CLIMARTE Explained

The Climate Emergency reflects a deep cultural crisis.

CLIMARTE harnesses the creative power of the arts to inform, engage and inspire effective climate action.

CLIMARTE is an initiator, educator and catalyst for artists to participate in groundbreaking, socially engaged projects intersecting climate science and culture.

Since the 1960s the fossil fuel industry has known its products are deadly and must stay in the ground. All life depends on it.

Since 2010 CLIMARTE has brought together a broad alliance from across the arts, humanities and sciences to advocate for immediate, effective and creative policy action to restore a climate capable of sustaining all life.

Featured artworks
Alexander Boynes, Mandy Martin, Tristen Parr - 'Rewriting the Score'
Julia Ciccarone - 'Connected'
Climate Guardians - 'REVOLT Procession'
Olga Dziemidowicz - Live Sketches from the Climate Guardians 'REVOLT Procession'
Sharon Field - 'The Scrolls: 3,000 days...and counting'
Deanne Gilson - 'Delama Murnong Murrup Bagurrk (honouring and embracing women’s business through the murnong spirit)'
Kate Gorringe-Smith - 'Eastern Curlew, Westernport Icon: I am my habitat'
Karena Goldfinch - 'Unique state botanical prints'
Jacqui Henshaw, Obi Herron and Sunday Smith - 'Hanging by a thread'
Judy Holding - Goldfields II
Ian Hutton, Lord Howe Island footage for 'Pink & Blue' Art Show
Linda Knight - 'Mapping Extinctions'
Eugenia Lim - 'The Coal Face (ScoMo)'
Lucille Martin - 'Conference'
Jenny McCracken - 1) 'The Treachery of Collections: Regent Honey Eater – critically endangered', 2) 'Swift Cycle'
Sarah Metzner - 'Vessels of the Diaspora'
Kent Morris - 'Barkindji Blue Sky – Ancestral Connections #1'
Bridget Nicholson - 'Hommage'
Jamie Perera - 'Anthropocene in C Major'
Bronwyn Razem - 'Tower Hill'
Louise Rippert - 'Reflected'
Tai Snaith - 'Masked Galah'
The Artists of 'The Wall of Wings'
Dominic White - 'Hoodie Empathy Suit'

Camera
Richard Hart
Julian Meehan
Tharshiv Suresh

Sound
BirdLife Australia, 'Songs of Disappearance'
Nature Recordings by David Stewart Nature Sounds, arrangement by Simone Slattery

J.S. Bach: 'Cello Suite no. 1' performed by Yo-Yo Ma, with whom we collaborated in 2018. This piece was chosen in solidarity with John Mark Rozendaal who faces seven years in prison for ‘criminal contempt’ for playing it in front of Citibank’s global HQ in NYC.

Climate Guardians playing Museum Victoria’s ‘Federation Bells’, arrangement by Jahan Xanlü, background music by Blue Sky Audio

Creative Producers
Deborah Hart
Richard Hart

Attributions
Bob Brown Foundation
Envato Elements
Shutterstock

CLIMARTE’s work has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, the City of Yarra and Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation

CLIMARTE acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people as the Traditional Owners and true sovereigns of Narrm the land where this film was made, also known as Melbourne, Australia.

We also acknowledge the courage and leadership of other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and Indigenous people from all around the world, in caring for Country.

We pay our respects to Elders from all nations, and to their Elders past, present and future.

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