Carbon 14: Climate is Culture
Four months of cultural engagement with one of the most pressing issues of our time
Carbon 12
An exciting mix of art commissions and science encompassing biodiversity, atmospherics and oceanography at Espace Foundation EDF in Paris.
4 May–16 September 2012
Espace Fondation EDF, Paris
The CARBON 12 exhibition opens in Paris on 3 May at the Espace Foundation EDF. The exhibition encompasses biodiversity, atmospherics and oceanography — earth, wind and sea. Five artists who have worked with climate scientists exhibit their artworks alongside the scientific enquiry.
The exhibition features:
- Artists Lucy + Jorge Orta
Amazonian Biodiversity Research / ECI - Artist Annie Cattrell
Wave technology from Heriot-Watt University, Orkney - Artist Erika Blumenfeld
Bio Luminescence / Dr Michael Latz / SCRIPS USA - Artist David Buckland
Marine Biology with Dr Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez - Artists HeHe
Jean-Marc Chomaz / Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
“What Carbon 12 makes clear is that although the arts and humanities have much to say in regard to climate change, this is by no means a direct translation of climate change science, nor is it the articulation of a warning in regard to human activity. Rather, this is a creative response that makes vivid a complex, often paradoxical, sensual and emotional engagement with the environment. And, this is precisely the terrain on which hearts and minds are won.”
Review by Elizabeth Staughan in Nature Climate Change
Read the Nature Climate Change review
Carbon 12 press release PDF 1Mb
See Also
Carbon 13
Newly commissioned work by eight international artists at Ballroom Marfa, Texas
Cloud Crash
The third of our Lovelock Art Commissions, artist duo HeHe