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“New World” : An Act of Artistic Awareness | Alexis Tricoire Solutions for #Cop21 | Grand Palais #artcop21

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Alexis Tricoire – think back over the past ten years the role of nature in our society, on behalf of international institutions and companies. His view of nature, truly innovative and committed, always has the desire to raise awareness to respect for the environment.  He is recognized internationally for his stagings of vegetation, spectacular and unprecedented, lasting or ephemeral. Such as the park of Versailles Palace, the National Museum of Natural History, the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development, the EDF Foundation, the SNCF, the City of Fashion and Design, the Musée en Herbe, the Maréchalerie, D’Days, the Paris Design Week …

Located at the entrance of the Grand Palais, NEW WORLD presents itself as a “lock” Home Visitor Solutions COP21. This multi-sensory hut of 20 m2 over 6 meters high invites a powerful and moving experience, with the screening of a film made from NASA scientific data.  The artist calls us to build a NEW WORLD, where the preservation of natural resources is the basis of all action.

This Project is based on two solutions proposed by its partners facing climate change

ARCHITECTURE CERTIFIED WOOD PEFC – An organization that promotes the sustainable management of the forest. First source of certified wood in France and in the world (40 countries, 268 million hectares of certified forests), PEFC ensures the maintenance of wooded forest condition so that they play their role of CO2 sensor while ensuring a balance between the three functions of forests (economic, environmental and social).

COVER PLANT CONSISTS OF A THOUSAND PLANTS, MADE WITH SOPREMA, which, for 20 years, shows that the architecture related to vegetation, contributes to the necessary refresh cities, insulation of buildings, while bringing the urban nature.  A public sale of the plant will be organized at the end of the event the benefit of a support association for the preservation of the Amazon forest.

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meld was formed by a devoted group of individuals guided by a passionate belief in the power of art to convey personal experience and cultivate social progress. meld is inspired by the idea that when art melds into the public realm, it has the power to reach people beyond the traditional limitations of class, age, race and education and encourage public action.

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Gaia Eco Exhibition in Conjunction with #ArtCop21 #Cop21

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Featured Image: Yelena Lezhen  Dreams

Multicultural and interactive eco-exhibition that explores, through a selection of 24 international artists, the relation between women and the environment protection.  “Gaia” reveals anew perspective on Art and Environment. If contemporary creation has deeply addressed the issue of ecology on one hand , and of women’s condition on the other, no exhibition has combined two issues yet.

Keri Rosebraugh, Letter to my sister

The show gives the opportunity to artists from all around the world to respond, using their own mode of expression, the following questions:

  • What specific role women play in the struggle against climate changes?
  • How climate changes influence women’s condition in particular, and our human identities in general?
  • To what extent women’s changing role in today’s society can have an impact on the environment?
  • How artists, throughout their practice, can have an impact on climate changes?

Curator: Julia Rajacic

City Hall of Paris, Associative center “La Maison Bleue – Porte de Montmarte,l’Eclat de Verre

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meld was formed by a devoted group of individuals guided by a passionate belief in the power of art to convey personal experience and cultivate social progress. meld is inspired by the idea that when art melds into the public realm, it has the power to reach people beyond the traditional limitations of class, age, race and education and encourage public action.

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A Different Tomorrow by Su Rynard #artcop21

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by Guest Blogger Su Rynard

There is more than one way to look at the world, and scientists, like artists begin with questions, and both practices push the boundaries of knowledge and perception. As a filmmaker and media artist, scientists have inhabited my work for some time. I’m drawn to their research as a departure point for artistic inquiry. I don’t have a scientific background so every new piece I create begins with an exploratory journey.

I live in Canada where we have just endured a decade of anti-scientific government policy. In fact scientists around the world are to varying degrees, constrained by belief and ideology from all sides. This is clearly the case with climate change, where denial often trumps evidence-based research.

I have wondered if this denial has something to do with a societal need for visual evidence. Icons if you will – the need to see to believe. Consider the discovery of nuclear fission. The truth of this power is best understood through the visceral images of the destruction it caused, not the abstraction of the science itself. The same could be said of humans landing on the moon. The event itself was televised and the photograph of the whole Earth from outer space became the most reproduced image in all of human history.

