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Xavier Cortada, “Testamento,” archival ink on aluminum, 2015
CLEO 2019: DO NOT OPEN
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Celebrating the 2019 Seasons: Longitudinal Installation Spring Equinox Performance
Welcoming the 2019 Seasons…
Xavier Cortada. “Longitudinal Installation,” South Pole (2007) and North Pole (2008).
Please join us for the performance of the Longitudinal Installation as we greet each new season
Spring Equinox
LONGITUDINAL INSTALLATION
Xavier Cortada
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 10:30am
at
Pinecrest Gardens
11000 SW 57th Avenue
Pinecrest, FL 33156
The participatory art piece captures voices from 24 individual across the globe who have been impacted by Climate Change.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more info call 305-669-6990 or visit
Learn more at www.longitudinalinstallation.org
Longitudinal Installation
The Longitudinal Installation at In the Garden 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 www.longitudinalinstallation.org.) Then, move clockwise, stopping at each marked shoe to read its respective quote. Upon completion, stand just to the left of the 75 degree West shoe (if you live in Florida) and recite a 25th 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 www.longitudinalinstallation.org
Xavier Cortada, The Longitudinal Installation (at the South Pole), 2007
Greeting each new season
Please join us In the Garden at Pinecrest Gardens for the performance of the Longitudinal Installation as we greet each new season:
- 2019 Spring Equinox performance: Wednesday March 20, 2019 at 10:30 am
- 2019 Summer Solstice performance: Friday June 21, 2019 at 10:30 am
- 2019 Fall Equinox performance: Monday, September 23, 2019 at 10:30 am
- 2019 Winter Solstice performance: Sunday Dec 22, 2019 at 10:30 am
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.
“Underwater HOA” Inaugural Meeting at Hibiscus Gallery
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019
7 p.m
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Pinecrest Gardens
11000 S. Red Road
Pinecrest, FL 33156
“Underwater HOA“
(Underwater HOA official meeting notice: Our inaugural meeting is scheduled for January 9, 2019 at 7 pm at Xavier Cortada’s studio in Pinecrest Gardens. We will elect officers and ratify the by-laws. One vote per household. Only individuals bringing picture IDs and proof of elevation will be allowed to vote.)
My socially-engaged environmental art practice aims to help address the problem at hand: As part of the effort, I will charter a homeowner’s association where members are organized by property elevation–the most important metric any coastal community need consider. By asking participants to join Underwater HOA, www.underwaterHOA.com, I engage my neighbors as problem-solvers who will learn together and work together now to plan and better prepare (themselves and their heirs) for the chaos to come.
Xavier Cortada
Underwater HOA is a participatory art project by Xavier Cortada launched during the opening of the artist’s
“Antarctic Ice Paintings: Global Coastlines & Underwater HOA“
solo exhibition premiering works he created in Antarctica in 2006-2007
Antarctic Ice Paintings:
Main
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2018 Event
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Global Coastlines Gallery
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Press
Ice Painting Series:
Sea Ice
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WAIS
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Global Coastlines
Xavier Cortada, “Antarctic Ice Paintings | Global Coastlines: A-30,” melted Antarctic ice, sediment and mixed media on paper, 9″ x 12″, 2007.
Xavier Cortada, recipient of a 2006-2007 National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers fellowship, traveled to Antarctica to implement a series of projects and installations. While there, the Miami artist created “Antarctic Ice Paintings” using glacier ice, sea ice, and sediment samples provided to him by scientists working in Antarctica. “Global Coastlines,” a series of comprised of all of the artist’s Antarctic works on paper which had not yet been titled (and had never been shown) will be premiered and named at Pinecrest Gardens. One is titled “Antarctica,” another will be titled “Pinecrest.” The remaining sixty works will be titled for another 60 global communities threatened by sea level rise. The exhibition is part of a broader participatory art project aimed at engaging residents in a conversation about the future of their properties.
Read more about the exhibition at: https://deliciousline.org/review/348
Xavier Cortada: Antarctic Ice Paintings
Hibiscus Gallery
Reviewed by Elisa Turner
“Underwater HOA” Inaugural Meeting at Hibiscus Gallery
Xavier Cortada
Underwater HOA:
Main
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About
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Markers
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Participate
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Join our HOA
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Press
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Exhibition
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Meeting
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Social Media
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Join us!
“Underwater HOA” Inaugural Meeting
on
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
7 p.m
at
Hibiscus Gallery
Pinecrest Gardens
11000 S. Red Road
Pinecrest, FL 33156
“Underwater HOA“
(Underwater HOA official meeting notice: Our inaugural meeting is scheduled for January 9, 2019 at 7 pm at Xavier Cortada’s studio in Pinecrest Gardens. We will elect officers and ratify the by-laws. One vote per household. Only individuals bringing picture IDs and proof of elevation will be allowed to vote.)
