Video: Plunge - three installations dedicated to flooded London
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It's no secret that sea levels are rising due to the melting of glaciers caused by changes in climate. If everything goes on at the same pace, then in a thousand years many of the largest cities in the world, including London, will be under water. It is these cataclysms that are dedicated to three Plunge installationscreated by By Michael Pinsky.
For some reason, artists do not like the city of London. After all, probably no other city in the world (except New York) has been subjected to so many fictitious destruction. Especially often the British capital "suffers" at the hands of fans of the "post-apocalyptic" genre. Post-apocalyptic postcards of London of the future can be cited as an example. And the other day, the artist Michael Pinski managed to "drown" this city.
"Drown" is, of course, only conceptually. Pinski decided to draw the attention of Londoners to the problem of global warming of the Earth's climate and, accordingly, melting of glaciers. Small island states will be the first to suffer from this process, some of which risk being left without their own territory at all. But over time, London will get it too.
If the temperature on Earth continues to rise at the current rate, then in a thousand years, in 3012, the water level in the oceans will rise so much that London streets will be at a depth of 28 meters.
It is precisely at a height of 28 meters above the ground that the Plunge installations are located. They are luminous LED hoops worn on three columns in three different locations in central London, in the immediate vicinity of Buckingham Palace and St Paul's Cathedral.
So any Londoner and city visitor has a very clear opportunity to present the final results of the modern consumer attitude to nature and resources.
Michael Pinski's Plunge installations will remain in place until March 4, 2012.
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