Time and Tide: Resilience, Adaptation, Art

我们理解和应对气候危机的能力需要艺术和人文的投入。我们知道，视觉艺术家、作家和人文学者特别擅长科学与公众之间的交流，但艺术也是科学必不可少的合作伙伴。在适应不确定性和为紧迫的环境问题制定解决方案方面，艺术可以发挥关键作用。该项目调查了一个永久性的公共艺术倡议--时间和潮汐钟声--如何推动社区对气候变化采取行动，成为科学和艺术规划的核心，以及促进环境和社会经济韧性的催化剂。这件作品包括一些大型铸造青铜雕塑钟，已经安装在英国海岸各地，从德文郡的阿普普罗尔到刘易斯的博斯塔海滩。由艺术家Marcus Vergette和音响工程师Neil McLauchlan设计，潮汐波的作用使钟声以丰富的铿锵音调响起，不断提醒人们变化的海洋和我们与它们的联系。每个钟的形状、位置、和声和铜绿(由于水中的污染物)都不同，反映了它所在位置的特定身份。在不同程度上，钟声已经成为地区神话的一部分，气候变化和地貌变化的象征，生物多样性教育的焦点，以及健康和福祉的刺激。然而，它们的共同点是，它们对不断上升的海平面造成了损失，这不可避免地提醒人们，气候变化对沿海景观和沿海生计的影响。这项深入的研究将集中在六个地点：两个在德文郡，两个在威尔士，一个在东米德兰兹郡，一个在西北部。德文贝尔的阿普普罗尔是一个活跃的社区艺术团体和教育课程的中心。德文郡的第二个社区Brixham将成为新社区规划的测试案例，因为它的钟将于今年9月安装。威尔士的两个钟声(在Cemaes和Aberdyfi)与地质、古代水下景观、神话和威尔士身份以及工业遗产特别相关。林肯郡的Mablethorpe和兰开夏郡的Morecambe Bay都有独特的海景和生物多样性的海洋生态系统，这些都是积极的公民科学计划的特色。Mablethorpe和Morecambe都是历史上和/或最近沿海灾难的发生地，在Morecambe，与旅游业有关的社会经济衰退，以及与贫穷和不平等有关的健康衰退。这个项目调查了时代和潮汐钟声倡议如何促进这些不同的社区，激发关于环境、教育和文化问题的讨论和行动。它还将确定我们可以做得更好的地方。它将测试气候变化艺术和“过渡艺术实践”：这些类型的艺术倡议如何帮助社区应对“日光之痛”，即环境负面的、往往是戏剧性的变化所造成的痛苦感觉？气候变化艺术如何促进气候变化科学转化为社区行动？我们如何才能利用神话、当地历史、记忆和区域叙事来使受到威胁和威胁的海岸及其社区更具弹性？艺术如何帮助我们更深入地理解气候变化、海洋生物多样性与人类健康和福祉之间的联系？而共同创作的公共活动节目，结合了文字和图像，科学和创造力，事实和记忆，如何增强面向公众的艺术的变革潜力？

Our ability to understand and to respond to climate crises requires input from the arts and humanities. We know that visual artists, writers, and humanities scholars are particularly adept at communicating between science and public, but the arts are also essential partners to the sciences. Art has a critical role to play in adapting to uncertainty and to developing solutions to urgent environmental issues. This project investigates how one permanent, public art initiative, Time and Tide Bell, has been an impetus for community action on climate change, a centrepiece of science and arts programming, and a catalyst for environmental and socio-economic resilience. The work consists of a number of large cast bronze sculptural bells that have been installed at sites all around the British coast, from Appledore, Devon to Bosta Beach, Lewis. Designed by artist Marcus Vergette with sound engineer Neil Mclauchlan, the action of tidal waves causes the bells to ring in richly sonorous tones, a persistent reminder of changing seas and our connections to them. Each bell, different in form, position, harmonic tone, and patina (due to water-borne contaminants) has come to reflect the particular identity of its location. To varying degrees, the bells have become part of regional mythos, symbols of climate change and of changing landscapes, focal points for education about biodiversity, and stimuli for health and wellbeing. What they have in common, though, is the way they toll rising sea levels, an inescapably resonant reminder of the impact of climate change on coastal landscapes and coastal livelihoods. This embedded research will focus on six locations: two in Devon, two in Wales, one in the East Midlands and one in the North West. The Appledore, Devon bell is at the centre of an active community arts group and educational curriculum. The second Devon community, Brixham, will be a test case for new community programming, as its bell will be installed in September of this year. The two bells in Wales (at Cemaes and Aberdyfi) are particularly connected to geology, ancient submerged landscapes, myth and Welsh identity, and industrial heritage. Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire and Morecambe Bay, Lancashire both have unique seascapes and biodiverse marine ecosystems, which feature in active Citizen Science programmes. Both Mablethorpe and Morecambe have been the location of historical and/or recent coastal disasters, and in the case of Morecambe, socio-economic downturn related to tourism and health decline related to poverty and inequality. This project investigates the ways that the Time and Tide Bell initiative has catalysed these different communities, stimulated discussion and action on environmental, educational, and cultural issues. It will also identify what we can do better. It will test climate change art and 'transitional arts practices': how can these types of art initiatives help communities contend with 'solastalgia', the sense of distress caused by negative and often dramatic change to environments? How can climate change art facilitate the transformation of climate change science into community action? How can we use myth, local history, memory and regional narrative to make threatened and threatening coasts, and their communities more resilient? How can art help us understand more deeply the connections between climate change, marine biodiversity, and human health and wellbeing? And, how might co-creative public events programming, which combines word and image, science and creativity, fact and memory, enhance the transformational potential of public-facing arts?