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Art of climate change
Adam's works investigate the (im-)perceptibility of the climate crisis.
Visual artist, filmmaker, cameraman, video editor and stills photographer, Adam Sébire lives in the European Arctic (Norway) but works on films from Australia, the Pacific, Greenland and beyond. He focuses on environmental themes through creative, aesthetic approaches in the form of documentary, photography and multi-screen video art.
Visual Art
Adam's photo & video artworks explore global warming and the Anthropocene; his “anthropoScenes" series asks how we might find ways of being & existing in the uncharted territory beyond the Holocene... →
Photography & thermography
Commercial shoots include the photos for the Royal Flying Doctor Service's new visitors' centre in Broken Hill, as well as documentation for performers, musicians, events, publications... →
Vertical Film Festival
Adam co-founded & directed the world’s first competition for vertical videos (2014-2018); his experimentation with new forms and aspect ratios (circular videos) continues in his art... →
Film & Video Work
As videographer and editor he has filmed and post-produced almost 30 SBS & ABC TV documentaries; web-videos & interviews for clients such as Sydney Opera House, Sydney Biennale... →
News
Sikoqqinngisaannassooq
• Sikoqqinngisaannassooq was selected for world première in the 2025 Tromsø International Film Festival. Adam was a guest of the Festival to present the film at the screenings. It’s a 15 minute documentary (1min trailer below) about how a remote Greenlandic Inuit community responds to their declining sea ice. It continues in festivals including Odense, RidduRiddu and Reykjavik International Film Festival later this year. The shortened 5min version, Sikkorluppoq, won The New Scientist editors’ award for best film at EarthPhoto2025 in London on 16 June 2025 where it’s exhibited at the Royal Geographical Society till August.
Feeling the Heat
• Feeling the Heat, a thermographic triptych is showing in Linz (AT) at Hauptplatz 8 as part of “Art for a climate-social city”.
Iceberg Care
• the video-art triptych AnthropoScene XII : a work-in-progress (aka Iceberg Care) won 2nd prize in the Creative Climate Awards in New York, is touring Scotland, and exhibited at UNESCO in Paris to launch the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP) and the 1st UN World Day for Glaciers.
The image above will appear on billboards throughout Antwerp (BE) for the OnBoards Biennale in July 2025.
Right: AnthropoScene XII, rear-projected onto a shopfront window in Hamburg during January 2025 for the group exhibition Contemporary Art Made of Ice.
Solastalgia
Underway are two other works that are spatially separated but linked by cause & effect (since glacial ice melt accounts for around ⅓ of all sea level rise) :
The Rhône Glacier, Switzerland, wrapped corpse-like in insulation, is the subject of a the new video work anthropoScene IX: Solastalgia →. “Solastalgia” is a form of alienation experienced in familiar surroundings due to environmental damage such as wrought by climate change. The “wrapping” is an example of solar radiation management; geoengineering. The work won the Henki Art Award for 2024 in December.
Sikujumaataarpoq
SOS Beniamina
Beniamina, Solomon Islands, is home to 130 smallholders cultivating carbon-negative seaweed, but is disappearing under rising seas levels in the South Pacific. This photo was finalist at the Royal Geographic Society London’s Earth Photo 2023 and Australia’s Head On Awards Nov 2023 & is for sale (contact for details). The interactive 360º won 1st prize in "Climate Chance - The Grand Challenge” organised by Venice universities. SOS Beniamina 360→
A film is being edited from the material recorded with the villagers there and will première as part of Project Groundswell in October where it was chosen as a finalist from around 500 submissions showcasing climate action & justice.
Other news
AnthropoScene II: Tideline (left) will exhibit at Abstract project – espace des arts abstraits in Paris 11mme, Feb-Mar 2025. It and Adam’s fine art prints are for sale at the 80:20 Artist Agency in Leichhardt, Sydney.
St. Andrews University’s Centre for Energy Ethics released a podcast with Adam discussing his AnthropoScenes series, art, ice, geoengineering and global warming. You can find the podcast here. Interview runs 12’36”-56'45".
Points of Return is a beautifully-designed online exhibition (launched 2022) featuring artists such as Adam working working with climate change. www.pointsofreturn.org (below).
new AnthropoScenes trailer (2025)
Last but not least we've a new teaser for the anthropoScenes series, excerpts from vignettes I-XII !
Adam Sébire
Based in the Norwegian Arctic; making films worldwide.
©2025 adamsebire@gmail.com
Website under construction – July 2025
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