Projects tagged
Environment
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The Comfort Illusion
Read more: The Comfort IllusionThe Comfort Illusion is a solo aural performance that highlights the effects our everyday actions can have on the environment. Through mixed media storytelling using sound and lighting, Adams narrates the life of “The Overkiller” a fictional villian who negatively…
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Air Pollution
Read more: Air PollutionAn artist who sparked significant awareness regarding the issues of climate change was Olafur Eliasson. Eliasson’s main objective has been to catch people’s attention and make them feel emotions and care about climate change because many people do not connect…
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Luxury Ruins Tour Project
Read more: Luxury Ruins Tour ProjectThe environment is one political topic that has become more significant in countries all around the world. One current example of this can be seen in Madrid with the Madrid Central program, introduced in an effort to lower carbon emissions…
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Plastic Waste
Read more: Plastic WasteThe political artist I chose to investigate is Ruth Peche, a Spanish sculptor and photographer. Her themes tend to center around plastic waste and the impact it has on the environment, using this as a muse for describing the relationship…
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Embarassing Plastic Bags
Read more: Embarassing Plastic BagsEast West Market in Vancouver, British Columbia have made it clear that they are very concerned about the effect that single use plastic items have on the environment. In order to address this concern, they now charge their customers for…
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Seed Action Cork
Read more: Seed Action CorkAs part of the Creativity and Change postgrad course,(www.creativityandchange.ie) we created a street action. It was designed to raise awareness about climate change, and promote Climate Case Ireland, while also inspiring people to think of visions for the future and…
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Climate Case Ireland Punch & Judy
Read more: Climate Case Ireland Punch & JudyThis piece draws on the agit-pop theatre tradition of a short pop-up provocative & disruptive intervention in familiar spaces. The purpose of Punch & Judy style short piece is to inform and raise awareness Ireland’s failure to meet its carbon…
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Rattlin’ Bog Flash Mob
Read more: Rattlin’ Bog Flash MobA This flash mob was designed to deliver a message to raise awareness and deepen understanding about the immediacy of the climate change problem. By subverting the lyrics of the Rattlin’ Bog, we appealed through music to the hearts of…
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Earthrise
Read more: EarthriseWhat he captured became one of the most influential images in history. A driving force of the environmental movement, the picture, which became known as Earthrise, showed the world as a singular, fragile, oasis. Earthrise did not have an immediate…
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Monuments to Illegal Garbage
Read more: Monuments to Illegal GarbageThis urban action was consisted from mapping of over 50 locations of illegal garbage disposing sights and signing of 16 places across Macedonia where people dispose large amounts of heavy garbage and constructive waste. Idea of this action was to…