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Peninsula joins Lovely Weather project 04.02.10
INISHOWEN is going out
of this world as part of a unique partnership
between Donegal County Council and international
scientists to explore the issue of climate change.
The Lovely Weather project, part of which is the
novel twinning of Letterkenny with the planet Mars,
will include artist residencies in the county's five
electoral areas including Inishowen. |
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Canadian artist Seema
Goel will be based in the peninsula and the local
project will be called Carbon Capture Sweaters.
Carbon Capture Sweaters is a process-based artwork
linking local phenomenon to global climate change.
The project will consider the hijacking of the term
“climate” and will undertake a statistical
correlation analysis of |
meteorological data
from
Malin Head with Ireland's gross domestic product
(GDP) and green house gas emissions.
Seema Goel is a Canadian artist and a graduate of
the Rhode Island School of Design. She is currently
completing an MA.Sc. at the University of Regina.
One of the project co-coordinators, John Cunningham
explained: “If we truly want to understand climate
change, we have to realise how it works in local
environments like Donegal.
"Art could help us to question our perceptions and
relationships to weather, climate and help us to
experience and reveal our inner participation with
weather and climate."
He said the ‘Lovely Weather’ projects would access
ongoing scientific studies and put them alongside
generations of local knowledge in a bid to
understand the impact of climate change on Donegal.
The five residencies will be funded by Donegal
County Council’s Public Art Programme which will
utilise monies from the five electoral areas (under
the % for Housing Scheme).
Workshops and seminars will be held with the artists
and interested parties, throughout the run of the
residencies. For further information please contact
Declan Sheehan, assistant public art officer on
9129186 or email
declan.sheehan@donegalcoco.ie . |
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