My socially-engaged environmental art practice aims to help address the problem at hand: As part of the effort, I will charter a homeowner’s association where members are organized by property elevation–the most important metric any coastal community need consider. By asking participants to join Underwater HOA, www.underwaterHOA.com, I engage my neighbors as problem-solvers who will learn together and work together now to plan and better prepare (themselves and their heirs) for the chaos to come.
Xavier Cortada
Underwater HOA is a participatory art project by Xavier Cortada launched during the opening of the artist’s
“Antarctic Ice Paintings: Global Coastlines & Underwater HOA“
solo exhibition premiering works he created in Antarctica in 2006-2007
Antarctic Ice Paintings:
Main
|
About
|
2018 Event
|
Global Coastlines Gallery
|
Press
Ice Painting Series:
Sea Ice
|
WAIS
|
Global Coastlines
Xavier Cortada, “Antarctic Ice Paintings | Global Coastlines: A-30,” melted Antarctic ice, sediment and mixed media on paper, 9″ x 12″, 2007.
Xavier Cortada, recipient of a 2006-2007 National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers fellowship, traveled to Antarctica to implement a series of projects and installations. While there, the Miami artist created “Antarctic Ice Paintings” using glacier ice, sea ice, and sediment samples provided to him by scientists working in Antarctica. “Global Coastlines,” a series of comprised of all of the artist’s Antarctic works on paper which had not yet been titled (and had never been shown) will be premiered and named at Pinecrest Gardens. One is titled “Antarctica,” another will be titled “Pinecrest.” The remaining sixty works will be titled for another 60 global communities threatened by sea level rise. The exhibition is part of a broader participatory art project aimed at engaging residents in a conversation about the future of their properties.
Read more about the exhibition at: https://deliciousline.org/review/348
Xavier Cortada: Antarctic Ice Paintings
Hibiscus Gallery
Reviewed by Elisa Turner
Celebrating the 2018 Seasons: Longitudinal Installation Winter Solstice performance
Welcoming the 2018 Seasons… Winter Solstice
Xavier Cortada. “Longitudinal Installation,” South Pole (2007) and North Pole (2008).
Please join us for the performance of the Longitudinal Installation as we greet each new season
Winter Solstice
LONGITUDINAL INSTALLATION
Xavier Cortada
Friday, December 21, 2018 at 10:30am
at
Pinecrest Gardens
11000 SW 57th Avenue
Pinecrest, FL 33156
The participatory art piece captures voices from 24 individual across the globe who have been impacted by Climate Change.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more info call 305-669-6990 or visit
Learn more at www.longitudinalinstallation.org
Longitudinal Installation
The Longitudinal Installation at In the Garden 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 www.longitudinalinstallation.org.) Then, move clockwise, stopping at each marked shoe to read its respective quote. Upon completion, stand just to the left of the 75 degree West shoe (if you live in Florida) and recite a 25th 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 www.longitudinalinstallation.org
Xavier Cortada, The Longitudinal Installation (at the South Pole), 2007
Greeting each new season in 2019
Please join us In the Garden at Pinecrest Gardens for the performance of the Longitudinal Installation as we greet each new season:
- 2019 Spring Equinox performance: Wednesday March 20, 2019 at 10:30 am
- 2019 Summer Solstice performance: Friday June 21, 2019 at 10:30 am
- 2019 Fall Equinox performance: Monday, September 23, 2019 at 10:30 am
- 2019 Winter Solstice performance: Sunday Dec 22, 2019 at 10:30 am
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.
“Water Paintings” science art works created at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest on exhibit at MNMF
New Media Festival, Editions XIII
presents
“Water Paintings”
an exhibition of works created at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest by
Xavier Cortada
at
Concrete Space
3400 NW 78th Avenue
Doral, FL 33122
(305) 219-0811
opening on
Saturday, November 10, 2018
4pm
Water Paintings will be presented as part of the WaterViz installation by Dr. Lindsey Rustad and the Hubbard Brook team at the 13th edition of the Miami New Media Festival: www.waterviz.org
Xavier Cortada’s “Water Paintings” exhibition at Pinecrest Gardens in 2018.
Xavier Cortada works with Hydrologist Mark Green to create “Water Paintings” at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest.
