Remote Sensing: Artists in Conversation

Remote Sensing: Artists in Conversation initiates a timely conversation about the power of place-based art to amplify the reality of climate collapse. Moderated by curator Thea Quiray Tagle, we will learn alongside Beatriz Cortez, Sarah Kanouse, and Hannah Perrine Mode—three artists working across and between the US Northeast, the Arctic, and southern climes—about their strategies and practices of making work ethically while preserving its aesthetic and social impact.

This event is open to the public and registration is encouraged.

Presented in collaboration with Northeastern’s Office of City & Community Engagement and the Boston Public Art Triennial.

Event details:

Thursday, October 16, 2025

5-7pm

160 Snell Library

Northeastern University

Speaker bios:

• is a Filipinx femme curator, writer, and transdisciplinary scholar invested in socially engaged art, site-specific performance, and photographic histories of violence and climate collapse in and across the Pacific. She holds a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego, and was previously an Assistant Professor at UMass Boston. Thea's writing has been published in venues including American Quarterly, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, frieze, and BOMB Magazine. She is the Associate Curator of The Bell / Brown Arts Institute at Brown University, where she has organized residencies, performances, and solo exhibitions with artists including Eric-Paul Riege, Autumn Knight, Jasmine Thomas-Girvan, Julie Tolentino, and Dorian Wood.
• is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher based in Alaska and New England. She works across media to make objects and installations that explore entangled planetary systems, glacier melt, and ecological knowledge. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including recent exhibitions at Northeastern University, the Anchorage Museum, Columbia University, and iMana Lab (Slovenia). She has received support from the National Science Foundation, the International Arctic Research Center, and the U.S. Embassy, and has developed permanent public artworks in the California Bay Area. Hannah serves as faculty with the Juneau Icefield Research Program and is a founding member of the art-science collective Glacial Hauntologies. She is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD at University of Alaska Fairbanks. She holds an MFA from Mills College and a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College.

Event Venue

Snell Library 160, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, United States