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Climate change and the visual arts

Climate change and the visual arts. VAGA / Engage Scotland Scottish Book Trust, Edinburgh Thursday 27th August, 2009. Justin Carter j.carter@gsa.ac.uk www.justincarter.info.

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Climate change and the visual arts

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  1. Climate change and the visual arts VAGA / Engage Scotland Scottish Book Trust, Edinburgh Thursday 27th August, 2009

  2. Justin Carterj.carter@gsa.ac.ukwww.justincarter.info

  3. ‘Initially borrowed from evolutionary biology, the term ‘adaptation’ has come into widespread use in the climate change literature. In a way, it is a misleading term, because it implies reacting to the consequences of climate change once it has occurred. However, just like our efforts to limit the warming of the worlds climate, adaptation as far as possible has to be anticipatory and preventative’.(Anthony Giddens - The Politics of Climate Change, 2009)

  4. A new project commissioned for the Whitstable Biennale 2004. Sustainable Indulgence

  5. Signage detail

  6. Serving up

  7. Aims & Objectives:Design & fabricate low impact structure for producing, preserving & distributing ice cream.To operate a production system where demand and supply are constantly in balance. Economic production dictated by nature.(logic of local ingredients)A social platform testing alternative technology.

  8. In transit

  9. Ice innards

  10. Staff show

  11. Towers folley

  12. Unforseen difficulties:Weather (lightning!)Ice cream wars Hearne Bay. (official warning)Outbreak fliesOngoing concern - (input/output analysis) Do the means justify the ends? (Specifically relating to transport and high cost)

  13. Van

  14. Sustainable indulgence IIFor Aichi Expo 2005, Japan.Crossovers at Toyota Museum.

  15. Toyota Museum

  16. Grapes

  17. Kitchen

  18. Invited to do new project for Crossovers UK.Opportunity to modify design in terms of weight, use and new context, (culturally and institutionally).

  19. Aims:To re-design work to be as small and light as possible to travel as sea freight to reduce carbon footprint.A new challenge - to operate within gallery/museum context.

  20. Deeper Aims:To develop art work that acknowledges its journey/existence after and during the point of exhibition.Intelligent ‘design’ - hybridisation. (ie. Cushioning of work becomes insulation)Holistic outlook - Product as process. (work is work whether exhibited or not)

  21. No Logo

  22. Packing

  23. Collecting crate

  24. Solar ice

  25. Davidmuseum

  26. Alex Lockett & Ian England

  27. Project Pigeon: Pictorial
 Featuring work by Justin Carter, Lisa Cheung, Tom Dale, Ole Hagen, Ming de Nasty, Lindsey Seers, and Simon Woolham, delivered by carrier pigeon. 6.30pm, 27th August - 6th September Insertspace, Digbeth, Birmingham

  28. http://www.insertspace.org.uk

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