What might the study of ancient climates have to tell us about the fate of Earth? Spurred on by recent discoveries in paleoclimatology (yes, that’s a thing), the visual artist and photographer Noémi Goudal ponders the imponderable in the multidisciplinary installation ANIMA. Her collaboration with three sister creatives—the director Maëlle Poésy, the acrobatic circus artist Chloé Moglia, and the electronically oriented composer Chloé Thévenin—blew minds at last year’s Festival d’Avignon and Venice Biennale. Catch it now in Chatham, population 4,104 as of the last census, in bucolic Columbia County. —Matthew Gurewitsch