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Paper polarbears, Antarctica passports and digital dresses – creatives respond to COP21

As the 21st annualConference of Parties begins in Paris, creatives around the globe respondto the urgent need for action on climate change. With 25,000 official delegatesfrom governments around the world due to attend COP21, the conferencerepresents the first time in over 20 years of UN negotiations that they areaiming to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, withthe aim of keeping global warming below two degrees Celsius.

UAL artists anddesigners are at the forefront of the creative responses to COP21,here we share some of the activity taking place in London, Paris andbeyond.

Antarctica
4–10 December, Art COP21 Grand Palais, Paris

At the Solutions21exhibition, during the COP21 Climate Summit, UALChair of Art in the Environment LucyOrta will create an Antarctica World Passport Bureau. An estimated 50,000visitors will be issued with an Antarctica World Passport and invited to sign acommitment charter for the protection of the environment and the future of ourplanet. Lucy comments: “Antarctica embodies a new vision of Utopia: a continentwhose extreme climate imposes mutual aid and research, for the benefit ofmankind. The Antarctic continent contains 75% of the planet’s fresh water, ofwhich 90% is ice. Antarctica has begun its irreversible decline. The AntarcticaWorld Passport public engagement project asks us to take action against globalwarming, to become a global citizen to mitigate the potential catastrophichuman consequences.”

Larsen’sLost Water
Until 11 December, Wimbledon Space, London

Larsen’s LostWater focuses on the ways that the relatively uncharted parts of the globe– the Polar Regions and the seas – are (mis)represented, through exploringcontext and how introducing an alien or unexpected object into a space affectsboth components’ readings.

Curator, Dr EdwinaFitzpatrick comments: “I was initially very hopeful about the 2009 climatechange summit in Copenhagen, where sadly nothing was agreed to mitigate climatechange, so have approached COP21 with cautious pessimism. However, so far thepre-COP meetings have been more inclusive than ever before and discussions seemto be positive, so perhaps we will get the legally binding and universalagreement to keeping global warming below 2 degrees centigrade. The cherry onthe cake would be that this is in place before 2020.

I’m delighted that there hadbeen an exceptionally large response to COP21 by artists. David Buckland fromCape Farewell says that climate change is a cultural issue, and has set upArtCop21, which lists global art events addressing climate change. I’mdelighted that Larsen’s Lost Water is included in this listing, and thatparticipating artists Lucy + Jorge Orta, and Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harveywill also be creating events for this in Paris over the next few days.”

One and All
Until 13 December, Somerset House, London

Installed at Somerset House,One and All is a voyage through sight, sound and sea by three leading artists,including Wimbledon College of Arts’ Tania Kovats. Working across art, languageand 3D sound, they capture the powerful connection we all have to our coast.

Dress forOur Time
St Pancras Station, London

In the lead up to COP21,London College of Fashion’s Professor Helen Storey MBE RDI unveiled hernew work Dress for Our Time at St Pancras International – the gateway toParis. Helen designed a dynamic piece of digital couture displayingdata which shows the impact of climate change on our physical world. Thedress display shows our planet, both as we know it now, and as it will be ifurgent changes aren’t made, to help change the way people think about andact upon the current threat to the environment.

Evaporation
Until April 2016, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester

Wimbledon College ofArts’ Tania Kovats explores the significance of our relationship withwater and the world’s seas and oceans in a brand new installation‘Evaporation’. Taking James Lovelock’s Gaia theory – of the earth as aninterconnected super organism – as her starting point, this new sculpturalpiece explores global bodies of water. Lovelock’s work focuses much attentionon the significance of the planets’ oceans as a barometer of its health, andhow better to understand how the planet regulates itself. As global seatemperatures rise and the impact of pollution is becoming increasingly clear,this work is more relevant than ever. Kovats’ installation is comprised ofthree large-scale, shallow, metal bowls reflecting the shape of the world’soceans lifted from the globe. Each bowl contains a solution of salt and blueink that gradually evaporates in a hydro-cycle, leaving a jewel-like crust ofsalt crystals in concentric rings. These are objects with their own tides;different each time a viewer sees them.

I Stood Up
8–11 December, Paris
Centre for Sustainable Fashion brings I Stood Up to the streets of Paris duringthe COP21 Climate Summit, facilitating dialogues through fashion artefacts,forming and voicing public concerns in relation to Climate Change.

StudentVoices for Change

As the last generation to beable to do something about climate change students at UAL are in a uniqueposition to take positive action in the face of climate change. The Centre forSustainable Fashion worked with LCF’s School of Media and Communication and alumnaAlix Hayhurst to create a series of podcasts exploring the issues.

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