sottobosco (climate remix): CAVE 0 by Emma McCormick Goodhart

Unfolding as an olfactive and haptic experience in darkness, sottobosco (climate remix) is a durational installation that will fill SculptureCenter's lower level with ozonic mists from December 11 to 14. Launching on this occasion is CAVE 0, Emma McCormick Goodhart's first artist scent edition, which translates her research into archaeoacoustics, artificial caves, and “synthetic material fictions.” The scent emerges out of "ecopoetics of touch and timescale," originally created from macerations of moonmilks, cave dirts, cicada nymph skins, and other rare earth samples to render contact with prehuman lifeworlds. The installation will also feature a multichannel sonic intervention during the launch’s evening, tied to earamphore (2022), a vibrotactile sound piece created with Jessika Kenney that originally was commissioned for Nottingham Contemporary’s Hollow Earth exhibition in 2022.

The limited edition CAVE 0 perfume, launched by McCormick Goodhart’s studio, ecdysis, and hand-numbered on mineral-hue silver paper, will be available for purchase from the SculptureCenter store.

A closing and conversation will be held on Sun, Dec 14, 2:00–3:30pm.

Emma McCormick Goodhart [EMG] is an artist, writer, researcher, and dramaturge who experiments across media, timescales, and modes of practice. Interested in fathoming deep-time developments of sensing, especially in sound and scent, alongside technosensory futures, she stages soft architectures, social ecologies, and climate fictions that attempt to retune the spaces that host them.

Presentations include Bangkok Kunsthalle, Bergen Assembly, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Július Koller Society, Kunsthalle Zürich, Le Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Nottingham Contemporary, Pioneer Works, Storefront for Art & Architecture, The Glucksman, and the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her writings have been published by e-flux, Flash Art, Frieze, Kunsthaus Zürich (in German Braille), Open Humanities Press, Spector Books, Sternberg Press, and Vestoj, and shared with Adidas’ FUTURE Lab and MIT’s School of Humanities. An Affiliate Artist at the Rose Choreographic School in London, she is among the commissioned artists for Counterpublic 2026.