Adopted from the work ‘The Great Silence’ Allora & Calzadilla’s video work is a direct message to the United Nations. Examining extinction from its very core, the work urges policymakers to let more sensitivity and planetary care into the decision-making
Today, coinciding with the High-level General Debate at the United Nations General Assembly and World Peace Day, Art for Hope will begin sharing all the remarkable and thought-provoking messages that is directed straight to world leaders and decision makers. With new videos every week from today until COP27, #ArtforHope will explore the multitude of voices, hopes, and actions of the sector.
Visualisation of Vertical Migration, SUPERFLEX, 2021. Vertical Migrationis commissioned by ART 2030 and TBA21–Academy, andsupported by AvatarAlliance Foundation, Dalio Philanthropies, OceanX, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI),New Carlsberg Foundation, The Obel Family Foundation, Beckett Fonden, and Danish ArtsFoundation. Vertical Migrationwas developed in close collaboration with Kollision. Vertical Migrationispart of ‘Interspecies Assembly’ by SUPERFLEX for ART 2030.Background image by UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe. Visualisations by SUPERFLEX.
The United Nations hosts the first ‘Interspecies Assembly’ at the 76th UN General Assembly, inviting humans and non-humans to gather and work together. The project interspecies Assembly by artist group SUPERFLEX for Art 2030 opens during the United Nations General Assembly, seeking to draw attention to biodiversity and the critical role of the ocean-particularly to the region now as the twilight zone-to the global climate.
Visualization of Breathe with Me in UN Headquarters and Central Park, New York City. Visualization by Studio Jeppe Hein. Courtesy: Jeppe Hein and ART 2030
This September, ART 2030 is delighted to launch Breathe with Me, a global art project by Jeppe Hein and ART 2030, to bring the entire world together with one simple, universal action: breathing. The exhibition will take place at two locations in NYC this September ~ the United Nations Headquarters and Central Park.