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Melanie Gilligan + Tom Ackers – Multimedia Extras

Deep Time is a new multi-screen work by Melanie Gilligan and Tom Ackers, commissioned by Cape Farewell Foundation for Carbon 14: Climate is Culture (2013).

Deep Time

Melanie Gilligan + Tom Ackers
The piece explores various economic practices which see the natural “wealth” of physical processes through the logic of finance. The symbiosis between human culture and the natural world is broken, with capitalist development eating away at its own material base.

This Clement World

This Clement World is a fiercely creative and charismatic tribute to our rapidly changing environment, as seen through the prism of Cynthia Hopkins’ deeply personal lens and wild cross-disciplinary style. Performed live with a 15-piece chorus and band, This Clement World blends outlandish fiction and original avant-folk songs with Hopkins’ own documentary footage from an Arctic expedition with Cape Farewell, infusing our global climate crisis with humour, poetics and urgency.

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Carbon 14: Climate is Culture

The inaugural programming coming out of the North American office of Cape Farewell – the Cape Farewell Foundation, based in Toronto. A two-year project that began with an intensive workshop on the shores of Lake Ontario in the fall of 2011 and continues with a wide range of programming activities, culminating in a major exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum's (ROM) Centre for Contemporary Culture, a performing arts festival with The Theatre Centre (Toronto), and a rich series of public programs and events.

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Melanie Gilligan + Tom Ackers – Multimedia Extras

Deep Time

This Clement World

Day of Dialogue

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Multimedia Extras

Carbon 14: Climate is Culture

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