Naujienos
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INSTALLATION “THE ISLAND”: TRASH GATHERED AT THE SEASIDE TURNED INTO AN ART PROJECT
Pollution reduction initiative “Particulate” (“Kieta dalelė”) together with the Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre (KCCC) are presenting an art project “The Island” at the yard of the History Museum of Lithuania Minor (Didžioji Vandens str. 2, Klaipėda) on the 21st of July, 2020, 6 PM.
At the downtown of the port city, rose an island made of trash, which the residents of Klaipėda gathered themselves from the forests at the seaside. The objective of this art project is to draw attention to the consequences of pollution and creative a positive change.
“Pollution is like a devil entering our lives in various forms. It tempts us to give in to the imaginary pleasures of irresponsible consumption, and later it makes us live in a nightmare with islands of plastic waste in the oceans and soot air in the city. That’s exactly what we’re breathing in today in Klaipėda”, – says the author of the installation, architect Marius Ščerbinskas.
The height of the art installation “The Island” marks the estimated rise in water level in a specific area due to the climate change, i.e. in a yard of downtown Klaipėda, next to KCCC. The installation also holds the information on the future displacement of shores of the Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic Sea. Here you can see how the rapid climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels will narrow the Curonian Spit, reduce the area of Klaipėda and finally will flood the Nemunas Delta together with the whole town of Šilutė.
The art project “The Island” symbolically opens the programme of event for the 15th anniversary of KCCC and illustrates the interinstitutional cooperation of the downtown Art complex. The green vegetation on the island compiled of trash is a kind of an interpretation of a future garden. The form of the installation reproducing the Lithuanian straw gardens, reflect the entirety of the surrounding cultural institutions and spaces.
The vegetation of the Lithuanian fields seen on “The Island” was “grown” by a florist Laima Griciūtė, the founder of the “Square of Flowers” (“Gėlių skveras”), which will open its doors at Didžioji Vandens str. 14A in August. The owner of the new flower oasis feels responsible for the blooming of the downtown of Klaipėda and hopes to raise a circle ecologically minded clients and contribute to the installations or events in Klaipėda.
The visitors of the installation, which will be exhibited until the 15th of October, are also invited to become the participants of the art project – bring plants and help “The Island” become greener. Later, the potted flowers and other plants will continue their life in various cultural spaces around Klaipėda. A part of the plants will go to the workshop and entertainment area “Tema”. This way the authors of “The Island” answers the invitation of a bar operating here “Herkus Kantas” to help revive the abandoned territories of the former Northern Cape on the way towards the old ferry.
“Particulate” (“Kieta dalelė”) is a pollution reduction initiative, which, together with the partners – University of Klaipėda and Klaipėda Movement for Ecology and Democracy (orig. KIDE) – was started by a manufacturer of electric buses “Dancer”. A surf club “SurfCamp” helped gather the trash from which the installation “The Island” is constructed of. The surfers ran a trash gathering campaign “Cool Surf Lesson” (“Kieta surf pamoka”) especially for this art project, the information on which can be found here: https://bit.ly/3janYGH.
The author of pictures – Domas Rimeika.
FULL PHOTO ALBUM of the presentation of the art instollation “The Island”.