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CULTURAL CALENDAR - CLIMATE FESTIVAL - PARIS 2015
Global programme for the 21st United Nations
Conference on climate change
Paris 2015
Contents
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Introduction
Artistic Initiatives
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Performances, discussions, shows, screenings, concerts, lectures, interactive workshops and artistic experiments
Monumental art installations and collections
Institutions involved
International mobilisation
Decisive assemblies
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The headquarters of ArtCOP21 at La Gaîté Lyrique
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Conference of Creative Parties
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Professional workshop
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COAL “Art and Environment” Prize and “Oceans” Prize
Artistic direction
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Cape Farewell
Practical Information
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Partners
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Press images
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Contacts
Introduction
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ArtCOP21
CULTURAL CALENDAR - PARIS CLIMATE FESTIVAL 2015
“Artists, by their sensitivity and particular awareness, can be mediators of this
perception concerning the fragility of humanity and of the planet” Christopher Miles,
Vice General Secretary of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication
Lucy + Jorge Orta, Antarctica, 2010 - Rights Reserved
Today, a movement that combines social change and creativity is emerging across
the globe. The 21st United Nations Conference on climate change, held in Paris from
November 30th to December 11th 2015, is a decisive step towards negotiating a future
international agreement in the fight against climate change. But it is also an opportunity
like no other to promote before the general public and political representatives other
ways of understanding the complexity of the climate challenge through a multitude
of creative and innovative approaches.
In 2015, now more than ever, culture is involved in the political agenda, acting like a
stakeholder in negotiations on climate change. Through ArtCOP21, culture confirms
its central role in ecological transition and sustainable development.
The Conferences of the Parties (COP) are technical events practically inaccessible for
the uninitiated. The negotiations focus on figures, quotas and financial investments.
This exclusively political and scientific approach causes citizen disengagement, even a
feeling powerlessness and inaction if the real culture of change is absent. The ecological
transition is the opportunity for a new era in which artists and the cultural world
participate by inventing new stories, new representations, other ways to produce, to
perceive and think.
Inbtroduction
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The UN has officially recognized the direct link between culture and the three pillars of
sustainable development (economic, social and environmental), while confirming that
culture is both the catalyst and driving force for sustainable development.
In autumn 2015, thousands of participants, foundations and NGOs, driven by their
commitment to change the world, will be present in Paris.
ArtCOP21, wants to transfer this energy to the public through the medium of art by
proposing a calendar of cultural events.
ArtCOP21, the cultural calendar of Paris Climate Festival 2015, proposes an artistic
itinerary uniting the best cultural initiatives of COP21 with a political agenda.
David Buckland, Discounting the future, 2010
ArtCOP21 Intentions
- Include culture in the political agenda of climate change
- Position the artist as the stakeholder in debates about climate
- Mobilize and unite everyone involved in the ecological transition
- Offer artists a framework of action and expression as part of COP21
- Take concrete action to mobilise citizens and increase awareness of environmental
protection
- Educate and support participants for better integration of sustainable development
in the management and policies of the cultural sector
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Overview
- 150 events in the cultural calendar
- More than 100 institutions involved
- 20 international artists
- 25 projects co-produced by COAL,
- 10 events co-produced by Cape Farewell
- #Copbox hashtag campaign
Thierry Boutonnier, Éteindre l’eau, Performance, Centre d’art Le Lait, 2011, Ph. Phoebe Meyer
Key Dates
17th September
- COAL Art & Environment Prize Ceremony
- Launch guide
From 1st to December 11th
- Headquarters of ArtCOP21, Gaîté Lyrique
16th November
- Particle Falls, Mona Bismarck American Centre
29th November
- RAR, National Museum of Natural History
4th December
- The Passport Office, the Grand Palais
3rd and 4th December
- Professional workshop in the cultural sector, Gaîté Lyrique
7th-9th December
- Conference of Creative Parties - daily panel talks at the Gaîté Lyrique
An artistic journey
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ArtCOP21, an artistic journey
across Paris
September - December 2015
Launch of the
interactive website
17/09/15
www.artcop21.com
Conceived as a platform to stimulate and encourage artists and other creatives to
respond to climate issues, ArtCOP21 showcases the best cultural initiatives at COP21.
