Josh Kline: Climate Change (Whitney Museum)

Exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and MOCA Los Angeles (2024–2025)

Personal Responsibility is a large-scale video installation by artist Josh Kline that imagines a future shaped by climate collapse, displacement, and environmental inequality. Presented as part of Kline's exhibition Climate Change, the work follows fictional essential workers navigating a world transformed by ecological crisis, drawing on interviews with real disaster survivors to explore questions of responsibility, resilience, and survival.

Installed within a series of refugee shelter-inspired structures, the project combines documentary storytelling, speculative fiction, and immersive video to examine the human consequences of climate change. The work premiered at the Whitney Museum and later traveled to MOCA Los Angeles.

As producer, Caroline Maxwell led the coordination and execution of a complex, multi-channel production involving a large interdisciplinary team of artists, filmmakers, performers, designers, and technical specialists. The project demonstrates the power of cultural storytelling to engage audiences with the social and emotional realities of climate change.