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This project explores the intersection of climate change and visual arts, emphasizing anticipatory adaptation strategies. From the concept of sustainable ice cream production to innovative artwork designs, the initiative challenges artists to engage with ecological concerns. Featuring contributions from Justin Carter and other notable artists, the exhibition highlights the importance of balancing economic needs with environmental sustainability. The project advocates for a holistic approach in art, where the journey and context of artworks are as significant as their final presentation.
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Climate change and the visual arts VAGA / Engage Scotland Scottish Book Trust, Edinburgh Thursday 27th August, 2009
‘Initially borrowed from evolutionary biology, the term ‘adaptation’ has come into widespread use in the climate change literature. In a way, it is a misleading term, because it implies reacting to the consequences of climate change once it has occurred. However, just like our efforts to limit the warming of the worlds climate, adaptation as far as possible has to be anticipatory and preventative’.(Anthony Giddens - The Politics of Climate Change, 2009)
A new project commissioned for the Whitstable Biennale 2004. Sustainable Indulgence
Aims & Objectives:Design & fabricate low impact structure for producing, preserving & distributing ice cream.To operate a production system where demand and supply are constantly in balance. Economic production dictated by nature.(logic of local ingredients)A social platform testing alternative technology.
Unforseen difficulties:Weather (lightning!)Ice cream wars Hearne Bay. (official warning)Outbreak fliesOngoing concern - (input/output analysis) Do the means justify the ends? (Specifically relating to transport and high cost)
Sustainable indulgence IIFor Aichi Expo 2005, Japan.Crossovers at Toyota Museum.
Invited to do new project for Crossovers UK.Opportunity to modify design in terms of weight, use and new context, (culturally and institutionally).
Aims:To re-design work to be as small and light as possible to travel as sea freight to reduce carbon footprint.A new challenge - to operate within gallery/museum context.
Deeper Aims:To develop art work that acknowledges its journey/existence after and during the point of exhibition.Intelligent ‘design’ - hybridisation. (ie. Cushioning of work becomes insulation)Holistic outlook - Product as process. (work is work whether exhibited or not)
Project Pigeon: Pictorial Featuring work by Justin Carter, Lisa Cheung, Tom Dale, Ole Hagen, Ming de Nasty, Lindsey Seers, and Simon Woolham, delivered by carrier pigeon. 6.30pm, 27th August - 6th September Insertspace, Digbeth, Birmingham