2019
Text, sandblasted solar-powered LED message board, black rust patina
152 x 84 x 103 in (385 x 213 x 262 cm)
Text by Timothy Morton, Rita Shea
Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2019
Buffalo Bayou Sculpture Park, Houston, TX, 2019
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco, CA, 2019
This Is America | Art USA Today, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands, 2020
Note:
WE ARE THE ASTEROID III is a conceptual, text-based artwork by Brooklyn-based artist Justin Brice Guariglia (b. 1974). One of a series, the repurposed highway sign features texts by Rice Professor Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English and author of HYPEROBJECTS: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, among other publications.
This solar-powered LED message board – like those typically found at construction sites – alerts viewers to slow down and beware of dangers ahead. Instead of road conditions, however, the board features aphorisms calling attention to ecological issues such as “TRIASSIC WEATHER AHEAD,” “WARNING: HURRICANE HUMAN” and “WE ARE THE ASTEROID.” Through poetry, metaphor, and humor, audiences are drawn into the conversation, prompting diverse discussions about the planetary crisis.
2019
Text, sandblasted solar-powered LED message board
186 x 138 x 159 in (472 x 350 x 403 cm)
Text by Timothy Morton
Expo Chicago, Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, 2018
Imagine Climate, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO, 2019
WE ARE THE ASTEROID II, The University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, 2019
Note:
WE ARE THE ASTEROID II was funded by a Grant from the Union of Concerned Scientists
2018
Text, solar powered LED message board, gilded in 23.75 kt gold
186 x 138 x 159 in (472 x 350 x 403 cm)
Text by Timothy Morton
Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY, 2018
Occupy Colby: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Year 2, Colby Museum, Waterville, ME, 2019