In total, over a hundred participants and cultural institutions, French and international,
will bring their best initiatives combining art and ecology to the ArtCOP21 cultural
calendar. These cultural initiatives include exhibitions, discussions, performances,
screenings, concerts, readings, participatory workshops and artistic experimentation.
ArtCOP21 offers an artistic itinerary from September to December, principally in the
Paris region but also internationally.
COAL and Cape Farewell have co-produced nearly 25 events on the ArtCOP21 program.
An artistic journey
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More than 25 art events co-produced by
ArtCOP21, almost 100 participants on the
cultural calendar ...
Olivier Darné et le Parti Poétique, Change ! La république forestière, 2015.
ArtCOP21, the cultural calendar of Climate Paris 2015, has co-produced more than 30
art events and brought together in one place almost 100 cultural organisations.
Overview of cultural organisations who are currently developing their program for
COP21:
UNESCO, the Ministry of Culture and Communication, Tokyo Palace, the Cartier
Foundation, the Gaîté Lyrique, the 104, the Museum of Hunting and Nature, the
Pompidou Centre, the National Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Man,
the Sorbonne, the Swedish Cultural Institute, the Mona Bismark American Centre,
Universcience, the Departmental Domain of Chamarande, La Maréchalerie, la REcyclerie,
Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Department for Energy and Climate Change, le Carreau
du Temple, le Laboratoire, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
Science Festival, Millennium Gallery St. Ives, University of Leeds, Carbon Arts London
Phytology Gardens, Unfix Festival, Tara Expeditions, Ecohustler, Free Word, Pivotal
Festival of Change, the FIAC, the House of Writers and Literature, la Nuit Blanche, les
Berges de Seine, le Bourget, le Parti Poétique, Mains d’oeuvres, C40 Cities, Tidal Lagoon
Swansea, On the Move, University of the London Arts, la Réserve des Arts, Artists For
Earth, IMAGINE 2020, CliMates, Studio Orta, Trans305, Zone sensible, Carbon Arts, We
Love Green, Association FACE
and many more to follow ...
Workshops, events, exhibitions and encounters....
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Already on the programme ...
Robert Montgomery, The Sentinels, présenté par COAL et Nuke - FIAC Hors les Murs 2015, Jardin des plantes.
... family outings at the Pompidou Centre
Impromptu workshops for COP21
On the 1st Sunday of each month, from October to December and during the Christmas
holidays, the Impromptu workshops will be devoted to COP21. In partnership with
COAL, the Pompidou Centre invites renowned artists such as Barthélémy Toguo to
design creative workshops around climate change for younger guests (3-11 years).
... shows: Kyoto Forever 2 by Frédéric Ferrer at the Agora Theatre
Tuesday, 8th December, 8pm
On stage, eight comedians of eight nationalities will unite in an attempt to curb global
warming on a global scale. With Théâtre miroir directly inspired by UN international
conferences on climate taking place since 2008, Kyoto Forever 2 uses journalistic
rigor and humour to dramatize facts, figures and quotes.
... writers responding to climate change at la Maison
des Écrivains et de la Littérature La MEL works
alongside writers to address climate issues,
organizing readings where writers share their
thoughts and concerns.
... conferences: “Changing eras: the science and arts of the Anthropocene” COAL - FIAC
Outside the Walls / MNHN
From 22nd to 24th October, the FIAC, in partnership with the MNHN and COAL, organizes
the cycle of conferences “Changing eras: science and arts of the Anthropocene” with
artists Pascale Marthine Tayou, Otobong Nkanga, Hicham Berrada and researchers
Patrick Blandin, Christophe Bonneuil, Vinciane Despret, Cynthia Fleury, Eva Moreno
and Bruno Latour. Produced by COAL.
Art installations and collections
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... art installations and collections
The COP Box
Berges de Seine, 11th July – 28th August
then in several partner sites until COP21
A project by COAL and Lemoal&Lemoal Architects
Graphics: Camping design - Application Development: Onatys
The COP Box is a participation booth placed in public spaces allowing any citizen to
record a personalized video message for negotiators of the 195 countries involved.
These messages will be shared on social networks and with the General Secretary of
COP21. Focused upon increasing awareness of climate issues, this booth will be the
symbol of citizen mobilization throughout ArtCOP21.