WATER PAINTINGS
“Water Paintings allowed me to give water at Hubbard Brook’s nine watersheds a voice. In the work, I made water the protagonist. In June 2016, I placed nine pencil drawings and nine pieces of watercolor paper inside nylon mesh. I then tied the mesh bags to a rope at each of the nine weirs at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and left them there for a period of 16 weeks in 2016. The water flowing through the mesh stained the paper inside. Water samples and water data were collected by scientists over the same 16-week period from the same nine weirs. The final work included water samples, data, even the residue in filters. I wanted audiences to see the water, what the water did, and what it painted as it flowed and transported materials down the stream.”
Xavier Cortada
Xavier Cortada, “Water Paintings: Hubbard Brook,” paper and residue captured from water flowing from each of the 9 weirs at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest LTER in New Hampshire, 2016
Hubbard Brook scientists pioneered the small watershed approach, which transformed the study of forests by using whole watersheds as living laboratories. This ground-breaking approach fostered many new discoveries beneficial to both science and society.
Small first-order watersheds can show us how ecosystems respond to environmental change. Chemical concentrations combined with stream flow provides data on stream-water element flux for each watershed.
Water samples and data collected by scientists over a 16-week period from all nine watersheds hang on the walls CLIMA.
Nine sets of “Water Paintings” hang from the ceiling. Cortada created each using the same water scientists study. He placed watercolor paper in mesh and tied it to a rope in each of the nine weirs. The works depict 4 months of streamflow.
About the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and LTER
The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF) is a 3,160 hectare reserve located in the White Mountain National Forest operated by the USDA Forest Service, near Woodstock, New Hampshire. The on-site research program is dedicated to the long-term study of forest and associated aquatic ecosystems. It has produced some of the most extensive and longest continuous data bases on the hydrology, biology, geology and chemistry of a forest and its associated aquatic ecosystems.
Hubbard Brook scientists pioneered the small watershed approach, which transformed the study of forests by using whole watersheds as living laboratories. This ground-breaking approach fostered many new discoveries beneficial to both science and society.
Hubbard Brook scientists discovered acid rain in North America by taking meticulous, long-term measurements of rain and snow. Scientists continue to document acid rain’s damaging effects and track recovery linked to pollution reduction efforts.
Learn more at http://www.hubbardbrook.org
Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
Overview: The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF) is a 3,160 hectare reserve located in the White Mountain National Forest operated by the USDA Forest Service, near Woodstock, New Hampshire. The on-site research program is dedicated to the long-term study of forest and associated aquatic ecosystems.
History: The HBEF was established by the USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station in 1955 as a major center for hydrologic research in New England. In the early 1960’s, Dr. F. Herbert Bormann and others proposed the use of small watersheds to study element cycling. In 1963, the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study (HBES) was initiated by Bormann and Drs. Gene E. Likens and Noye M. Johnson, then on the faculty of Dartmouth College, and Dr. Robert S. Pierce of the USDA Forest Service. They proposed to use the small watershed approach at Hubbard Brook to study linkages between hydrologic and nutrient flux and cycling in response to natural and human disturbances, such as air pollution, forest cutting, land-use changes, increases in insect populations and climatic factors.
Research Topics: Vegetation structure and production; dynamics of detritus in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; atmosphere-terrestrial-aquatic ecosystem linkages; heterotroph population dynamics; effects of human activities on ecosystems.
Special thanks to the entire Hubbard Brook team, the USDA Forest Service, Dr. Lindsey Rustad, Hydrologist Mark Green, Sr. Researcher Tammy Wooster, Amey Bailey, and Mary Martin.
“Antarctic Ice Paintings: Global Coastlines & Underwater HOA” at Hibiscus Gallery
Antarctic Ice Paintings:
Main
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About
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2018 Event
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Global Coastlines Gallery
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Press
Ice Painting Series:
Sea Ice
|
WAIS
|
Global Coastlines
Xavier Cortada, “Antarctic Ice Paintings | Global Coastlines: A-1: Antarctica,” melted Antarctic ice, sediment and mixed media on paper, 9″ x 12″, 2007.
“Antarctic Ice Paintings: Global Coastlines and Underwater HOA“
a solo exhibition premiering works created in Antarctica in 2007
by
Xavier Cortada
at
Hibiscus Gallery
Pinecrest Gardens
11000 S. Red Road
Pinecrest, FL 33156
Exhibit runs from November 8, 2018 through January 13, 2018
Artist Meet and Greet
Join us: “Antarctic Ice Paintings: Global Coastlines and Underwater HOA” a solo exhibition by Xavier Cortada, premiering works created in Antartica in 2007.
