Thursday, December 17, 2009
Art Climate Change Conference as Art Fair?
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:42 AM
For instance, there's the "100 Places to Remember" exhibition of photographs of places threatened by climate change from the Magnum photo agency, supermodel Helena Christensen's series of photos on how people living in the Andes mountains are affected by climate change, Angela Palmer's ghost forest public installation of tree trunks from Western Ghana (pictured), and the Wooloo Productions collective's New Life Copenhagen project.
The most impressive show of climate change-themed art is RETHINK, an exhibition of works by 26 major contemporary artists at venues all over Copenhagen, including Olafur Eliasson, Henrik Hakansson, Bill Burns, Janine Randerson and Tomas Saraceno. Highlights (at least from what one can glean at the online exhibition) include Superflex's suggestion that we experience climate change like cockroaches, and Burns's typically derisive set of safety gear for animals, like a pigeon-sized life vest.
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