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Title Art From The Arctic / Director: Hinton, David
Published Australia : ABC2, 2010
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Summary *Coarse Language*A group of 20 artists, scientists and educators travel to the remote and beautiful Arctic island of Spitzbergen to exchange ideas and plot ways of communicating to the wider world, concerns about the environment and climate change.The diverse gathering on this Cape Farewell expedition include highly respected names in the fields of writing, video, sculpture, choreography, photography and music and their work there is a stunning statement on the anxieties about global warming.Spitzbergen, an island situated halfway between Europe and the North Pole, is the closest thing Europeans have to a last remaining piece of wilderness. Artist David Buckland took them there on the Norwegian sailing schooner Noorderlicht and they endured temperatures as low as minus 35C.Their art speaks of the environment and the threat human behaviour poses to its stability.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Produced by David Buckland; directed by David Hinton; narrated by Bill Paterson
Event Broadcast 2010-06-06 at 20:30:00
Notes Classification: M
Subject Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects.
Global warming.
Nature photography.
Stone carving.
Voyages and travels.
Arctic Regions.
Svalbard -- Spitsbergen Island.
Form Streaming video
Author Ackroyd, Heather, contributor
Backland, David, contributor
Clegg, Peter, contributor
Deblonde, Gautier, contributor
Eastley, Max, contributor
Gormley, Antony, contributor
Hartley, Alex, contributor
Harvey, Dan, contributor
Hinton, David, director
McEwan, Ian, contributor
Noach, Michele, contributor
Whiteread, Rachel, contributor