Climate Change: Cultural Change
Part of the World Culture Summit in Newcastle Gateshead in June 2006, this month-long programme brought together new artist commissions, events and exhibitions. It reached a large number of people in the region and achieved extensive local and national media coverage.
Highlights included:
Come Hell or High Water, Michael Pinsky: a fleet of luminescent cars struggled, almost submerged, up The River Tyne at Newcastle Quayside. By day, the roofs of the brightly coloured cars made a meandering line; by night they were lit internally, the light reflected and absorbed into the Tyne's flowing waters.
Cape Farewell: Water-Mist Wall and outdoor exhibition. A video loop filmed in the Arctic including enigmatic sayings projected onto the face of a glacier; "Sadness Melts", "Burning Ice", "Black Abyss", and "The Cold Library of Ice". The work was projected onto a 5 by 4 metre water-wall.
A further exhibition by artists, writers, choreographers and architects including Max Eastley, Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread and Ian McEwan.
NorthSouthEastWest: a 360° view of climate change. Images by ten photographers from the Magnum Photographic Agency.
Van Conversion Day: from diesel to vegetable oil; a carnival atmosphere in a public place.
Climate Change: Cultural Change was a £110k project. Sponsors and partners included Helix Arts, The Arts Council, Northumbrian Water and the RSA.
