[Geoinfo] Fwd: Art-science collaboration for global deserts?

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Asunto: Art-science collaboration for global deserts?
Fecha: 2021-07-15 12:29
Remitente: "Faber, Marie-laure" <ml.faber en unesco.org>
Destinatario: "Adiyaman Lopes, Ozlem" <o.adiyaman en unesco.org>

Dear UNESCO Earth sciences community,

We are writing you to inform you that the International Geoscience and
Geoparks programme (IGGP)  [1] and the Artist Katie Paterson [2] from UK
are looking to work with geoscience partners across the world in the
delivery of a MAJOR NEW PUBLIC ART COMMISSION IN CALIFORNIA, to open in
2022.

We are looking to work with partners who can assist with the SUSTAINABLE
SOURCING AND COLLECTION OF SAND FROM GLOBAL DESERTS, and PROVIDE ADVICE
ON THE LOCAL GEOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND COMMUNITIES IN EACH REGION.

Collaborating with scientists and researchers across the world, Katie
Paterson’s projects consider our place on Earth in the context of
geological time and change. Her artworks make use of sophisticated
technologies and specialist expertise to stage intimate, poetic and
philosophical engagements between people and their natural environment.

Titled “_MIRAGE”__,_ the artwork is a collaboration with the leading
architects Zeller and Moye [3] and will create a large-scale immersive
sculpture formed from over 400 cast glass columns, made of sand
collected from deserts across the earth.

To achieve this, Katie Paterson’s team is looking to WORK WITH
SCIENTIfiC INSTITUTES, ART INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WORLDWIDE TO
COLLECT SAND USING SUSTAINABLE AND ETHICAL PRACTICES.

We attach a list of the deserts we are hoping to collect sand from - we
hope to work with geoscientists in each country, and are particularly
keen to make contact with potential collaborators in CHINA, SENEGAL, The
Horn of Africa (ETHIOPIA, DJIBOUTI, SOMALILAND), IRAQ and IRAN.

Katie Paterson’s team requires approximately 100kg of sand from each
of the listed deserts.

  	* All costs including transportation, permits, time and other expenses
can be covered.
	* Collaborators will be credited for their involvement

If you would like to collaborate with this project, please contact:

Daniel Smernicki: dan en katiepaterson.org; Siobhan Maguire
siobhan en katiepaterson.org and copy your inquiries to Ozlem Adiyaman
Lopes (o.adiyaman en unesco.org) from UNESCO IGGP team.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Best wishes

MARIE-LAURE FABER

Programme Assistant

Section on Earth Sciences and Geo-Hazards Risk Reduction

Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences

Natural Sciences Sector/1.036

United Nations

Educational, Scientific and

Cultural Organization

7, place de Fontenoy

F-75352 Paris 07 SP

Tel.: +33 (0)1 45 68 07 84

www.unesco.org/earth-science [4]

  [5]     [6]    [7]



Links:
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[1] 
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/earth-sciences/international-geoscience-and-geoparks-programme/resources/
[2] http://katiepaterson.org/
[3] http://www.zellermoye.com/
[4] http://www.unesco.org/earth-science
[5] https://www.facebook.com/unescoEARTH/
[6] https://twitter.com/unescoEARTH
[7] https://www.instagram.com/unesco.earth/
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