Upcoming Exhibition: ECC-Italy, Venice, 2024: April-November
Venice Exhibition Proposal, 2024 (declined by artist)
Focus on Climate Disruption
We invite your support for an important climate educational art and science presentations series taking take place during the Venice Biennale in 2024. This series, in conjunction with the European Cultural Center, is designed to promote climate change activism, and it will feature world-renowned scientists, celebrity activists, and artists.
Our goal is to provide young minds with critically important knowledge and positive motivation from very influential voices in the field of climate change; activists leading the fight for change, scientists who have conducted groundbreaking research, and artists who are using their creativity to inform and inspire action. Students will gain a deep understanding of what climate change refers to, the role oil and gas play in modern energy production and consumption, Earth climate systems and how important their voices and actions are in the fight for an equitable, sustainable and just existence.
Our program will offer a one-of-a-kind opportunity for students to explore the intersection of art and science, and to see firsthand how these disciplines can be used to address some of the most pressing challenges facing our world today, to make a real difference in the lives of future generations. We invite you to be a part of this transformative journey.
As a thank you, your name or brand will be featured in our collaborative exhibit as a contributing sponsor which will be viewed by thousands of budding global citizens. You have an opportunity to leave a clear and memorable legacy in the fight to save this amazing planet we love so much and the many wonderful animals and ecosystems gifted to us as part of our evolutionary heritage.
Please feel free to reach out directly.
Thank you in advance for the generosity of your time.
The Venice Biennale is one of the most prestigious art exhibitions in the world..
[https://www.labiennale.org/it/news/i-numeri-della-59-esposizione-internazionale-d%E2%80%99arte]
Over 800,000 total tickets sold (data as of 1pm on 26/11/2022. + = increase from 2019 event)
4,062 average visitors per opening day
79,402 (+ 23.67%) (4,733 groups) participating in educational activities and guided tour services
Educational Activities
39,244 (+ 12.58%) young people and students from schools of all levels and universities who took part in the Educational Activities
1,858 groups
6,416 teachers involved in the Educational Activities at the exhibition site
3,040 teachers involved in the dedicated previews
1,044 schools visited the Exhibition
António Guterres has warned of a ‘highway to climate hell’
‘Act decisively before it is too late’
“This is the closest the clock has ever stood to humanity’s darkest hour – closer than even during the height of the Cold War. In truth, the Doomsday Clock is a global alarm clock. We need to wake up – and get to work,”
Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr., April 1963
“Like so many experiences of the past we were confronted with blasted hopes, and the dark shadow of a deep disappointment settle upon us. So we had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.”
A presentation example (to be held in the Palazzo del Cinema) ~3-4hrs:
-MC sponsors acknowledgement, introduction of summer long programs, guests for today
-Xiuhtezcatl Martinez talk and musical opening
Prof. Nandita Bajaj on Pronatalism & Coercive Pro-Birth Policies
-Félix Pharand-Deschênes Earth systems visualization video
Intermission
-MC sponsors acknowledgement, introduction of Prof. William E. Rees
- Professor William E. Rees Overshoot and human population dynamics: What can we do?
- Xiuhtezcatl Martinez closing performance
We live in a world that is rapidly changing and one of the most pressing issues we face today is climate change. The younger generation will inherit the consequences of the actions we take today and it is our responsibility to equip them with the knowledge and tools they need to address this issue.
The warnings about climate change are clear and urgent, observable in the increasingly frequent use of such phrases as “more rapid than expected” and “faster than expected or previously thought" in recent scientific studies on ice melt, ocean sea surface temperatures, the accumulation of greenhouse gasses and so on. The accelerating warming effects have been continually underestimated in climate models because they do not yet fully include the devastating carbon feedbacks to global warming. Recent trajectories are now 2°C, a major shift from 1.5°C which was a line in the sand to prevent widespread systemic ecological collapse.
Participating Scientists:
Dr. William E. Rees, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia and former director of the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at UBC,is recognized worldwide. He is the originator of ‘ecological footprint analysis’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQTuDttP2Yg
Prof. Nandita Bajaj, Adjunct Faculty, Institute for Humane Education, Antioch University New England, Executive Director of Population Balance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKWuR4UfFG0
Dr Jem Bendell, Professor of Sustainability Leadership, Founder of the Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria, Founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum and the co-Founder of the International Scholars’ Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCXTeYv5f4
Dr. Peter Kalmus, Physicist, Climate Data and Modeling Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxDzx9p8UP4)
Prof. Dr. Nicholas Froitzheim, Geochemistry/Petrology, University of Bonn, Germany, PhD in Natural Sciences, Geological Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich
Dr. Timothy Michael Lenton FGS FLS FRSB, Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
Artist Roster:
Félix Pharand-Deschênes, Founder of Globaïa, defining the visual narrative of the Anthropocene—the age we inhabit. His work has been published by National Geographic and used by the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and Netflix. His film, Welcome to the Anthropocene, created with Owen Gaffney, opened the second Earth Summit, Rio+20. In 2018, he became a fellow of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship.
