Vital Signs: another world is possible - a visionary new exhibition at Science Gallery London

What do you consider to be vital to your survival? The air you breathe? The water you drink? The earth that feeds you?

The health of our planet is essential for the survival of all living things, including you. To thrive, we need to build stronger alliances with each other, and with all other species.

Works shown include Ackroyd and Harvey and Sir Ben Okri growing the poet's visionary words in large-scale grass banners 'I sing the spirit fantastic', willing a world reborn through the power of language. Artist Gayle Chong Kwan's 'I am the Thames and the Thames is me' is a multimedia sculpture of river guardians for the Thames. An audio installation in the toilets at Science Gallery London questions the potential of using waste instead of disposing of it with Louise Mackenzie's 'Sh*t Happens!'. 'Night Bloom' from Cathy Mager and Spectroscope uses the metaphor of biodiversity to immerse the viewer in projection with storms and wilting flowers.

Vital Signs: another world is possible is Science Gallery London's new, free exhibition and events programme. It brings together artists, designers and researchers to explore how the health of the natural world is intimately connected to our own health and wellbeing from the waterways and atmosphere to the ocean floor. Revealing unique perspectives on our surrounding environments through multimedia installations, research collaborations and A Living Library.

Category: Arts | Visual Arts | Galleries / Art

Artists: Ackroyd and Harvey, Sir Ben Okri, Angela YT Chan, Birungi Kawooya, Centric Lab, Zuoxi Yuequi, Emma Critchley, Gayle Chong Kwan, Imogen Malpas, Naho Matsuda and Ekaterina Gladkova, Jo Brinton and Good Studio, Louise Mackenzie, Spectroscope, Cathy Mager