Mar 24, 2021
David Buckland led the 2001 Cape FareWell Expedition to Svalbard; scientists, educators, artists, explorers and creatives came together to explore new lines of research and work alongside to create interdisciplinary work based on scientific research to shift the perception of climate change and garter the attention of a larger audience. He created his own artistic …
Some artists further public art to incorporate an influential ability that shifts and changes perceptions by provoking questions and generating conversations to alter political beliefs (Palmer, J. 2018, p.76). This can be seen within Landmark: Footprints (2001) (Image 7) by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. Their work explores political issues by presenting them externally from …
Feb 18, 2021
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Ice Receding/Books Reseeding emphasizes the necessity of communal effort and scientific knowledge to deal with the complex issues of climate disruption and watershed restoration by releasing seed-laden ephemeral ice sculptures into rivers. I work with stream ecologists, biologists, and botanists to ascertain the best seeds for each specific riparian zone. When an ecosystem is restored …
Ice Watch Olafur Elliasson, born in 1967, is a Danish- Icelandic sculptor and installation artist who focuses on the human experience involving elemental materials to comment upon the anthropogenic era. Ice Watch (2015) by Elliasson consists of 12 ice bergs that broke off from the Greenland ice sheet. The blocks are arranged in a circular …
What worked? The melting of ice upon sugar paper had many unexpected outcomes. The initial unexpectance was that the paper didn’t dissolve in its entirety but became a jelly like substance whilst wet then hardened to its original form when dried out. The melting did manipulate the colours of the print thereby making it more abstract and had …
Rewilding the natural places becomes a sanction for nature. The reintroduction of native flora enable habitat restoration for species and an abundance of life to enter the ecosystem. The fog creates an unveiling of towering pines intimidating the viewer and staking their place and power within the environment. Oct …
Don’t Tap the Glass, you’ll disturb their slumber. Though, they won’t stir, that press has effect. Not that anyone will know The wait of that touch extends beyond your memory- the trauma of the tactility, scars and broken bones. The consideration not of the being. …
Pierre Huyghe focus of producing working alternative to a human perspective presenting them as complex systems themselves as complex systems characterised by a wide range of life forms, inanimate objects and technologies. He produces immersive work surrounding the ever changing environment; incoporating how humans animals and other adapt and evolve. ‘I don’t want to exhibit something …
Oct 11, 2020
To visualise life before the climate crisis we would need to adapt our current life style, live sustainably and accommodate biodiversity. With the rate of deforestation and population growth, anthropogenic exhaustion of the worlds natural resources and production of greenhouse gasses will be the cause of the 6th mass extinction. We are on the precipice …
Vatnajökull (the sound of) 2007–08 A live phone line was created to an Icelandic glacier, via an underwater microphone submerged in Jökulsárlón lagoon, an outlet of Vatnajökull. The number 07757001122 could be called from any telephone in the world, and the listener would hear the sound of the glacier melting. Oct 1, 2020
Whilst visiting many different gardens and botanical landscapes, I noticed the juxtaposition between the man made structures and the flora formations. Manmade constructions conforming to architectural needs vs Natural structure observe the necessity to photosynthesis. Sep 28, 2020
