Overview
- Presents artistic and scientific dealing with impressions of the dramatic impact of climate change on the ecological equilibrium
- The dialogue between arts and sciences will sharpen the awareness of the climate change challenge and trigger creative approaches to a new understanding and possible solutions
Part of the book series: Edition Angewandte (EDITION)
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About this book
„Unfold“ exhibits the work of twenty-five artists who have participated in the Cape Farewell expeditions in 2007 and 2008 to the High Arctic and in 2009 to the Andes. Each artist witnessed firsthand the dramatic and fragile environmental tipping points of climate change. Their innovative, independent and collective responses explore the physical, emotional and political dimensions of our complex and changing world stressed by profligate human activity. This body of work addresses a new process of thinking where artists play an informed and significant role through creating a cultural shift, a challenge to evolve and inspire a symbiotic contract with our spiritual and physical world.
About the authors
David Buckland is an artist whose lens-based works have been exhibited worldwide. In 2000 he created the Cape Farewell project, which he now directs. A major international Cape Farewell touring exhibition includes his video work “The End of Ice” and two series of black glass collodion based photographic pieces and a series of twelve photographic glacial text projections. Buckland’s work was also shown in the UN touring Exhibition for World Environment Day. He also produced two films for television, “Art from the Arctic” for the BBC and “Burning Ice”. Recently he co-curated the exhibition “Earth – Art of a Changing World”, at Royal Academy, London.
Chris Wainwright is an artist, curator and Head of Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges, the University of the Arts London, UK. He is also President of The European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA). Currently he is a member of Tate Britain Council and a board member of Cape Farewell. He has been in numerous one person and group exhibitions worldwide. His work is represented in many major public and private collections including: Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Arts Council England; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: UNFOLD
Book Subtitle: A Cultural Response to Climate Change
Editors: David Buckland, Chris Wainwright
Series Title: Edition Angewandte
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0221-3
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Wien 2010
Series ISSN: 1866-248X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4858
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 120