The COP Box will be launched at the ArtCOP21 festival, sponsored by Artevia for Berges
de Seine 11th and 12th July. It is mobile and will be moved across different cultural
spaces in Paris until COP21. Follow #Copbox #Cop21
ArtCOP21 Festival on the Berges de Seine 11th and 12th July
With ArtCOP21 Festival on the Berges de Seine, COAL provides
a weekend of public participation in the great debates of
COP21, through artists’ involvement in the major issues
surrounding global warming.
Art installations and collections
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Radical Action Reaction
Ackroyd & Harvey
In six national French theatres during autumn
The Botanical Gardens of the National Museum of Natural History
29th November - 3rd December 2015
Co-production COAL
Ackroyd & Harvey, RAR, 2015 sketch - Below: Testament, 2011 - photographic installation of grass seedlings..
Radical Action Reaction (RAR) is an art project proposed by the duo of internationally
renowned artists Ackroyd & Harvey for ArtCOP21, in an extension of their work Beuys’
Acorns based on the renaissance of 7000 planted oaks in Kassel in 1982 by the artist
Joseph Beuys.
In autumn 2015, the Beuys’ Acorns piece
- composed of one hundred oak saplings
sprung from the acorns of Beuys’ trees – will
be exhibited in national theatres of Bordeaux,
Lyon, Mulhouse, Nantes, Nice, Tourcoing. Each
exhibition will be accompanied by conferences
and debates concerning adaptation to climate
change.
On November 29th at the Jardin des Plantes, a monumental art installation of a
magnificent tree will be unveiled in front of a curtain of living grass to open COP21.
It celebrates the role of trees in the adaption of urban spaces in response to climate
change. The symbolic tree will join the Arboretum at the National Museum of Natural
History, acting as a catalyst for a series of public plantations and responses in a cultural
network committed to increasing awareness of climate issues.
Art installations and collections
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The Office of Universal Passports
Antarctica
Lucy + Jorge Orta
Grand Palais, in the context of COP21 Solutions
4th -10th December
Co-produced by COAL
Lucy + Jorge Orta, Antarctica World Passport Delivery Village, Shanghai, 2012, Ph. Justin Jin
Below: Lucy + Jorge Orta, Antarctic Village, 2007, Thierry Bal
This installation and interactive work highlights the urgent need for reflection about
the role of humans in a fragile environment and society where climate refugees are
increasingly numerous. Universal Passport Antarctica was designed by artists to
encourage every human being to become a member of World Community Antarctica,
allowing them to act for the protection of the environment on a global scale.
With over 60,000 copies of passports
currently in circulation, the objective of this
work is to encourage citizens to take part
in protecting threatened environments
against climate change and bring peace.
At the Grand Palais, within the COP21 Solutions framework, Lucy + Jorge Orta have
created a full-size monument replica of a passport distribution office. Each visitor will
be issued a passport and invited to sign a commitment charter.
Art installations and collections
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Particle Falls
Andrea Polli
Mona Bismarck American Center
16th November - 13th December 2015
Andrea Polli, Particle Falls, 2014, Ph. Jared Rendon Trompak
“The air is invisible. We can neither see nor touch it which means we show little interest
in it. But it is important to be more aware of what is happening with our air and discuss
it” Andrea Polli
Particle Falls is both an aesthetic work and a pollution sensor in public spaces, allowing
passers-by to determine real-time air quality with its level of fine particles thanks to
spectacular digital and light installation. Particle Falls will be projected onto the front
of the Mona Bismarck American Centre building.
Andrea Polli was one of ten artists nominated for the Art et COAL Environment Prize
in 2011. This project was suggested to ArtCOP21 by COAL.
Art installations and collections
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One Heart One Tree
Naziha Mestaoui
Eiffel Tower
29th November – 4th December 2015
Naziha Mestaoui, One Heart One Tree, 2015
From virtual to reality, artist Naziha Mestaoui invites us to share the experience of One
Heart One Tree, an outstanding application through which the beating of our hearts is
used to power a tree. A specialist in visual and sound projections, the Belgian-Tunisian
artist Naziha Mestaoui has created a spectacular work of art that will transform the
capital into a forest of light during COP21.
At the point where virtual and real coincide, this project is primarily a citizen project.
