Futuresonic

A public reading of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Join volunteer readers in the first attempted public reading of this dense political document, to take place over several days.

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The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report is one of the most important reports ever written, yet it is also one of the least known. The tradition of public speaking associated with Town Criers and Speakers Corner has been used to communicate important messages for hundreds of years. At this time of global crisis, artist Amy Balkin revives this tradition to take the report direct to the people. While the IPCC’s reports are critical and revealing documents of the intersection of current geopolitics and science about climate change, their length, running to thousands of pages, makes them unlikely to be read by most people.

Biography

Amy Balkin's projects consider how we occupy the social and material landscapes we inhabit. They include collaborative environmental justice audio tour Invisible-5, clean-air park Public Smog, and This is the Public Domain, an ongoing effort to initiate a permanent international public commons near Tehachapi, California. She lives in San Francisco.

www.publicsmog.org
www.invisible5.org
www.thisisthepublicdomain.org