Wednesday 5 November 2014

Arts and Climate Change

Marshall McLuhan said, "artists are harbingers of cultural change".  Cape Farewell is a project that brings scientists together with writers, visual artists, musicians, film makers and architects to explore the seas, in order to collectively address and raise awareness of climate change. The brain child of the organization, David Buckland is an artist who has invited other creatives such as writer Ian McEwan, musicians Kt Tunstall and Feist, and sculptor Anthony Gormley onto the ship into the Arctic.  Artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey for instance, carved a large lens out of ice and focused images onto large slabs of ice.


Scientists have had the evidence of global warming for years and this project works to provide a creative tool for communicating the need for us all to take heed and shift our practices.

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