hello participatory installation at cop26
This HELLO art project produces a nexus of commonality among conference participants through a subversion of the indifferent banality generally associated with name tags. Rather than their name, one presents their worries and desires to the public gauntlet, a naked performance in the face of uncomfortable truths. This makes participating individuals explicitly aware of their peers’ thoughts and feelings, relevant in regard to a conference of international consequence.
cortada participates in the pacific islands delegation's side event "amplifying pacific voices"
Cortada was invited to attend a beautiful event hosted by a delegation of Pacific Island nations. While there he spoke briefly about the connection between these islands and Miami, our plight and futures intimately intertwined.
hello participants
Here are a few snapshots of the HELLO project in action:
A delegation of young women from Central and South America participate in HELLO.
Members of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) COP26 team proudly wear their HELLO tags.
Fridays for Future’s Kallan Benson receives tags that she is to share with other youth climate leaders coming to Glasgow.
A French TV reporter covering COP26 understands the impact of what he is covering for the media.
At the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, Duke University Professor Jonathan Phillips and a former student wear tags that read “My fear is apathy” and “My future is uncertain.”
blue zone pavilions
The UN Climate Change Conference COP 26 in Glasgow, United Kingdom is a crucial opportunity to achieve pivotal, transformational change in global climate policy and action. It is a credibility test for global efforts to address climate change and it is where Parties must make considerable progress to reach consensus on issues they have been discussing for several years. COP 26 comes against the background of widespread, rapid and intensifying climate change impacts, which are already impacting every region on Earth. Also, COP 26 comes against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the urgent need to build back better for present future generations to ensure a safe future.
The meeting comprises the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26), the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 16), and the third session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 3). It will be held at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow, United Kingdom, from 31 October to 12 November 2021.
Learn more at https://unfccc.int/cop26/participants-a-z