Backing off from the Tipping Point?

Today, in the Arts & Leisure section of the NY Times, on page 35, Claire Dederer wrote an article about the new show my work is in: "Looking for Inspiration in the Melting Ice." The show is at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (bmoca.org), and is terrific: 51 artists and a fabulous catalog.

For almost five months, I did little except work on preparing my collaborative project for this show: "Trigger Points/ Tipping Points," which was also shown at the Venice Beinnale. The work was with Dr. Jim White, for "Weather Report," curated by Lucy Lippard for the BMoCA and opened Sept 14.

I took the train there and back, did two "Virtual Concerts" the week I was there aboutt he show and now am reflecting on what was accomplished besides the work, which I'm proud of. Dr. White and I created a project comparing a series of conflict zones in river deltas: Darfur, Bangladesh and New Orleans, to understand the relationship to global warming. We posed various questions to eachother and studied research and mapping to analyze data.

There is one lingering question now, are there actions we might take, now that we are in the rock bottom baseline point that will tip us into disaster with in the next five years, to forestall utter calamity of hundreds of millions more people and species than are already devastated?