Today landscapes are being transformed by global warming, and the tragic effects are visible. We now have tangible evidence of damage that will continue to occur unless humanity collectively succeeds in mitigating the effects of climate change. In 2005, Bill McKibben wrote about that very famous picture of the Earth taken from the moon. “Already that’s not the world we inhabit; its poles are melting, its oceans rising. We can register what is happening with satellites and scientific instruments, but can we register it in our imaginations, the most sensitive of all our devices?”

My hope is that by bridging the scientific and creative worlds artists can help bring climate to the forefront of cultural conversations. This was certainly a goal I had when I began my recent feature documentary film, The Messenger.

The Messenger is the artful story about the mass depletion of songbirds on multiple continents, revealing how the issues facing birds also pose daunting implications for our planet and ourselves. Filmed over two years on three continents, The Messenger is a moving and epic journey, as the film mixes its elegiac message with hopeful notes and unique glances into the influence of songbirds on our own expressions of the soul. Birds are winged sentinels, over time and across cultures, they have sent us signals about the health of our environment. Today once again, birds have something to tell us – and with this documentary, I wanted to amplify their message.

Birds killed

Today climate change poses a dire threat to birds worldwide, as thousands of species are highly vulnerable to global warming. In the words of Christy Morrissey, an eco-toxicologist featured in The Messenger, “We are changing the environment faster than birds can cope with. So we have to either stop what we’re doing and think about how to do it better, or pay the consequence of hearing total silence”. The changes in their behaviour and decline in their numbers are a warning. If the planet cannot sustain life for them, it cannot sustain life for us. In this way, the uncertain fate of the songbird is inextricably linked to our own.

Bear Cub

I’m pleased to have two short works Bear and Drowning London included in ikonoTV’s official ArtCop21 event Art Speaks Out. Art Speaks Out is an on-air exhibition of international video that reflect upon urgent global issues such as ecological devastation and climate change. The global event is part of ArtCop21, the official cultural program of the UN Climate Conference in Paris. Drowning London was inspired by predictions of rising sea levels. This one-minute video playfully animates an exaggerated flooding of the Thames while the city’s lost waterways transform London into a sea of blue. Bear was shot in Ontario, Canada, where black bears were documented foraging for food in their ‘natural habitat’ – the township dump. Set against an intermittent parade of people, SUVs and minivans – a fragile ecological relationship is portrayed.

Drowning London Detial

What these three works share is a tension between beauty and tragedy. Each in its own way is an exploration of the question of what we have to lose. In imagining this loss, my hope is to inspire change.

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From early video art to recent feature films, Su Rynard has worked across a range of approaches: dramatic, experimental, documentary, and photo installation. Her work has screened at film festivals world-wide and in galleries including the MOMA in New York and the National Gallery of Canada. Her debut feature dramatic film Kardia won the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize and her recent feature documentary The Messenger won Best Conservation Film at Jackson Hole Film Festival. Su Rynard lives and works in Toronto and is represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art.

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Artists and Climate Change is a blog that tracks artistic responses from all disciplines to the problem of climate change. It is both a study about what is being done, and a resource for anyone interested in the subject. Art has the power to reframe the conversation about our environmental crisis so it is inclusive, constructive, and conducive to action. Art can, and should, shape our values and behavior so we are better equipped to face the formidable challenge in front of us.

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Aerocene Around the world to change the world | Tomás Saraceno | Grand Palais | Palais de Tokyo #artcop21 #cop21

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How to revolutionize the usage of resources, through the new thermodynamic imagination and a sculpture that floats in the levels of stratosphere?

Tomás Saraceno’s artistic project Aerocene invites us to think of new ways to sense the circulation of energy and resources, actively reframing the material ethics and politics of our contemporary modes of moving, dwelling, and being-together, here on Earth. It pursues the vision of Cloud Cities, the previous undertaking of Saraceno.

DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES AT THE GRAND PALAIS

For COP21 Paris, the artist will present Aerocene in an outstanding sculptural installation at Grand Palais. At Palais de Tokyo, a symposium will be organized, and a series of actions and collective performances, based on open-source collaborative principles, will take place in various locations.

Tomás Saraceno’s artistic project Aeroceneis a series of air-fueled sculptures that will float in the longest, most sustainable journey around the world without engines, becoming buoyant only by the heat of the Sun and infrared radiation from the surface of Earth. The material realization is surpassed by the message it bears: Its aesthetic form follows a both utopian and real idea of open source force of movement. Inflated by the air, lifted by the sun, carried by the wind, the project questions and seeks answers to our current and troublesome dependency on fossil and hydrocarbon fuels and pollution – the topics that places Aerocene at the core of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP21 topical framework. Crossing the frontiers between art, science and education, it becomes a visionary and open platform of shared knowledge. Thus it seeks for the deep understanding of our planet and all its physical, natural and social entanglements in order to project new ways of how we can move, dwell and be-together here on Earth. www.aerocene.com

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meld was formed by a devoted group of individuals guided by a passionate belief in the power of art to convey personal experience and cultivate social progress. meld is inspired by the idea that when art melds into the public realm, it has the power to reach people beyond the traditional limitations of class, age, race and education and encourage public action.

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EcoStage Pledge Launches with #ArtCOP21 #cop21

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Every industry must engage with the reality of ecological consequences and the performing arts can be a unique and powerful platform to imagine and inspire new realities. The ecostage pledge is about commitment and values, because with a conscious set of shared values we have a greater capacity to take action.

What: The ecostage pledge (www.ecostagepledge.com) is a new global initiative for the performing arts sector that aims to place ecological thinking at the heart of creative practice.

Why: Envisioned as a public declaration and conversation starter to help raise awareness of ecological issues, the pledge is intended as a platform for advocating change. It consists of a set of ecological values and provocations aimed at engaging with ecological practice as a creative endeavour that deepens our relationship to the more-than-human world.

Who: The pledge is for performance makers, directors, designers, choreographers, producers, administrators, technicians, video and sound artists, performers and playwrights (basically anyone who is passionate about sustainability in the performing arts!).

How: To join a community of ecologically-minded theatre makers, go to www.ecostagepledge.com and take the pledge and download the ‘ecostage pledge stamp’.

This initiative has been instigated by three ‘eco-scenographers’ (Tanja Beer, Andrea Carr and Alice Malia) and will be launched globally in 2015/2016. Beginning at ArtCop in Paris on the 4th of December, the ecostage pledge will launch in Australia at Cop-Out (Arts House, Melbourne) on the 11th of December.

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The Standing March, JR and Darren Aronofsky collaboration for #Cop21 #artcop21

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Artist JR and filmmaker Darren Aronofsky collaborated on a major public artwork for Cop21 AT THE ASSEMBLÉE NATIONALE NOVEMBER 29th AND 30th AT 8pm-4am AND TRAVELING PARIS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK

Renowned French artist JR and Oscar-nominated American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky have collaborated on The Standing March, a major public artwork to be exhibited in Paris during the UN’s COP21 climate conference. The video projection will remind leaders that the world is watching as they gather to negotiate a deal aimed at keeping global warming below 2°C. It will be projected on the Assemblée Nationale starting at 8pm on Sunday, November 29th and Monday, November 30th, as over 25,000 officials gather, including Presidents François Hollande of France, Barack Obama of USA, Xi Jingping of China and  Narendra Modi of India. It will travel throughout Paris from December 1st until December 7th at the locations to be revealed on the artists’ social media accounts.

The video represents more than 500 persons from different backgrounds united around the idea that the conference must end up with meaningful agreementsn between the countries. The protagonists, who joined the artists after a call for participation, have been filmed separetely, rotatinf themselves on a green background and united to create a representation of humanity. 3D from the British group Massive Attack has composed the original soundtrack.

The COP21 gathers in Paris while the city and its inhabitants have recently suffered from a massive terrorist attack.
For security reasons, marches are forbidden in Paris. But our art piece is a silent march. And we are marching, backed by the Assemblée Nationale, the heart of the French democracy. We must think about our future, the future of our environment and this is our answer to those who want to control our present.