One Heart One Tree intends to establish, via a smartphone app, a virtual tree that will
be symbolically projected onto major monuments across the capital, including the
Eiffel Tower. Each virtually designed tree will have a tangible impact, since it will lead
to the planting of a totally unique, registered and real-life tree.
This tree will be planted through reforestation projects taking place across the five
continents producing a series of positive social and environmental initiatives. Planting
a tree captures CO2, cleans the air and water, regenerates biodiversity and produces
natural fertilizers. Through One Heart One Tree, the goal is to plant millions of trees!
The distance between reality and virtuality is bridged by this fantastic innovation. At
the heart of this project is the intention for technology to reconnect us with nature.
www.1heart1tree.org
Art installations and collections
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Change! Forest Republic
Olivier Darné and poetic party
September-December 2015
Forest Republic Workshop Lycée Suger, March 20, 2015, Ph. Olivier Darné
A new urban forest participation project in the Paris, Plaine Commune and Seine SaintDenis areas will increase the flora density in urban environment.
Change! Forest Republic is an “Ecosystem Project” creating a forest that will produce
several thousand trees in the next two years for planting in urban wastelands. A
collaborative and participatory project, it will involve several thousand adults and
children, drawing their attention to the consequences of global warming on the region.
The objective of this project is to bring together all the conditions needed to create a
new green lung and urban forest in the Paris, Plaine Commune and Seine-Saint-Denis
areas.
Olivier Darné won the COAL Art & Environment Prize 2012 for his project la Banque de
Reines (Bank of Queens).
Art installations and collections
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Auberflux
Stefan Shankland
In Aubervilliers, throughout 2015
Stefan Shankland, Le Monde changing art ..., approach HQAC Aubervilliers, 2014. Photo Damien
Stefan Shankland develops what he calls a ‘High Artistic and Cultural Quality’ approach in
Aubervilliers around the worksites extending line 12 of the Metro, causing Aubervilliers
market to be reorganised. The HQAC approach helps to anchor the local presence
in debates on territorial transformation, metropolitan migration, urban deterioration
and climate change. It takes shape spring 2015 with the construction of the Ferragus
Moutier-pass; at once a garden open to the public, street furniture, an outdoor exhibition
space and temporary work of art (2015-2017).
For COP21, the HQAC team will set up a program of public restorations as part of
Auberflux interactive research and inspire new ways of working with residents of a city
undergoing such transformation.
Stefan Shankland was awarded the Prix COAL Art & Environment 2011 for his Marble d’ici
(Marble from here) project currently visible as part of the “Habiter” (Living) exhibition
at the departmental Domain of Chamarande (shared Commissioner COAL).
Institutions involved
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... institutions involved
Museum of Hunting and Nature
Exhibitions, publications, conferences and
cultural activities for COP21
May-December 2015
Sterling Ruby, Black Stoves, 2014
Echoing COP 21, the Museum of Hunting and Nature presents a series of proposals
related to climate. The American artist Sterling Ruby will present the “Black Stoves”
exhibition that consists of a series of wood stoves monuments installed outdoors.
Regularly fed with logs, they heat the atmosphere needlessly, highlighting the
carelessness in our concern for managing the environment.
Number 7 of Billebaude review will be dedicated to the Anthropocene and accompanied
by a cycle of conferences on this subject. A projection and creative workshop for young
people will propose reconsideration of the ecological crisis.
Current exhibition Åsa Sonjasdotter
May 21st to September 26th, 2015
Throughout the summer, in partnership with the Swedish Institute,
Åsa Sonjasdotter’s installation, A
meteorological history of food and
revolution, is presented in the museum courtyard of the Museum of
Hunting and Nature.
Institutions involved
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GRÖN ATTITUDE! At the Swedish Institute
Reflections, dialogues and solutions for a
sustainable world
May - December 2015
Hanna Ljungh. Video extract Vedergällning, 2007. The image has been modified.
GRÖN ATTITUDE! Reflections, dialogues and solutions for a sustainable world is
organized by Swedish institutions in France as part of COP21. Intelligent solutions
to be implemented in everyday life, innovative concepts from France, Sweden and
beyond: how can we make the most of them? With the Swedish Institute acting as HQ,
Sweden offers contemporary art exhibitions on nature and recycled textiles, seminars,
a planting performance, cycling session, workshops on sustainable heritage and the
Do-It-Yourself project...
