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The Arctic is making a cameo in New York this month, as the Brooklyn Museum houses The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want by Tavares Strachan. "In 2005, Tavares Strachan journeyed to the Alaskan Arctic and worked with a skilled team to extract a single two-and-a-half ton piece of ice from a frozen river. This ice block was shipped to the Bahamas (the artist's birthplace) and exhibited there in hot summer weather, kept cold in a specially designed freezer powered by solar energy," which is now at the museum. The sun keeping the ice freezing? Far out man.
Of course, this couldn't have come at a more appropriate time, just yesterday it was reported that new satellite images show massive amounts of ice breaking away from the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, which for the most part has been stable for the last century. Since last Friday around 270 square miles of ice, that's almost the size of New York City, has broken and dropped off into the sea. Strachan's ice block is, of course, meant to draw attention to current and potential climactic changes, like this atmospheric warming that yielded the demise of the ice shelf. It's now on view outside of the Museum's south entrance, and on view through September 2009, at which point it will be evaluated to see if it can last through the winter.
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It's perfectly natural for ice shelves to shed huge chunks of ice as more snow and moisture accumulate on the top and push the ice outward. Using a different lightbulb or driving one of those electric fairy-mobiles won't do a damn thing to stop them.
Predictable as always. If this was 500 years ago, you'd be one of those "the Earth is flat" people.
Predictable, can't argue on facts or substance, can only engage in ad hominem attacks.
Everybody on Gothamist knows you're the resident fundamentalist neocon who hates everything having to do with progress, knowledge, science or anything else from those, heaven forbid, liberals.
It isn't flat?
I think this piece of shit, oops I meant art, ranks up there with the "Sistine Chapel" and the series that the Keane family did, you know the kids with the big eyes. Especially their teary eyed period paintings.
It would have been a great conceptual piece...if there was a concept.
I like this idea.
Kind of hilarious/horrible. What happened to "take only photographs, leave only footprints"? How about just leaving the Arctic alone and not damaging it further by 1) flying there, 2) taking a huge chunk of ice, 3)creating huge amounts of C02 by shipping it all over.
i got a chance to see this at the pierogi boiler room gallery before that exhibit closed - very cool. pun intended!
To raise awareness of receding arctic ice caps, an artist actually takes some ice from the arctic, then burns a shitload of fuel to have it taken to the Bahamas, and burns yet even more fuel to bring it to New York.
A solar powered freezer is a clever idea, but you actually use more energy creating solar cells than they will ever return. So that doesn't work.
What is the carbon footprint of this stunt? It rank up there with Al Gore flying around in a private airliner to talk about the evils of carbon emissions.
Here's an idea if you want to help the environment: don't pull crap like this.