Moving Towards a Balanced Earth: Kick the carbon habit

The Te Papa Museum

5 Jun – 16 Nov 2008

 

In honour of the annual United Nations World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June, the global, mobile Natural World Museum and Te Papa presented Moving Towards a Balanced Earth: Kick the carbon habit in partnership with the United Nations Environmental Programme, the Ministry for the Environment, and the New Zealand Government.

Artists were asked to find new ways to articulate the Earth in balance, and explore new visions and choices for a sustainable world. The exhibition featured an evocative mix of painting, sculpture, photography, multimedia, and installation.

Art works included:

a startling video projection of environmental devastation by Susan Norrie of Australia

dream-like desert imagery by Bill Viola of the United States

an assemblage by Mounir Fatmi of Morocco

lithographs by Bill Culbert and Ralph Hotere

an ‘existential slapstick’ video trilogy by Lars Siltberg of Sweden

digital prints by Russian artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov.

 

Wellington, June 2008