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Running the Numbers

Gyre, by Chris Jordan (depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic from the Pacific Ocean)

Depicting the scale of mass human consumption in his series of photos ‘Running the Numbers I and II’ Chris Jordan stretches our ability to conceive of  this mad reality. More sculptural than photographic, the work is meticulous and the results poetic and startling. His ability to elevate statistics to fine art is a unique and powerful reminder of the continuing relevance of art in communicating the impact we are having on the planet.

RSA Arts & Ecology BLOG

The Arts & Ecology blog from the Royal Society of the Arts is very regularly fed and provides an excellent update on what’s happening in the world where arts, environment and activism collide.

RETHINK everything

RETHINK began as a series of exhibitions of artists responding to cimate change that is touring Nordic countries, and now includes an online blog forum, with entries in the following categories: rethink art, rethink nature, rethink politics, rethink sociality, rethink technology and rethink borders. A publication of essays is also available, and the intention is that this will become a periodical.

Cape Farewell Artists

Antony Gormley and Peter Clegg, Three Made Places, 2005, (process)

The Cape Farewell Project has inspired many well-known artists to focus on climate change by taking them on an expedition with scientists to the High Arctic. Here you will find profiles on each of these artists and the work they developed, which has been subsequently shown in various exhibitions around the world.

Cape Farewell Touring Exhibition

Kathy Barber, Here Today, 2005 (Neon, solar panel, cabling, battery)

From the Cape Farewell expeditions comes the touring exhibition in London, Liverpool, Hamburg, Madrid, Tokyo  in 2006, 2007, 2008 and now Cranbrook, USA in 2010.

Doomed

Doomed, a video work by Australian artist, Tracey Moffatt, consists of a series of edited catastrophic moments spanning the last 50 or so years of cinema. This relentless experience of disaster becomes almost comic as we face up to our human fascination with the destructive forces of nature – including those of our own making. Doomed gives us pause to consider whether we somehow, subconsciously desire this end and whether such warnings will have the ability to turn us away from our doomed path.

Culture Futures

The culture futures symposium held in Copenhagen on 7 Dec 2009 brought together artists, film-makers, architects, designers and others in the cultural/creative realm to discuss ways to work together to address global warming and move towards an Ecological Age – a journey which will require, amogst other transformations, a cultural shift.

Cape Farewell Blog

This blog is from the Cape Farewell expedition to Disko Bay and is not a live, but an historic blog of the artists’ experiences whilst on the trip. A fascinating dialogue is to be found here that sheds light on the artworks that were developed out of this experience.

Concert for the Earth

The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra will perform a Concert for the Earth to create awareness about climate change. The ASO will commission this new work from Gerard Brophy to be performed in November 2010. The concert concept came from South Australia’s Premier, Mike Rann, an advid supporter of the arts as well as a the first Premier to also be Minister of Climate Change.

Arts for COP15

Arts for COP 15 is an initiative of the Royal Society of the Arts to publicize the efforts of artists responding to climate change at COP15.