The Mayor and Council of the Village of Pinecrest
The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
and
The Florida Division of Cultural Affairs

welcome

The Honorable Ken Detzner
Secretary of State, State of Florida

to South Florida

Join him and

Palmer Trinity School
students

in dedicating

Xavier Cortada‘s

LONGITUDINAL INSTALLATION

an interactive sculpture on permanent display at

Pinecrest Gardens
11000 SW 57th Avenue
Pinecrest, FL 33156

December 7, 2017 at 7 pm
Reception to follow at EPOCH exhibition in Hibiscus Gallery

The event is free and open to the public.
For more info call 305-669-6990 or visit
https://floridaisnature.com/event/2017li/

Dedication of the “Longitudinal Installation”

On December 7th, 2017, Cortada ‘s Longitudinal Installation sculpture be on permanent exhibit at Pinecrest Gardens. The participatory art piece captures voices from 24 individual across the globe who have been impacted by Climate Change.

Longitudinal Installation

The Longitudinal Installation at Pinecrest Gardens:

Cortada created the Longitudinal Installation in the South Pole in 2007 and in the North Pole in 2008. During both visits, Cortada placed 24 shoes in a circle, each aligned across 24 longitudes. He stopped in front of each of his longitudinal shoe markers and read a quote aloud that revealed a person’s experience with climate change from that part of the world. His artistic ritual illustrated how everyone in the world has been profoundly impacted by climate change.

The South Pole’s Longitudinal Installation has been replicated as a ceramic sculpture on permanent exhibit at Pinecrest Gardens. This participatory art installation invites visitors to recite the 24 quotes, as Cortada did at both ends of the world.

To perform the ritual, stand behind the show marked with zero degrees and face the red and white pole as you read the first quote. (You can find the quotes online at https://cortada.com/projects/longitudinal.) Then, move clockwise, stopping at each marked shoe to read its respective quote. Upon completion, stand just to the left of the 75 degreeWest shoe (if you live in Florida) and recite a 25^th quote: Your own quote!

How has climate change impacted your environment?

If you perform the ritual, we invite you to document the performance with photos and video, and upload it to https://cortada.com/projects/longitudinal

Xavier Cortada, The Longitudinal Installation (at the South Pole), 2007

Programming at Pinecrest Gardens | Greeting each new season

Aside from his ongoing Florida is Nature project and the Longitudinal Installation, Pinecrest Gardens artist-in-residence Xavier Cortada is creating other permanent participatory art projects and ritualistic installations onsite at Pinecrest Gardens, South Florida’s Cultural Arts Park.  To schedule an environmental art-based field trip for your classroom or co-op, please contact Lacey Bray, educational programs coordinator, at lbray@pinecrest-fl.gov.  Pinecrest Gardens is located at 11000 SW 57th Avenue, Pinecrest, FL.

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