender Bio-Telemetry and Behavioral Ecology Laboratory at UC Santa Cruz.

Full book cast:

Co-editor, with Nelson and Friedlaender: Alexandra Moore, curator of academic programs at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz.

Artists: Imani Jacqueline Brown, Carolina Caycedo, Sharon Daniel, Yolande Harris, Christine Howard Sandoval, Ashley Hunt, Courtney Leonard, John Jota Leaños, Libia Posada, Mia Eve Rollow, Whale Liberation Front, Sam Williams, Suné Woods.

Scientists: Natalia Botero-Acosta, Chloe Lew, Logan Pallin.

Other contributors: Guillermo Delgado-P., Cory Diane, Mirra-Margarita Ianeva, LuLing Osofsky, Kailani Polzak, Şebnem Susam-Saraeva, Zac Zimmer.

Weather and the Whale is available from University of Minnesota Press. Thank you for listening.