7/2/2023 0 Comments David balzer curationism![]() In late 2015, at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson and geologist Minik Rosing unveiled Ice Watch. (A two-year study published by UCLA in 2006 indicated the film and television industry was responsible for an estimated 140,000 tons of emissions a year in Los Angeles alone.) Are the creative industries the world’s most hypocritical polluters? These and so much more have significant carbon footprints. We’re used to seeing the arts as a torchbearer for environmental awareness: clarion-call documentaries on global warming, even Hollywood films about environmental dystopias large-scale photographs depicting industrial exploitation biennials and conferences themed on the Anthropocene. ![]() From fields of litter left behind at music festivals to the space heaters used during sweltering summers by employees at climate-controlled museumAs-not to mention all that travel-creative industries are not immune to environmental impact. ![]()
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