COAL will lead a conference on September 26th alongside three artists of the “According
to Nature” exhibition; Åsa Sonjasdotter (COAL Prize winner 2014), Henrik Håkansson and
Hanna Ljungh, an exhibition currently on show at The Swedish Institute until October
25th.
Institutions involved
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La Gaîté Lyrique
Program around climate and
ecological issues
December 2015
Camping Sauvage, Sophie Guerrive for Captain Future, 2015
La Gaîté Lyrique engages with climate and ecological questions during COP21 to
provide a program suitable for all ages. Captain of the future, the program of Gaîté for
children, explores the theme of wild camping through concerts, lectures, screenings
and workshops addressing the inert and active aspects of nature.
For youth and adults, la Gaîté will screen a projection of the film-essay World Brain by
Stéphane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon while the new cycle of documentaries Tour
of the day programmed by Benoît Hické addresses the issues related to the climate
conference at the end of the year.
Most importantly, during the twelve days of COP21, the Gaîté Lyrique becomes the
headquarters for ArtCOP21, and will host a packed schedule of talks, workshops,
exhibitions and events.
International mobilisation
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... international mobilisation
Tania Kovats
Lovelock Art Commission
1830 Warehouse Space, Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
October 22nd, 2015 - March 27th, 2016
‘All the Seas’ Global postal engagement project to collect samples of each of the earth’s 300+ seas
On the 22nd October 2015, Cape Farewell will launch the second Lovelock Art
Commission at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester.
The Lovelock programme invites artists to respond to scientist James Lovelock’s Gaia
hypothesis of the earth as an interconnected super-organism. This year, internationally
acclaimed artist Tania Kovats explores our relationship with the world’s seas and
oceans in a brand new art installation ‘Evaporation’.
Comprising of three large-scale steel bowls reflecting the shape of the oceans lifted
from the globe, each with their own ‘tide’. Each bowl contains a solution of salt and
blue ink, which gradually heats and evaporates in a hydro-cycle, leaving a jewel-like
crust of salt crystals in concentric rings. Works created from an equivalent evaporation
process will also be displayed across the space. Alongside this work will be ‘All the
Seas’ – a global postal engagement project to collect samples of each of the earth’s
300+ seas.
Tania’s work will also contribute to a special choral commission by renowned BBC
Proms ‘Gaia’ composer Jonathan Dove. The world permiere of ‘The Wave’ will be be
performed by musicians and performers from the Northern Royal College of Music
in the heart of the gallery space on the 25th October 2015.
This show promises to be a moving celebration and exploration of the huge diversity
– and enormous importance – of the seas and their crucial function as a barometer
of the earth’s health.
ArtCOP21, the event also comprises of four
decisive assemblies for the COP21 Agenda
HeHe, Métronome, 2012
Decisive Assemblies
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COAL Art and Environment Prize
Climate and the Oceans COAL Prize Award Ceremony 17th September 2015
Museum of Hunting and Nature
Cai Guo-Qiang, The Ninth Wave, Shanghai, 2014, Ph. JJY Photo, courtesy Cai Studio
In five editions, the COAL Prize has become the international assembly of artists
committed to ecological transition. With more than 1,000 projects sourced from more
than 60 countries, the wealth of artist responses to ecological issues is revealed on an
unrivalled scale. In 2015, the COAL Prize is programmed for ArtCOP21 and invites artists
from across the entire world to respond to climate challenge.
The 10 nominees for the 2015 COAL Prize are: Collective Disaster (Belgium), Alex Hartley
(England), MELD and Shaun Gladwell (USA, Greece, Australia), Mare Liberum (USA), Julie
Navarro (France), LIVIN studio (Austria), Monte Laster (France), and Aram Kebabjian
Stefane Perraud (France) and FICTILIS - Andrea Steves and Timothy Furstnau (Canada).
The winner of the COAL Prize will receive financial assistance towards the work’s creation
and will be invited in residence at Belval, property of the François Sommer Foundation.
For the 2015 edition, COAL is launching a special “Oceans” Prize in partnership with Tara
Expeditions. The 6 nominees for the “Oceans” Prize are: Nicolas Floc’h (France), Jeremy
Gobé (France), Hortense Le Calvez (France), Mrugen Rathod (India), Elsa Guillaume
(France) and Henrik Håkansson (Sweden). The winning artists will embark on the Tara
expeditions boat for the mission “coral reefs in the face of global change”,Pacific Ocean,
2016/2018.
