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Climate Change : Cultural Change Exhibition at Globe City 2nd June - 1st July 2006 The exhibition brings together a number of video works created by Michael Pinsky over the last five years. Each of the artworks comments on various aspects of global pollution, particularly humankind's constant denial of their personal contribution to this malaise. Focusing on the idea 'what you can't see can't harm you' Pinsky uses multi-screen video installations and other video works which document interventions and performances in the public realm to create humorous yet pertinent artworks. This will be the first time these video works have been shown in the UK. The exhibition will be shown in parallel with a sculptural intervention in The River Tyne in Newcastle. The exhibition will also include: • A display of films by the eminent ecological artists, Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. 'The Mountain in the Greenhouse' is an Art/ Science collaboration between the artist team Helen and Newton Harrison and the head of the Department of Ecology at the University of Vienna, Dr. Professor Georg Grabherr. Basically, the Art of it says what the Scientist cannot and the Science of it is discovered with a methodology and work team unavailable to the Artist. "The Mountain in the Greenhouse" tells a story of three flowers that slowly seek higher ground as the temperature rises. Finally, having no place to go, they disappear. It is one of a number of the Harrisons' Greenhouse Effect works, moving from the prophetic to the pragmatic, done intermittently from 1974 to the present. Their most immediate global warming piece under development is entitled, 'Greenhouse Britain.' The core concept of which poses the proposition and the question, "the waters will rise gracefully. Can we withdraw with equal grace? " • Peter Rogers' virtual gallery on climate change, involving an interactive POD (a public delivery system for digital work) from the Climate Change Explorer project - see below to contribute to virtual gallery. Globe City, 4th Floor, Curtis Mayfield House, Carliol Square, NE1 6UQ +44(0)191 2221666, info@globegallery.org , www.globegallery.org Opening Times: Wed- Sat, 11.30am - 5.00pm, Admission Free, Please ring bell. Globe Hub, 10th June to 1st July 2006 Alongside Michael Pinsky's Turning Point', the gallery will be showing the work of pupils from Marden High School following on from a residency in 2005 with artist Gayle Chong Kwan, and 'Consequences' the film of the play - written, directed and performed by students from Mortimer Comprehensive School exploring the future consequences of climate change to ordinary family life. Globe Hub, 97 Howard Street, North Shield, Tyne & Wear, NE30 1NA +44(0)191 2592614, info@globegallery.org , www.globegallery.org Opening Times: Wed- Sat, 11.30am - 5.00pm Globe Gallery is an independent contemporary art gallery showing the work of emerging and established artists. << Back to Programme |
 Come Hell or High Water, Michael Pinsky.  Newton and Helen Harrison 'Peninsula Europe' (which explains flooding in Europe). Images courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
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