COAL Prize Art and Environment 2015 FINALIST
PARIS, FRANCE
10+10+10=1
From the beginning of MELD’s creation, we always envisioned a project called 10+10+10=1. 10 + 10 + 10 = 1,” sets out to showcase a series of moving images pieces which will then be projected in public venues and against natural landscapes and cityscapes around the world. The diverse practices presented in “10 + 10 + 10 = 1,” will not just passively lament the degradation of our planet, or only provide sound technical solutions. Instead, these ten “projects” will actively articulate the contradictions and responsibilities that we encounter personally, and as a global society. Here, art does not necessarily proclaim a “correct” ethical or green solution but allows the possibility for broadening and analyzing our perceptions and actions. It sets a critical attitude into motion that not only intervenes and infiltrates but re-interprets and decodes humans’ relationship to the natural environment, as well as to each other.
10+10+10=1 is inspired by the idea of creating micro think-tanks, pairing a visual artist and a scholar/scientist to address pertinent issues concerning our changing environment. Teams of two will engage in an extended dialogue and develop this concept over the course of a second phase in the format of an artwork.
To date, we have confirmed the first two teams of artists and scholars who have begun the dialogue portion of the project.
Team 1: Cynthia Rosenzweig + Shaun Gladwell (Development Phase)
“A Climate Change Opera Proposal”
Shortlisted for The Space | UK and nominated + finalist for the COAL PRIZE/COPArt21
Team 2: Janaina Tschape | Wade Davis (In progress)
In 2015, Team 1 comprised of Cynthia Roenzweig & Shaun Gladwell in collaboration with MELD, submitted our Climate Change Hip-Hop Opera Proposal which was shortlisted and nominated by the selection committee to be part of the COAL PRIZE/COPArt21 2015 ten finalists.
Temple of Holy Shit – Collective Disaster (Belgium) / Nowhere – Alex Hartley (England) / Mergitur sed Regurgitat – Mare Liberum (USA) / Drosera – Julie Navarro (France) / Fungi Mutarium – LIVIN studio (Austria) / CO-OP – Monte Laster (France-USA) / Soleil Noir – Stéfane Perraud and Aram Kebabjian (France) / True Market Cost – FICTILIS ¬ Andrea Steves and Timothy Furstnau (Canada) / Craft in the Anthropocene – Yesenia Thibault-Picazo (France)