The judge panel 2015 is proudly composed of Emma Lavigne, director of the Centre
Pompidou-Metz; Claude Anthenaise, chief curator of the Museum of Hunting and
Nature; Agnès b., fashion designer and co-producer of Tara expeditions, Anne Ged,
director of the Parisian Agency for Climate; Philippe Cury, research director at IRD and
specialist in oceanographic biology.
Decisive Assemblies
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ArtCOP21 at the Gaîté lyrique:
headquarters of culture throughout COP21
1st -11th December, 2015
By COAL and La Gaîté lyrique
FAME Conference Teenage Kicks, 2014, Ph. Teddy Morellec
During the twelve days of COP21, la Gaîté lyrique will become the headquarters of
ArtCOP21, and will host a packed schedule of talks, workshops, exhibitions and events.
At least forty partnerships, assemblies, debates, projections, performances, concerts,
resources, video games, workshops, brunches ... All opportunities to exchange, meet
and reflect together on the wider cultural issues of climate and ecology.
Daily media programming during the day (3-6pm) 1st-11th December inclusive- and
taking place in the evening (7pm onwards) Tuesday to Friday.
Round table conversations, debates and artistic performances will address the climate
challenge and question ecology in a creative and innovative manner. Collective
intelligence and digital climate service, deconstruction and clarification of language
to rethink the climate and ecological crises, practical cultural responses, citizen
mobilization through culture and reflection on UN Model negotiations, will be among
the topics explored.
The programming of la Gaîté lyrique : Further material
Throughout COP21, La Gaîté Lyrique will also show a selection of digital works
addressing the climate challenge in a dedicated space.
Decisive Assemblies
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ArtCOP21 professional workshop:
for better integration of sustainable
devolopment in culture
At the Gaîté Lyrique on 3rd and 4th December 2015
By COAL, On the Move, Julie’s Bicycle, IFACCA (International Federation of Art Councils
and Culture Agencies) IETM (international network for contemporary performing arts),
Green Art Lab Alliance and Ecoprod.
Caliente Festival Futuro / Foro Público, COP 20 in Lima, 2014, Ph. Peter Seinfeld
ArtCOP21 will unite for two days the key participants and pioneering initiatives in the
cultural sphere and sustainable development in order to strengthen and professionalize
a real international trend in the sector.
This workshop will transversely address pollution and carbon footprint, green mobility,
eco-designs, public awareness, the use of digital technology, business models of culture
and financial support of cultural policies for sustainable practices, among others.
Following the workshop, the participants will adopt a manifesto of common
commitments valuing the contribution of the cultural sector. A resource-guide of
sustainable development in the cultural and artistic sector will also be published and
promoted online to the attention of cultural activists and multidisciplinary projects.
Decisive Assemblies
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The Conference of Creative Parties,
an international summit for artists
1st - 11th December 2015.
Location to be confirmed
By COAL and Cape Farewell
Vik Muniz, Paisagem, 2012 (participatory work conducted as part of the Rio + 20 summit) - Courtesy Vik Muniz Studio
The Conference of the Creative Parties is a series of daily public talks that focuses on
imagination, creativity and collaboration to build and invent a new response to the
climate issues that will be debated at the same event, in Paris, by the negotiators of
the 21st United Nations Conference for Climate Change (COP21).
Over twenty creatives, artists, architects, scientific and international thinkers, eloquent
and inspiring, will unite in order to engage with the public, to develop the conception
of a positive and sustainable world. Taking place at la Gaîté lyrique will be a series of
talks from the 1st-11th December. See website for full details.
Round table conversations, debates and artistic performances will address the climate
challenge and question ecology in a creative and innovative manner. Collective
intelligence and digital climate service, deconstruction and clarification of language
to rethink the climate and ecological crises, practical cultural responses, citizen
mobilization through culture and reflection on UN Model negotiations, will be among
the topics explored.
Alternating between private and public assemblies, interactions with the public, the
artists of the Conference of the Creative Parties will be tasked with drawing up a cultural
manifesto for the world of tomorrow.
