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Burning Ice: Art & Climate Change

Written as a travel journal, the publication highlights works created by artists as well as providing scientific explanations and a wealth of images. The Cape Farewell project made three expeditions to the Arctic polar circle in 2003, 2004 and 2005 aboard a 100-year-old schooner. On these expeditions participants investigated global warming by exploring the space where this process and its possible repercussions are most readily analysed: the polar ecosystem.

The expeditions took a multidisciplinary approach. Those taking part included artists, geographers, oceanographers, teachers, ecologists, writers, and a film crew who have borne witness to the entire project.

The team conducted oceanographic experiments while also pursuing artistic projects inspired by this fragile ecosystem. The overall aim is to draw attention to the issue of global warming by analysing the impact of CO₂ emissions on this part of the planet.

The artworks covered by the book include ice sculptures, dance projects, writing and video art. The works created by artists and the scientific explanations offer a human-scale frame of reference for coming to grips with a problem that often seems far away and difficult to grasp.

Details:

·         Burning Ice: Art & Climate Change, eds. David Buckland, Ali MacGilp and Sion Parkinson (London: Cape Farewell, 2006), 176 pages with colour illustrations, written in English.

More information:

·         The book is available from INDOC, the CDAN’s Art and Nature Documentation Centre.

·         Official web site for the Cape Farewell project
 

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