Still from “Dust Animation” by Alina Debyser
Still from “Dust Animation” by Alina Debyser
UBC Geography and the UBC Liu Lobby Gallery welcome you to an interdisciplinary art exhibition titled ATMOSPHERIC APPARITIONS: Particle Pollutants – Dust, Ash, Smog and Smoke, currently on view until September 26, 2025.
As the first departmental exhibition, the project brings together the insights of undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, lecturers, and faculty members at UBC Geography, who engage with atmospheres and particulate pollutants in their art and creative works. The collective conversation considers particulates’ impacts on space, place and bodies in the context of wildfires, haze, dust storms, and infrastructural residues.
The exhibition is on view from July 22 – September 26, 2025, at the Liu Lobby Gallery, at UBC Liu Institute.
Contributing Artists from UBC Geography
David Adams, Alec Blair, Judith Burr, Kaitlin Chen, Marysa Lague, Alyssa Mawussi, Tam-anh Nguyen, Anna Pontin, Claire Sianna Seaman, Estraven Lupino Smith
Photo credit Tam-anh Nguyen
Curation and Production Team:
Prof. Desirée Valadares, Gillian Der 謝美華, Tam-anh Nguyen, Alina Debyser, Matthew Phan from UBC Geography
With Ellinee Nelson, Curator at Liu Lobby Gallery
Mini Symposium (September 18-19, 2025)
Dr. Javier Arbona (UC Davis), Dr. Sasha Engelmann (Royal Holloway, University of London), Dr. Elsa Noterman (University of Nottingham), Dr. Melina Packer (UW-La Crosse), and Dr. Jessica Varner (UPenn) will join us in person and virtually on Sept 18-19, 2025.
More information is coming soon.
Acknowledgement
This work is generously supported by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, the Liu Lobby Gallery, and the Public Humanities Hub.