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Coalition art et développement durable
The association was established in 2008
by professionals in contemporary art,
sustainable development and research
in the common goal of promoting a true
culture of ecology. In a multidisciplinary
and innovative spirit, COAL mobilizes
artists and cultural operators with regards
to social and environmental issues in
partnership with institutions, NGOs,
scientists and businesses, supporting
creation and culture to increase awareness
and implement concrete solutions. These
Reconciliations between culture, art,
ecology and sustainable development are
now the subject of a major international
movement in which COAL participates
as the principal French participant.
In 2015, COAL becomes a member of
IMAGINE2020, the first EU cooperation
network on Art and Climate Change.
Since 2012, COAL has been associated with
the Domaine Departmental programming
of Chamarande around Sustainable
Culture: two exhibitions per year, dozens
of outdoor installations, artists’ residences,
a rich program of cultural actions for the
public attention that has already seen
more than 300 000 visitors. On October
11th 2015 for the Science Festival, the
Domaine of Chamarande and COAL will
launch the first laboratory dedicated to
sustainable culture.
In 2015, COAL will become an official
invited to the European Centre of
Contemporar y Ar tistic Ac tions in
Strasbourg for the 2015-2016 season et
the artistic director of Stuwa, a new Art
and Nature agenda of Sundgau.
From 2011 to 2013, COAL collaborated
with the Ministry of Ecology, of sustainable
development and energy to develop a
national strategy of citizen mobilization.
In this time, COAL notably created
ressource0.com, the first media to create
a catalogue of art related to ecology,
gathering thousands of contributors and
information.
Since 2009, the COAL Art and Environment
Prize each year invites personalities of art
and ecology to reward one of the involved.
Over 1000 projects by international artists
addressing ecological issues have been
collected, revealing the magnitude of this
new culture.
In 2010 COAL directed the “Brut Nature”
exhibition proposed by WWF in parks
and gardens of the City of Paris for the
International year of biodiversity, which
was attended by more than 500 000
people.
Every year COAL organizes a cycle of
lectures The Art and Science of Nature
with the FIAC and the National Museum of
Natural History for FIAC Outside the Walls
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Cultural Influencer
Since 2001, Cape Farewell has worked
internationally to unite artists, scientists,
communicators and leaders to develop
a creative organisation that acts as a
catalyst change. Cape Farewell invites
artists, writers, musicians and directors
to develop a creative language reflecting
the urgency of climate challenge. Using
creativity to innovate, Cape Farewell
today demonstrates ten years of
experience engaging the public in the
crucial dialogue on climate change.
It is time to find solutions together
to the greatest challenge of our time.
Cape Farewell, as an indispensible and
enthusiastic adventurer, invents a future
better than the present. In 2013, Cape
Farewell collaborated with scientific and
cultural participants addressing the effects
of climate change and presented an
exhibition and festival “Carbon 14: Climate
is culture “, which was attended by more
than 2 million people. In the “Carbon 14”
program, the scientist environmentalist
David Suzuki took part in a sham trial to
discuss the threat of climate change and
man’s responsibility.
Inspired by his trip to the Arctic in 2005
with Cape Farewell, Ian McEwan wrote the
award-winning novel Solar. The book has
sold 400,000 copies and has been hailed
as “the book of our time “by the New York
Times. In 2005, Cape Farewell produced
Art from the Arctic, a documentary aired
on BBC 2 and BBC World viewed by 11
million people.
For “Earth, Art of a changing world” an
exhibition at the Royal Academy of the
Arts in 2009, more than 154,000 pages
were visited on the website. The TV and
radio that broadcast the event included
BBC World, BBC Radio 4 - Front row, BBC
Newsnight and Channel 4 news. In total,
“Earth Art of a changing world” reached
over 300 million viewers. “Art and Climate
Change” was shown for the first time at
the National Museum of Natural History
in London in 2005. It was then displayed
in Liverpool, Hamburg, Madrid and Tokyo
finishing at Cranbrook Art Museum,
Michigan. More than 380,000 visitors have
seen the exhibition.
