Conducting Mobility - Brian Collier, Free Soil, Amy Balkin / Kim Stringfellow / Tim Halbur / Greenaction / Pond, kanarinka, Michael Mandiberg, Laurie Palmer, Platform, Josephine Starrs / Leon Cmielewski :: Curators Ryan Griffis and Claude Willey collide with a carload of cultural projects focusing on the problems of mobility and energy :: @ greenmuseum.org.

Our world is continually shaped and reshaped by patterns of mobility. In the United States, motorization and single-use zoning are the principal components of a system that depends upon long distance travel and cheap energy. In the developing world, the wasteful patterns of the West are being repeated in places like China and India where increased automobile and fuel use are quickly becoming the norm. In all parts of the world, city governments struggle to keep pace with the energy and mobility needs of their expanding populations. Tourism, migration, military conflict, and environmental disasters all keep human beings on the move. Many choose their destinations, while others are forced towards them. Our 21st century world may ride the precarious line between the temporary and the permanent, and the ecosystems plundered by our unquenchable energy needs might have the final word. Art, and other forms of cultural reflection, can help to make accessible the structures and! systems that propel us. It falls to all of us as global citizens to redirect our governing institutions and cultural perceptions ? or we may find ourselves facing the end of the road.