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meld is an ongoing interactive global art platform and collaborative catalyst to commission, produce and present ground-breaking and evocative works of art embedded in the issues and consequences of climate change. meld invites exceptional artists and innovative thinkers dedicated to the moving image and committed to fostering awareness and education to join us in our campaign for social change. Through a collaborative dialogue, we hope to provoke new perceptions, broaden awareness and education and find creative solutions concerning climate change, its consequences and its solutions.

meld was formed by a devoted group of individuals guided by a passionate belief in the power of art to convey personal experience and cultivate social progress. meld is inspired by the idea that when art melds into the public realm, it has the power to reach people beyond the traditional limitations of class, age, race and education and encourage public action.

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Brandalism: 82 Artists Install 600 Fake Ads Across Paris to Protest the #COP21 Climate Conference #artcop21

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Just days before the start of the UN COP21 Climate Conference held in Paris and during the French state of emergency following terrorist attacks earlier this November, 600 posters were covertly distributed and hung within the city. The posters were not taped to poles or distributed in public grounds, but secured behind glass at bus stops around the city. The large-scale posters were advertisement replacements, fake corporate ads designed by 82 artists across 19 countries to satirize messaging found throughout the Parisian streets.

Organized by the Brandalism project, the citywide sweep is meant to challenge the corporate takeover of the Paris climate talks, forming ads that target the link between corporations’ advertising with consumerism, global warming, and fossil fuel consumption. The posters reference many of the climate talks’ corporate sponsors including Air France, Dow Chemicals, GDF Suez (Engie). Many of the Photoshopped images use the same branding and voice as the original advertisement, forcing the audience to take a deeper look at the content of the hundreds of posters dotting their daily commute.

“By sponsoring the climate talks, major polluters such as Air France and GDF-Suez-Engie can promote themselves as part of the solution – when actually they are part of the problem,” said Brandalism’s Joe Elan.

by Christopher Jobson on November 30, 2015

Escif, Jimmy Cauty, Neta Harari, Bansky-collaborator Paul Insect, and Kennard Phillips were just a few of the dozens of artists who created posters for the Parisian installation. You can see many more of the 600 posters created to challenge the UN COP21 Climate Conference over on Street Art News and Brandlism’s own website

http://www.brandalism.org.uk/gallery

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meld is an ongoing interactive global art platform and collaborative catalyst to commission, produce and present ground-breaking and evocative works of art embedded in the issues and consequences of climate change. meld invites exceptional artists and innovative thinkers dedicated to the moving image and committed to fostering awareness and education to join us in our campaign for social change. Through a collaborative dialogue, we hope to provoke new perceptions, broaden awareness and education and find creative solutions concerning climate change, its consequences and its solutions.

meld was formed by a devoted group of individuals guided by a passionate belief in the power of art to convey personal experience and cultivate social progress. meld is inspired by the idea that when art melds into the public realm, it has the power to reach people beyond the traditional limitations of class, age, race and education and encourage public action.

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Blued Trees Emergency Crowdfunder! #artcop21 #cop21

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Nine people were arrested trying to protect the land under the Blued Trees Overture from pipeline corporations because they know that fossil fuels and “natural gas” are destroying the earth. Spectra Energy, developer of the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline expansion, is ignoring our cease and desist notification issued to protect the copyrighted Blued Trees Overture which had been lovingly and joyously created during the 2015 Summer Solstice by 20 men, women and children. Other folks taking part in the Blued Trees project are at various stages of painting at nine sites around the nation. This fundraiser would help pay for the legal research umbrella for all the sites and protect them from unconscionable eminent domain takings.

Blued Trees is on the frontline, demanding that eminent domain be reserved for the public good, not private profit! Our historic legal strategy aims to protect ALL the Blued Trees sites. We urgently need to raise $5,000 so our legal team can continue this new stage of its critical work.

The future of this unique, innovative legal challenge to corporate control of our communities depends on the commitment of people like you, who love nature and art. 

We really, really need you. Please visit the crowdfunding site by clicking here: Blued Trees Defense 2. Give as generously as you possibly can and help make history!

