Cape Farewell

David Buckland created and now directs the international Cape Farewell project. Bringing artists, visionaries, scientists and educators together, Cape Farewell continues to build an international collective awareness and the cultural response to climate disruption. Over 140 artists have created operas, films, artworks, pop music and novels which address the climate challenge and through the process of making art, vision a sustainable and exciting cultural future.

He created the Cape Farewell project to mirror the mathematical modellers interrogation of future time. To address climate means we have act now in order to achieve a result decades into the future, this is counter to accepted practice as humanity to date has only had to addressed problems of the present. For climate scientists, the projected consequences of inaction are unimaginable, our habitat and humanity would suffer greatly if we don’t act. The challenge is to accept the future truth of climatic change and importantly position it as a cultural responsibility, it is our evolved action, our feavoush human activity that is causing the planet to warm. To embrase a cultural shift as the necessary part of the solution requires the creative community to help vision the new and for art practice to inhabit reality on a different plane.

To perform an expedition is an action based enquiry, a research enquiry through the process of doing. It is possible, through art practice aliened to action based research, to know future demands with some sense of exactitude, in the same way as mathematical modelling sets a paradigm to map future realities.

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