Morag Mckinon, BAFTA-winning filmmaker in conjunction with film and television composer Jim Sutherland, Edinburgh, Scotland (Film premier of When Fish Began to Crawl April 15th, 2023 https://www.dynamicearth.co.uk/visit/whats-on?id=8114)
Michael Angelo Caci http://michaelcaci.com Martin Jarmick, professor at California State University, Northridge https://www.martinjarmick.com/
Juan Pampin, Professor and Chair of the UW Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), and an Adjunct Professor of Music Composition at the UW School of Music http://www.pampin.org/
Exodus
Multi-Media on Panel, 42" x 72"
Michael Caci’s unique multi-media works are masterworks of contemporary representational art! He is an artist so obsessed and dedicated to the perfecting of an artistic vision! I'm now very pleased to present the culmination of that artistic dedication and vision. From the artist’s initial concept to completion, with every layered detail meticulously applied, layers woven over and under layers, this incredible work took sixteen months to accomplish!
Frederick Holmes & Company Gallery , 309 Occidental Avenue South
Seattle, Washington 98104, P206.682.0166
Can Humans build a durable society? I documented one of my typical days, morning to night, as an exercise. I considered all my fossil fuel interactions: everything I wore, ate, touched, consumed, the glasses on my face, heated water, food containers, napkins, morning greens, yogurt production, plastic containers, fruits, vegetables, nuts in poly-carbonate vegetable containers, the fertilizers used to grow them, the nails - shipping, mining, manufacturing equipment - holding our house together, automatically loomed socks, shirts, nylon jackets, the computers I type on and discard from obsolescence, all throughout the entire day the fingerprint of fossil fuel energy was everywhere, connected to everything. Try it sometime. Trace the organic soil you use in the garden. Is it green? Mixed by hand without any sort of machine? FF energy has its fingerprint on every substance and every aspect of life in the modern world. Are drastic changes in our modern lifestyles necessary to save the planet? If we don’t change our modernist habits, will our planet do the job for us? Do we have a choice? Do you believe shifting into solar, wind, geothermal sources of energy can supplant FF energy? Do you believe more technology might save the world? How do you know?
“…only serious self-examination, a colossal global exercise of consciousness-raising, clear-headed analysis of biophysical data/trends, a rethink on the economy-as-subsystem of the ecosphere and an unprecedented degree of international agreement and selfless cooperation for the common good (of humanity and nature) can succeed in taming overshoot.”
Dr. William E. Rees, Overshoot: Cognitive obsolescence and the population conundrum, Open Access, 10.3197/JPS.63/99953906865
The Global Monitoring Division of NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory has measured carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases for several decades at a globally distributed network of air sampling sites. This graph shows monthly mean abundance of carbon dioxide globally averaged over marine surface sites. (Image credit: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory)
In the 1970s Dr. James Hanson famously appeared before Congress with a clear message of danger from the continued burning of oil and methane (Nat gas). Big Oil, mainly Exxon and Koch Industries, responded quickly. They designed and implemented a program of denial and disinformation against what was a clear threat to their business models. One might wonder why, knowing Hanson was correct, they would undertake such an obviously suicidal plan.
In the last decade, scientists have published detailed studies on dwindling ice sheets, slowing ocean currents, sea level rise, ocean acidification, rapidly increasing ocean sea surface temperatures, widespread extinctions, losses in arable land, etc. etc. There’s been a constant litany of planetary ecological distress caused by heat trapping greenhouse gasses which have affected every strata of earth-related system on which life depends. We’re like the farmer who, looking out his window proclaims, ”look ma, gonna be a lovely day” while tornadoes form.
Collapsing human populations, increasing human migration will accelerate in the coming decades from extreme weather and food shortages. Scientific publications are using headline words such as “more rapid”, “far faster”, “more rapid than previously thought or expected”. Will modern nation states come together against these threats? If they do will it be too little, too late? Will untested and dangerous technologies, such as atmospheric solar dimming, be injudiciously deployed?