Eco Art - Tipping Point

'TIPPING POINT?" Art Exhibition 16-17 July 2010
Solo Exhibition "Tipping Point?" by Christine Dawson Commissioned by
The National Justice and Peace Network : Conference entitled: OUR DAILY BREAD" - FOOD SECURITY, PEOPLE AND PLANET held at
The Hayes Conference Centre, Derbyshire.

Keynote speakers:

The Great Debate chaired by:
John Vidal, Guardian's Environment Editor
Vandana Shiva
Indian Ecologist and Environmental Activist
Shay Cullen
Preda Foundation Philippines
Alastair McIntosh
Scottish writer and campaigner for justice and environmental
sustainability.
Two Art Workshops will be run by Artist Christine Dawson.

Here 20 Tunnel Books made of bread will be produced.  Each
book will represent a Multi-national Food Industry.  Completed books
will create an installation entitled: "Our Daily Bread?"  which will be
an integral part of the Exhibition "Tipping Point?"





 "TIPPING POINT?" is influenced by a book by
Dr. Ellen F. Davis,
Scripture, Culture and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible by Dr Ellen F. Davis (Cambridge University Press, 2009).


"Christine, the way in which
 you have adapted my work
 to your context – in terms of 
the bird population, and the 
threat of flood – is striking to me. 
Thank you so much, and Godspeed. Ellen


"TIMELINE"
This timeline starts with the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah.  In the middle is a clock ticking out second by second real time and this is followed by “prophecies” from the Met. Office for the years 2025, 2080 and 2100.  It ends I feel inevitably with a question mark – who knows what next? 
Copyright Christine Dawson 







Read my article in the Lancs. Artists Network E-Mag about the
work I have created for "Tipping Point?" at this link.

MY ARTICLE BEGINS ON PAGE 8.
Read Article for a fuller explanation of these three works



'SUSTAINABLE FUTURE?'  Newspaper Installation questioning is this feasible?  Audience allowed to interact with installations by writing comments on labels attached to bricks.  They are asked the question "How will YOU save the planet?


"CUCKOO"
Bird-box with Animation

This installation is about the demise of our bird-life and consists of an animation framed within a bird box -(Concept/drawings by Christine Dawson/Animator Adam York Gregory).
Copyright Christine Dawson.

"GATES OF HELL"
Still from Video.

This work alludes to the idea of Sluice Gates and Flooding.  I filmed this charming country gate during a walk and was intrigued by its eerie grinding sound when opened.  I have enhanced this sound and rendered the gate more sinister by slowing down the film and desaturating it.  
This notion of sluice gates and flooding ties in well with contemporary concerns about increased flooding due to the changing global climate. A recent study (June 2009) conducted by the Land Use Consultants for the Land Use Policy Group (LUPG) of GB countryside agencies has highlighted that increased flooding from higher and more intense rainfall and from the incursions of high tides is likely to be the most immediate of all the impacts that will be felt from changing global climate. They note that across the U.K. over the next 60 years, the numbers of people at risk from flooding could rise from 1.5 to 3.5 million. The annual cost of flood damage could increase nine- fold. In particular agricultural land and the countryside will be heavily affected. Unless we take heed we are grinding toward a darker and more problematic future.
This Grinding Gate certainly leaves the viewer with the impression - all is not well.

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