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Remember when contemporary art solved the climate crisis?

ot every artwork needs to be about the climate crisis. Nor should it be. That being said, with a recent, sharp increase in climate change as a topic for artworks and exhibitions, it is necessary to address a sizable gap in the typical perceptions of what a climate-crisis-themed project does and what it physically, chemically, and functionally—and, as a result, its material effects on the atmosphere. Climate change is, after all, a large-scale physicochemical problem. It is an accumulating flow

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