‘The Year Without a Summer’ by Carlos Maté is an ongoing project comprising performances, sound-video installations and sculptures, developed and exhibited since 2022. Its goal is to explore the interconnections and leaks between the climatic disruption that occurred in 1816 known as “the year without a summer” and the current climate crisis. The eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 created a cloud that blocked the sunlight from reaching the Earth, causing the summer never to come in 1816 with catastrophic consequences. This climatic event took place in the midst of the Romantic period, which is a fundamental factor for this project. The philosophical, aesthetic, and ecological ethos of Romanticism become poetically entwined, becoming the basis for a metaphorical comparison between that first climatic crisis and the current statu quo of late-capitalism, which can be considered catastrophic both in moral and ecological terms.

Verbose’s work consists on the creation of multichannel sound sculptures, custom hardware design, video and audio production for the exhibitions.

Selbst premiered at the international documentary film festival ‘Play-doc‘.

Producer: MIL111.lab
Creative Direction: Iria del Bosque
Visual design: Borja Bernárdez
Sound design: Verbose
Interaction design: Borja Bernárdez & Carlos Bravo
2021

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