Please donate, and share this appeal now with everyone you know who is aware that our fight for the planet is going to come down to something new and untried, because the same old stuff does not work when we’re fighting the most powerful, wealthy corporations and their captured policymakers.

For a story about what’s currently happening at the site where the Blued Trees Overture is located, please visit the following link: http://westchester.news12.com/news/nancy-vann-of-cortlandt-manor-blocks-tree-removal-in-pipeline-controversy-1.11143447

Human Hotel is a hospitality platform for passionate people. #COP21 #ArtCOP21

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Human Hotel is a hospitality platform for passionate people. Host an NGO organiser in your home during the COP21 Climate Mobilization. 

Our Mission

We help local hosts and visiting guests connect and get more out of the events they both care about. We also make sure it costs very little. Because money is not what we’re passionate about – connecting people is.

Our Story

Born out of a social art practice, Human Hotel began in 2009 as a large-scale effort to secure affordable accommodation for the thousands of NGO’s and climate workers that had nowhere to stay while they attended the United Nations COP15 Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

During the summit, we were able to host more than 3,000 climate workers with local hosts, and therefore made possible an alternative meeting point for amazing people and bright minds.

Since then, we have successfully matched and connected thousands of traveling guests with local hosts for numerous events and organizations such as:

  • People’s Climate March & Mobilization (NYC)
  • Queens Museum Open Engagement Conference (NYC)
  • Creative Time Summit (NYC & Stockholm)
  • European Science Open Forum (Copenhagen)
  • NODE – Forum for Digital Arts (Frankfurt)
  • Rome Independent Film Festival (Rome)
  • US Social Forum (Philadelphia)
  • Copenhagen Gay Pride (Copenhagen)

For Event Organizers

Are you organizing an event and need help with accommodating your guests? Or just want to offer an interesting alternative and tap into your local resources? Send us a message to contact@humanhotel.com and lets start the conversation!

Our Team

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Cynthia Rosenzweig (MELD) will be participating in the Opening of the Summit of Creatives #COP21 #artcop21

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Tuesday 1 December 2015 at 14h30: Live stream http://gaite-lyrique.net/rencontres

From Rio to COP21, what has been the impact of the cultural industry on societal transformation? How has it changed over time, and in particular, how were artists involved and included by policy makers? The opening of the Summit of Creatives is an opportunity to review the involvement of the cultural industry and inspire artists to get involved and put culture on the agenda of the negotiations.

Hurricane Sandy Damage on Staten Island  Photo Credit Somayya Ali

With Kevin Buckland (UK), from 350.org, Anne-Marie Melster, Co-founder and Head of ARTPORT_making waves (USA), Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Curator of Devenir Terrien at Musée de l’Homme (FR), Frédéric Ferrer, author and director (FR), Cynthia Rosenzweig, climatologist (USA), Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, poetess (Marshall Islands), Teresa Borasino, Head of the festival Futuro Caliente in Lima – COP20 (PER), Anna Heringer, architect (CH). Moderated by the ArtCOP21 team.

Dr Cynthia Rosenzweig in conversation with Shaun Gladwell Photography Corine Weber

Dr. Rosenzwig will give the scientific frame of the Opening by sharing her voice as a climatologist on climate issues but also on the negotiations. She will also speak extensively about her vision on why culture and the arts are so important to tackle climate challenge, to make climate issue visible and sensitive aside from the negotiation

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meld is an ongoing interactive global art platform and collaborative catalyst to commission, produce and present ground-breaking and evocative works of art embedded in the issues and consequences of climate change. meld invites exceptional artists and innovative thinkers dedicated to the moving image and committed to fostering awareness and education to join us in our campaign for social change. Through a collaborative dialogue, we hope to provoke new perceptions, broaden awareness and education and find creative solutions concerning climate change, its consequences and its solutions.

meld was formed by a devoted group of individuals guided by a passionate belief in the power of art to convey personal experience and cultivate social progress. meld is inspired by the idea that when art melds into the public realm, it has the power to reach people beyond the traditional limitations of class, age, race and education and encourage public action.

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