Practical information
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ArtCOP21 is labelled as the official Paris Climate 2015 Programme by the General
Secretary of COP21 (MAE and MEDDE) and the City of Paris
Financial partners
The European Union and the IMAGINE 2020 network
The General Secretary of COP21
The Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy
The Ministry of Culture and Communication
The Agency for Environment and Energy Management (ADEME)
Region Ile-de-France
The General Council of Seine-Saint-Denis
The City of Paris
Plaine Commune
Art Council England
Compton Foundation
The institutional partners of major assemblies
IMAGINE 2020
La Gaîté Lyrique
The IFACCA (International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies)
On the Move
Julie’s Bicycle
IETM (international network for contemporary performing arts)
Green Art Lab Alliance
Ecoprod
Tara Expeditions
The Museum of Hunting and Nature
Ushuaia TV
FIAC
The Swedish Institute
Mona Bismarck American Centre
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Captions and Visuals Credits
1 - Lucy + Jorge Orta, Antarctica, 2010 Rights Reserved
2 - Lucy + Jorge Orta, Antarctica World Passport Delivery Village, Shanghai, 2012, Ph Justin Jin.
3 - Solar Sound System, opening of the exhibition «Living» Domain of Chamarande,
Ph. Henri Perrot
4 - Rachel Whiteread, Embankment, Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, 2005 Ph Sjoerd Ten Kate.
5 - David Buckland, Discounting the Future, 2008
6 - David Buckland, Burning Ice 2008
7 - Ackroyd & Harvey, Testament, 2010
8 - Ackroyd & Harvey, RAR, visualization planting ceremony at MNHN 2015
9 - Thierry Boutonnier, Turn off the water, Achievement, Art Center Milk, 2011 Ph Phoebe Meyer.
10 - Stefan Shankland, The world is changing art approach HQAC Aubervilliers, 2013
Ph. Damien Lequeux
11 - Lemoal Lemoal & Architects / Design: Design Camping, 2015
12 - Sterling Ruby, Black Stoves, installation, Ph Robert Wedemeyer, courtesy Sterling Ruby Studio and
Gagosian Gallery
13 - Grön Attitude! Reflections, exchanges and solutions for a sustainable world - Swedish Institute, 2015
Ph. Julien bourgeoi
14 - Åsa Sonjasdotter, High Diversity, 201415 - Hanna Ljungh. Extract from the Vedergällning video. The image is modified, 2007
16 - Camping Sauvage, Sophie Guerrive for Captain Future, 2015
17 - HeHe, Metronome, 2012
18 - Cai Guo-Qiang, The Ninth Wave, Shanghai, 2014, Ph JJY Photo courtesy Cai Studio.
19 - Futuro Caliente / Foro Público, COP 20 in Lima, 2014, Ph Peter Seinfeld.
20 - Vik Muniz, Paisagem, 2012 Courtesy Vik Muniz Studio
21 - Andrea Polli, Particle Falls, 2014 Ph Jared Trompak Rendon.
22 - Andrea Polli, Particle Falls, 2014 Ph Jared Trompak Rendon.
23 - Olivier Darné and Poetic Party Forest Republic, 2015, The Poetry Party
24 - Olivier Darné and Poetic Party Forest Republic, 2015, The Poetry Party
25 - Workshop forest Republic Lycée Suger, March 20, 2015, Ph Olivier Darné.
26 - Nathalie Blanc and David Christoffel, climate Memoirs, 2015 - Ph Garance Marcon.
27 - Robert Montgomery, The Sentinels, 2013 Rights Reserved
28 - Lucy + Jorge Orta, Antartica Village, 2007, Thierry Bal
29 - Kisseleva, Urban Datascape, Berges de Seine, 2015
30 - Naziha Mestaoui, One Heart, One Tree, 2015
Contacts
Information
and contacts
The headquarters ArtCOP21 to lyric Gaîté
1st to December 11, 2015
Ask for the program info@artcop21.com
www.artcop21.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ArtCop21/727690630646019
https://www.facebook.com/projetcoal
#Artcop21
Lauranne Germond
2 rue Caffarelli
75003 Paris
+33 (0)1 75 57 87 63
lauranne@projetcoal.fr
www.projetcoal.fr
Cape Farewell
Lucy Wood
University of the Arts Chelsea
16 John Islip Street
London SW1P 4JU
+44 (0)207 514 8079
lucywood@capefarewell.com
www.capefarewell.com
Presse
Ingrid CADORET
Agence Hexagramm
18 bis avenue de la Motte-Picquet 75007 Paris
Tél : 01 48 78 85 25 / 06 88 89 17 72
ingrid .cadoret@hexagramm.fr
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