Green | August 22, 2009 | 4 comments

Altering Landscapes: A Contemporary Art Project

source: http://www.alteringlandscapes.org/

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The weather and climate have a profound influence on our lives everywhere. Lives and livelihoods are disrupted in the path of storms and rising sea levels, retreating glaciers, intensifying droughts and floods, and food and water scarcity.

The Health and Climate Foundation has put together a contemporary art project that explores that relationship between climate and society.

Coinciding with the World Climate Conference 3 in Geneva, which runs from 31 August—4 September 2009, the exhibition is intended to provoke us to think about how we are affected by the environment, how it transforms us, and how we live with it.
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4 comments // Altering Landscapes: A Contemporary Art Project

  • ibibi
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      ibibi  

    • I would love to see a photo gallery or video of the art at this conference! It's a great idea to involve artists in a conference like this... and, if it is an independent, as opposed to sponsored, event - all the better. Very cool idea that could inspire lots of similar projects... in schools, online, etc.

    • 2 years ago
  • morealex26
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      morealex26  

    • i just joined current because i was browsing around and saw that stories like this are at the top of the page. traditional news sources get so stuck on regurgetating the same old thing... i love it that here if get the whole story, ie that there is a whole art side of the climate movement actually has enough momentum to have its own space during the geneva conference

    • 2 years ago
  • jopadopolis
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      jopadopolis  

    • man, i would love to check this out, i have a feeling the thoughts here are going to be a little more progressive than what we'll be hearing out of that conference room

    • 2 years ago
  • cannabinoids
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      cannabinoids  

    • I like the approach they're taking because it really opens up the conversation on the effects of climate change. The climate change conference is obviously of huge importance importance in terms of policy, but its totally inaccesible to the public. i hope that here, the voice of different people with different experinces with climate change will be heard (and hopefully by the policy-makers who will be just a stone's throw a way)

    • 2 years ago
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