ICIB 6001

Aim:

To establish an image to people’s head about sea level rise

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Research

Catastrophic Impact

Finnish artists Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho have shone three lines of light across a Scottish coastal town in this installation that aims to show the impact of climate change.

Lorenzo Quinn

Quinn’s sculpture illustrates humanity’s capacity to damage the environment but also its ability to save it. While “Support” creates a sense of fear in highlighting the fragility of the Venetian building surrounded by water, as a sign of hope, the hands which hold up the walls of a building remind us of our capability to re-balance the world and address global issues such as climate change.

A flood of blue – Spencer Tunick

Spencer Tunick described his work as “the idea that the bodies and humanity is flooding the streets.” During a normal day, these streets are flooded by people doing everyday things like going to work and shopping, but when the seas rise, it will be blue water that floods the streets, just like these blue nudes have done.

Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Einaudi teamed up with Greenpeace for a concert in the Arctic Circle in June 2016 in support of a campaign for a marine sanctuary in the North Pole’s international waters and to raise awareness about melting glaciers and rising sea levels.

Some of the King Tides trail is marked with red tassels nailed into the ground; other areas with informational observation points, solar lamps, and wooden posts. The installation is part of the larger King Tides Gulf of Maine project. A cycling and walking trail, along with a Google maps showing e path, is open for visitors interested in sea level rise.

This project is an example of how we can make climate change real for people. By showing where the water will be, not that many years from now, perhaps we can spur people to take action.

Plunge – Michael Pinksy

•Plunge is a simple, elegant statement placed on three monuments in central London. A string of low energy blue LED lights wrapped around each monument marks a time, 1000 years in the future, when sea level rises have changed the city beyond recognition. The monuments are ones that are passed every day by hundreds of thousands of people, whether tourists who stop to photograph them, or commuters who walk by every day without seeing them.

•Plunge offers an opportunity to see them in a new light, to think about their place in our history and their place in the city. Together, the Plunge monuments create an arc across central London, following the line of a future Thames that has swallowed much of the capital in its wake.

Waterlicht – Daan Roosegard

WATERLICHT is the dream landscape about the power and poetry of water. As a virtual flood, WATERLICHT shows how high the water level could reach. WATERLICHT is a collective experience to remind us of the importance of water innovation and the impact of climate change.

Jasmine Togo – Brisby

Jasmine Togo-Brisby is a fourth-generation Australian South Sea Islander, whose great-great-grandparents were taken from Vanuatu as children and put to work on an Australian sugarcane plantation. Togo-Brisby’s research examines the historical practice of ‘blackbirding’, a romanticised colloquialism for the Pacific slave trade, and its contemporary legacy and impact upon those who trace their roots to New Zealand and Australia through the slave-diaspora. Based in Wellington, Togo-Brisby is one of the few artists delving into the cultural memory and shared histories of plantation colonisation across the Pacific, her practice encompassing painting, early photographic techniques and processes, and sculpture.