Archived Events
Climate Change in Context
Bob Spicer
12/09/2009
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Barbican Study Day Event
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The climate of the Earth has never been constant and there is a vast record of the patterns and process of change in the rocks around us: a record that shows that computer models used for predicting the future are likely to underestimate what is both possible and likely. Humans are altering the Earth System in a way that has never been seen before but, also for the first time in the history of...
Climate change changes everything
Joe Smith
12/09/2009
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Barbican Study Day Event
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Climate change is almost always presented as an urgent near-term science and policy problem. But this fails to recognise how climate change forces us to revise how we think about our ethics, politics and culture. It prompts entirely novel questions about how human beings relate to the world. To call it 'the greatest challenge facing humanity' is to underestimate its significance...
‘A bilious shade of green’? Installation Art and the Environment: Problems and Possibilities and Roni Horn’s Melting Glaciers
Gill Perry
12/09/2009
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Barbican Study Day Event
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Over the last few decades artists have been engaging in various ways with both the ‘natural’ environment and ecological issues. This paper will introduce some of the controversies and debates confronting artists, critics, historians and theorists engaged with these concerns. It will explore some problems of definition, and the complex and differing ways in which art – in particular installation...
Between a rock and a melting place
12/09/2009
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Barbican Study Day Event
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Drawing on selected images from their work over the last twenty years, Ackroyd & Harvey will chart their entry into the unknown territory of the high arctic and the complex world of a changing climate.
Curatorial Concerns
Michaela Crimmin
12/09/2009
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Barbican Study Day Event
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In the run up to COP15 (United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, December 2009), a personal take on a number of anxieties, interests and opportunities.
Chomskian Abstract
12/09/2009
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Barbican Study Day Event
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Chomskian Abstract (film, 2007) Introduction and showing of 6 minutes extract of film.
Discussion with all Speakers
Bob Spicer, Gill Perry, Joe Smith, Michaela Crimmin
12/09/2009
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Barbican Study Day Event
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Chaired by Gill Perry.
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