- Opening:
Thursday, November 8, 2018 (7 – 10 pm) - Celebrate Art Miami Week:
Thursday, November 29, 2018 (6:30 – 10 pm) - Pinecrest Gardens Farmers Market: Distribution of Underwater Markers:
Sunday, December 2, 2018 (10am – 5 pm) - Underwater HOA Meeting:
Wednesday, January 9, 2019, (7 – 10 pm).
Presented by the Village of Pinecrest and the League of Conservation Voters with Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER, University of Miami Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, FIU Sea Level Solutions Center, Eyes on the Rise and the Miami New Media Festival.
About the Exhibition
Xavier Cortada, recipient of a 2006-2007 National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers fellowship, traveled to Antarctica to implement a series of projects and installations. While there, the Miami artist created “Antarctic Ice Paintings” using glacier ice, sea ice, and sediment samples provided to him by McMurdo LTER scientists working in Antarctica.
“Global Coastlines,” a series comprised of all of the artist’s Antarctic works on paper which had not yet been titled (and had never been shown) will be premiered and named at Pinecrest Gardens. One is titled “Antarctica,” another “Pinecrest, Florida.” The remaining sixty works will be titled for another 60 global communities threatened by Antarctica’s melting glaciers and sea level rise. The exhibition is part of a broader participatory art project aimed at engaging residents in a conversation about the future of their properties.
The exhibition will also serve to launch the Underwater HOA, participatory public art project the artist is implementing to engage residents from across Miami-Dade County in addressing sea level rise. Learn more at www.underwaterHOA.com or scroll down
Read more about the exhibition at: https://deliciousline.org/review/348
Xavier Cortada: Antarctic Ice Paintings
Hibiscus Gallery
Reviewed by Elisa Turner
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Xavier Cortada, “Underwater HOA,” 2018 (www.underwaterHOA.com)
About #UnderwaterHOA
I travelled to Antarctica in 2006 as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Antarctic Artist and Writers Program fellow. There, I created a series of works on paper by melting ice samples scientists gave me from their research on how human impacts on global climate are melting the Antarctic glaciers.
“Underwater HOA“ depicts South Florida’s vulnerability to those melting glaciers: the Village of Pinecrest will encourage its residents to install an “Underwater HOA” marker on their front lawn during the first week of December 2018. The marker will display how many feet of melting glacial water must rise before their property is underwater. I numbered each yard sign from 0 to 17 feet, the land elevation range for the 6,000 houses in the Village. The signs’ backdrop show the watercolor paintings I made in Antarctica by melting ice from the very glaciers that threaten to melt and drown Miami.
By mapping the crisis to come, I make the invisible visible. Block by block, house by house, neighbor by neighbor, I want to make the future impact of sea level rise something no longer possible to ignore.
My socially-engaged environmental art practice aims to help address the problem at hand: As part of the effort, I will charter a homeowner’s association where members are organized by property elevation–the most important metric any coastal community need consider. By asking participants to join Underwater HOA, I engage my neighbors as problem-solvers who will learn together and work together now to plan and better prepare (themselves and their heirs) for the chaos to come.
– Xavier Cortada
Underwater HOA is a participatory public art project Xavier Cortada is implementing in tandem with his “Antarctic Ice Paintings: Global Coastlines and Underwater HOA” exhibition in Pinecrest Gardens Hibiscus Gallery from November 8, 2018 through January 13, 2018.
“Underwater HOA” at Hibiscus Gallery
Xavier Cortada
Underwater HOA:
Main
|
About
|
Markers
|
Participate
|
Join our HOA
|
Press
|
Exhibition
|
Meeting
|
Social Media
|
Resources
“Underwater HOA”
a participatory art project by Xavier Cortada will be launched during the opening of the artist’s
“Antarctic Ice Paintings: Global Coastlines & Underwater HOA“
solo exhibition premiering works he created in Antarctica in 2006-2007 at
Hibiscus Gallery
Pinecrest Gardens
11000 S. Red Road
Pinecrest, FL 33156
Exhibit runs from November 8, 2018 through January 13, 2018
“Antarctic Ice Paintings: Global Coastlines and Underwater HOA” a solo exhibition by Xavier Cortada, premiering works created in Antartica in 2007.
- Artist meet and greet, Thursday, November 8, 2018 (7-10pm)
- Artist meet and greet with Consular Corps for naming of “Antarctic Ice Paintings: Global Coastlines” series, Thursday, November 29, 2018 6:30 -10:00 p.m.
- Pinecrest Day: Distribution of Underwater Markers and Artist Meet and Greet, Sunday, Dec 2, 10 am – 5:00 p.m.
- Underwater HOA Meeting, Thursday, January 9, 2019, 7- 10:00 p.m.
