Coastal Imaginations & Intermedialities : The art exhibition as a response to present planetary environmnetal disruptions

Whilst the effects of climate change have become increasingly clear, a growing number of visual artists have turned towards watery concepts and materials linking ocean and human lives as one, instead of turning to humanistic explanations of separation. Consequently, several exhibitions that engage with water have opened during later years that in diverse ways relate to ecology, aquaculture, migration, futurism, extinction, embodiment, etc. This book chapter approaches five artworks on display at Nordic contemporary art museums autumn 2022, that acknowledge the ocean, and more particularly the coastline. These artworks can be described as intermedial, immersive or even multisensory which means that thay embrace a mix of medias and sensory experiences in relation to the coastline. As such the artworks emerge in-between the fields of art, theatre, music, film and architecture. State of the Art Network; Ecological Grief, Crisis Imaginaries and Resilience in Nordic Light