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Best responses on You Tube!

May 15, 2009 by Gemma Lloyd
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Check out my rundown of some of the best You Tube footage from artists responding to the environment, where amongst others you can see footage of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. Some of you may be aware of the recent headlines related to this significant work when in 2008 the Canadian oil and gas company Pearl Montana Exploration and Production put forward an application to begin exploratory drilling in the Great Salt Lake with potentially devastating consequences to the work.  Pressures from the public, Nancy Holt and the Dia Art Foundation (who acquired the work in 1999 and also maintain Walter de Maria’s The Lightening Field and Joseph Beuys’ 7000 Oak Trees which are also included in the feature) have so far paid off in preventing this drilling though Pearl anticipate resubmitting a future application. You can find more information about this case here - http://www.spiraljetty.org/

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  • About Respond 09

    Respond! takes place in June 2009 to highlight and celebrate a month of nationwide events, exhibitions, talks and projects that demonstrate the arts’ engagement with environmental issues.

    On the main Respond! website you can find information about what's happening across the UK alongside features, blogs and much more.

    There are already an incredible amount of projects, organisations and initiatives in the arts that have responded to the ever-increasing threats to the environment and continue to organise vital and stimulating discourse around the subject. The RSA Arts & Ecology website is committed to drawing attention to this work and extending the debate further among an active and engaged audience.

    In June this year we want to take a snapshot of the activity that is taking place in the UK to build on the agenda of World Environment Day which takes place on 5 June.

    The project is being delivered in association with Bash Creations - an events production company whose aim is to reduce the ecological footprint of the British entertainment industry by introducing innovative and creative ways to implement sustainable practice.

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