Artist Lauren Bon, on display on the Los Angeles River. Bon and her nonprofit Center for Arts and Research have spent more than a decade on a project called “Bent River.” The initiative pumps water from the Los Angeles River in downtown Los Angeles, washes it and uses it to irrigate Los Angeles State Historical Park.
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Politics, science and law are not the only areas of influence Climate change policy – Industry insiders say art should not be underestimated when it comes to direct intervention.
According to the organization that oversees the Arts Programme at the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC), which began in Nice, France on June 9 in the city of Nice, France, art plays a “important” role in shaping environmental governance.
According to Markus Reymann, co-director of the Foundation for Contemporary Art and Advocacy, TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary art, art and culture can “re-establish” relationships with the environment and the people who live in it.
At UNOC, TBA21 will oversee approximately 20 activities, including exhibitions, seminars and panel discussions, to increase awareness and engagement about the ocean around the themes of regeneration practices and sustainability. Through an email statement, the initiative “aresponding to the crucial role of culture and art in advanced political decision-making.”
The exhibition “Becoming an Ocean: Social Dialogue About the Ocean” is part of UNOC and is the work of more than 20 artists exploring the main challenges facing the Ocean”. TBA21’s website.
“(The art) can nurture and nurture us now to experts outside the outside and outside care and agencies – scientists will take care of this, politicians will take care of this… So we (feel us) do nothing but consume and make money to make money.
Artist Maja Petric’s “Time Specimens: Spectrum” includes luminous “sculptures” that show the natural environment. Peterrick said she felt “urgent” to preserve the memory of this landscape.
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This is the subject that artist Maja Petric has to do with.
She told CNBC via video call that her lighting installations or “sculptures” were designed to evoke how people feel when they experience their original nature. When asked if her work could impact climate policy, she said in an email: “As an artist, I don’t speak on indicators or policies. But there is evidence: Everyone is wandering in the work, sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes for hours.”
In May, Petric won the Innovation Award for his work “Time Specimen, Hoh Rain Forest, 2025”, as part of the Digital Art Awards presented by Gallery.
The sculpture appears in the form of a glass cube that glows based on real-time temperature data captured from Hoh Rain Forest near Seattle, Washington, changing color. “The idea is: if… there are no such landscapes in the future, but how will we view them?” Peter said of her work.
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Exploring the impact of human beings on the natural world is not only contemporary art.
“Historically, the greatest contribution artists have made in the context of environmental risks is a reminder of the wider society.
Godfrey Worsdale, director of the Henry Moore Foundation, said works like John Constable’s “Cloud Research” remind people of the importance of the natural world. “Cloud Research” was filmed at an auction at the London auction house Sotheby’s on June 22, 2022.
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Vosdale also pointed to the German artist Joseph Beuys’ “7000 Oaks” project, which for this purpose, the artist and his team planted 7,000 oaks, one of which is outside the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, England. “It is growing steadily as modern cities rotate around them. But, as we know, oak grows slowly, and the world is changing faster and faster,” Vosdale said.
Lula Rappoport, community coordinator for the Gallery Climate Alliance, said art can make climate crisis “easier to understand and act on.”
“The biggest obstacle to meaningful policies is how abstraction and huge climate change feels,” Rappoport told CNBC via email. “Art can bridge this gap by helping us understand challenging concepts and imagine alternative futures.” Rappoport cited 2018’s Ice Watch London, which saw artists see Olafur Eliasson brings 24 large ice cubes From the icebergs of Greenland to London, as an example of how art literally brings distant concepts to the vicinity of home.
For artist Ahmet Ogut, art has “power and agency,” he said, without waiting to be recognized by politicians or scientists.
“Art does not require permission, it works in parallel systems, activates new imaginations, forms temporary communities and provides tools for resistance,” he said in an email to CNBC. Ogut points to artist Lauren Bon’s “Bending River”, a large project Transferred water from the Los Angeles River Irrigation of public land as an intervening work of art that is directly in the ecological infrastructure and creates “a form of citizen compensation.”
“Beuys’Corns” is an installation by Art Duo Ackroyd & Harvey, consisting of 52 trees collected from the 1982 Artwork by German artist Joseph Beuys, “7000 Oaks”. The work can be seen on a Bloomberg arcade in London.
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Ogut’s work “preserved by the tail of the whale (preserved by art)” will be launched at the Stratford Metro Station in London on September 10, “inspired by the events that took place near Rotterdam in 2020, when trains covered the tracks and were preserved by the tail of the whale,” Transportation website in London.
“Art can help us stop pretending we are separated from the earth,” said Augut. “The future is not about the big declaration, but consistency, unity. This is where art begins.”
Ogut also argues that artists were included in the early stages of projects to combat climate change, citing Urban Space Station by Angel Borrego Cubero and Natalie Jeremijenko, which recycles emissions and grows food indoors as an example of “how to go deep into the integrated art approach.”
“We need more collaboration, not just “aesthetics” or questioning artists, but being involved as an equal partner from the beginning,” said Augute.
