Cape Farewell, UK
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Cape Farewell brings artists, scientists and communicators together to bring about long-term change in cultural attitudes towards climate change
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Created by artist David Buckland in 2001, Cape Farewell has led seven expeditions to the High Arctic
, the frontline of climate change including two youth expeditions. From these expeditions has sprung a body of artwork:
The project is widely acknowledged to be the most significant sustained artistic response to climate change anywhere in the world.
The last expedition in September 2008 was to Disko Bay on the west coast of Greenland. The Art/Science crew begin on 25 September working in partnership with the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
, The University of Southampton
and British Geological Survey
, the scientists extended their investigations of climate change. More details about the expedition can be found on the Cape Farewell website, including blogs written by some of the crew. The crew for the 2008 expedition included Musicians Laurie Anderson
, Vanessa Carlton
, Jarvis Cocker
, Leslie Feist
, Robyn Hitchcock
, Ryuichi Sakamoto
, KT Tunstall
, Martha Wainwright
, Luke Bullen
, Beatboxer Shlomo, Composer Jonathan Dove
, Comedian Marcus Brigstocke
, Theatre Makers Mojisola Adebayo, Suzan-Lori Parks
, Artists Kathy Barber, David Buckland, Sophie Calle
, Jude Kelly
, Michèle Noach, Tracey Rowledge, Julian Stair, Chris Wainwright, Architects Francesca Galeazzi, Sunand Prasad
, Poet Lemn Sissay
, Photographer Nathan Gallagher, BBC presenter Quentin Cooper
, Senior Lecturer (Open University), Joe Smith, Activist David Noble, Media Executive Lori Majewski and Film Director Peter Gilbert join Oceanographers Simon Boxall, Emily Venables and Geoscientists Carol Cotterill and Dave Smith.
Climate change
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...
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Created by artist David Buckland in 2001, Cape Farewell has led seven expeditions to the High Arctic
Arctic
The Arctic is a region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treeless permafrost...
, the frontline of climate change including two youth expeditions. From these expeditions has sprung a body of artwork:
- An exhibition curated with the Natural History Museum and now on tour with the Barbican Art Gallery, International Department. The exhibition comprises a range of media including photographic work, video, installations, and prints from a selection of leading contemporary artists including Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Alex Hartley and the novelist Ian McEwan. The exhibition was last shown in Tokyo during the G8 meetings (July 2008) where it was opened by Sarah Brown, wife of Gordon Brown.
- A film co-produced by the BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
Art from a Changing Arctic - A book Burning Ice
- The CD ARCTIC by Max Eastley http://www.capefarewell.com/content/cd-eastley.php
- Educational resources for GCSE Geography and Science
- A UN award-winning websiteWebsiteA website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
- Ongoing arts and events programme.
The project is widely acknowledged to be the most significant sustained artistic response to climate change anywhere in the world.
The last expedition in September 2008 was to Disko Bay on the west coast of Greenland. The Art/Science crew begin on 25 September working in partnership with the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
The National Oceanography Centre, Southampton describes the integrated collaboration between the Southampton-based part of the Natural Environment Research Council’s National Oceanography Centre, and University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science...
, The University of Southampton
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...
and British Geological Survey
British Geological Survey
The British Geological Survey is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research. The BGS headquarters are in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, but other centres...
, the scientists extended their investigations of climate change. More details about the expedition can be found on the Cape Farewell website, including blogs written by some of the crew. The crew for the 2008 expedition included Musicians Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson
Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...
, Vanessa Carlton
Vanessa Carlton
Vanessa Lee Carlton is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Upon completion of her education at the School of American Ballet, Carlton chose to pursue singing instead, performing in New York bars and clubs while attending university. Three months after recording a demo with producer Peter...
, Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus Cocker has led a successful solo career...
, Leslie Feist
Leslie Feist
Leslie Feist , known professionally as simply Feist, is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene....
, Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar....
, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto
After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
, KT Tunstall
KT Tunstall
Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist from St Andrews, Scotland. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland...
, Martha Wainwright
Martha Wainwright
Martha Wainwright is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle...
, Luke Bullen
Luke Bullen
Luke Bullen is an English drummer and percussionist. Bullen studied at top London drum school Drumtech and joined the band Addict in 1995; the band was signed to V2 Records in 1996...
, Beatboxer Shlomo, Composer Jonathan Dove
Jonathan Dove
Jonathan Dove is a British composer of opera, choral works, plays, films, and orchestral and chamber music. He has arranged a number of operas for English Touring Opera and the City of Birmingham Touring Opera , including in 1990 a famous 18-player two-evening adaptation of Wagner's Der Ring des...
, Comedian Marcus Brigstocke
Marcus Brigstocke
Marcus Alexander Brigstocke is an English comedian, actor and satirist who has worked extensively in stand-up comedy, television, radio and in 2010-2011 musical theatre. He is particularly associated with the 6.30pm comedy slot on BBC Radio 4, having frequently appeared on several of its shows...
, Theatre Makers Mojisola Adebayo, Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks is an African American playwright and screenwriter. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Topdog/Underdog.-Early years:...
, Artists Kathy Barber, David Buckland, Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines...
, Jude Kelly
Jude Kelly
Judith Pamela Kelly OBE is a theatre director and producer from Liverpool, England.Kelly founded Solent People's Theatre, a touring company in 1976, and was artistic director of the Battersea Arts Centre from 1980 to 1985. In 1986, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company...
, Michèle Noach, Tracey Rowledge, Julian Stair, Chris Wainwright, Architects Francesca Galeazzi, Sunand Prasad
Sunand Prasad
Sunand Prasad MA , AA Dip, PhD , PPRIBA, FRSA, HonFRIAS, HonRTPI, HonFRAIC is Senior Partner of architectural practice Penoyre & Prasad LLP, a multi sectoral practice with an internationally recognised profile in health, education and civic buildings. From 2007 to 2009 he was President of the Royal...
, Poet Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay MBE is an award-winning British author and broadcaster of Ethiopian and Eritrean parents.He is known for performances of his poetry and also with jazz fusion groups. He is a playwright, and has worked on radio and television...
, Photographer Nathan Gallagher, BBC presenter Quentin Cooper
Quentin Cooper
Quentin Cooper is a science journalist and current presenter of The Material World on Thursday afternoons and Connect on BBC Radio 4 less frequently on Wednesday nights...
, Senior Lecturer (Open University), Joe Smith, Activist David Noble, Media Executive Lori Majewski and Film Director Peter Gilbert join Oceanographers Simon Boxall, Emily Venables and Geoscientists Carol Cotterill and Dave Smith.