Antarctic Ice Paintings:
Main
|
About
|
2018 Event
|
Global Coastlines Gallery
|
Press
Ice Painting Series:
Sea Ice
|
WAIS
|
Global Coastlines
Xavier Cortada, “Antarctic Ice Paintings | Global Coastlines: A-30,” melted Antarctic ice, sediment and mixed media on paper, 9″ x 12″, 2007.
Xavier Cortada, recipient of a 2006-2007 National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers fellowship, traveled to Antarctica to implement a series of projects and installations. While there, the Miami artist created “Antarctic Ice Paintings” using glacier ice, sea ice, and sediment samples provided to him by scientists working in Antarctica. “Global Coastlines,” a series of comprised of all of the artist’s Antarctic works on paper which had not yet been titled (and had never been shown) will be premiered and named at Pinecrest Gardens. One is titled “Antarctica,” another will be titled “Pinecrest.” The remaining sixty works will be titled for another 60 global communities threatened by sea level rise. The exhibition is part of a broader participatory art project aimed at engaging residents in a conversation about the future of their properties.
LTER All Scientists’ Meeting | Next Generation Synthesis: Successes and Strategies
LTER All Scientists’ Meeting | Next Generation Synthesis: Successes and Strategies
Workshop: Integration of the Environmental Sciences, Arts, and Humanities Across the LTER Network
Xavier Cortada, Diatom, archival ink on aluminum, 36in x 18in, 2014 (edition 1 of 5).
The integration of environmental science, arts, and humanities (eSAH) is flourishing across the LTER network, where it is being applied to enhance outreach/education activities as well as fundamental inquiry with the aspirational goal of helping society overcome the social-ecological grand challenges of today.
During this workshop organized by Bonanza Creek LTER’s Dr. Mary Beth Leigh ( University of Alaska Fairbanks), scientists will:
a) share examples of varying eSAH activities from across the LTER network through brief presentations from artists, scientists, and organizers,
b) report on research assessing the impacts of eSAH activities on audiences and their value to LTER,
c) analyze the range and extent of interdisciplinary integration currently being achieved through different programmatic models, and
d) develop an action plan for organizing, communicating, and expanding the growing network of LTER eSAH programs.
Xavier Cortada will serve as special guest artist/speaker to present on his work as artist in residence at the following LTER sites:
- Florida Coastal Everglades LTER (Florida)
- H J Andrews LTER (Oregon)
- Hubbard Brook LTER (New Hampshire)
Welcoming the Seasons: Longitudinal Installation Fall Equinox performance
Welcoming the 2018 Seasons… Fall Equinox
Xavier Cortada. “Longitudinal Installation,” South Pole (2007) and North Pole (2008).
Please join us for the performance of the Longitudinal Installation as we greet each new season
Fall Equinox
LONGITUDINAL INSTALLATION
Xavier Cortada
Sunday, September 23, 2018 at 10:30am
at
Pinecrest Gardens
11000 SW 57th Avenue
Pinecrest, FL 33156
The participatory art piece captures voices from 24 individual across the globe who have been impacted by Climate Change.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more info call 305-669-6990 or visit
Learn more at www.longitudinalinstallation.org
Longitudinal Installation
The Longitudinal Installation at In the Garden 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.
In the Garden:
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 www.longitudinalinstallation.org.) Then, move clockwise, stopping at each marked shoe to read its respective quote. Upon completion, stand just to the right of the 75 degree West shoe (if you live in Florida) and recite a 25th quote: Your own quote!
25th 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 www.longitudinalinstallation.org
Greeting each new season
Please join us In the Garden at Pinecrest Gardens for the performance of the Longitudinal Installation as we greet each new season:
-
Xavier Cortada, The Longitudinal Installation (at the South Pole), 2007
2017 Winter Solstice performance: Thursday Dec 21, 2017 at 10:30 am
- 2018 Spring Equinox performance: Tuesday March 20, 2018 at 10:30 am
- 2018 Summer Solstice performance: Thursday June 21, 2018 at 10:30 am
- 2018 Fall Equinox performance: Sunday, September 23, 2018 at 10:30 am
- 2018 Winter Solstice performance: Friday Dec 21, 2018 at 10:30 am
- 2019 Spring Equinox performance: Wednesday March 20, 2019 at 10:30 am
- 2019 Summer Solstice performance: Friday June 21, 2019 at 10:30 am
- 2019 Fall Equinox performance: Monday, September 23, 2019 at 10:30 am
- 2019 Winter Solstice performance: Sunday Dec 22, 2019 at 10:30 am
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.