Cape Farewell Greenland Voyage 2007

Hear from artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey as they carve a “Snow Cam” and create their glacial “Ice Lens” during the 2005 expedition. (Duration: 1:54 mins)

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Ben Jervey
Journalist (USA)

Ben is a freelance writer, environmental consultant, and ‘ecopreneur’ who, over the last decade, has been working towards a more sustainable life in New York City. He recently released a book to help others do the same, The Big Green Apple: Your Guide to Eco-Friendly Living in New York City.

Read Ben’s expedition blog ›
www.greenappleguide.com
www.evolvist.com

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Kathy Barber
Artist and Designer (Australia/UK)

Kathy has a background in graffiti art. She currently works with new media and the internet. She is a director of creative company Bullet and is designer of the Cape Farewell website, which was one of five winners in the e-Science category of the UN World Summit Awards, 2005. Kathy joined the 2004 Cape Farewell expedition and created the work ‘Here Today’ for Cape Farewell’s exhibition Art & Climate Change.

www.bulletclip.com

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Dr Simon Boxall
Oceanographer (UK)
Simon is a lecturer in Oceanography at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. He has monitored ocean environments worldwide in force 11 gales and in the compete calm, from the air, space and underwater, tracking and monitoring pollution and environmental impact.

‘The sad thing is that everyone assumes that cutting back on our CO2 emissions will necessarily be painful and expensive! For the average person in the street using less power, having better insulated homes, and more economical transport, will save them money and saves our environment and lifestyle. It’s a win/win situation.”
Dr Simon Boxall

www.noc.soton.ac.uk

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Vicky Long
Artist and Cape Farewell Project Director (UK)

Vicky has a background in theatre and scenography. Since 2005 she has produced exhibitions, events and film for Cape Farewell. Vicky enjoys working with a wide range of artists, to create work that gets right to the heart of what it is to be living today. She has worked in the UK, Netherlands, Czech Republic, India and Hong Kong and is excited by the internationalism of the Cape Farewell voyages in 2007. Vicky is also a voice-actor and singer and will keep a voice diary on the expedition, as well as recording poems, stories and songs, pertinent to the sea, the ice and our changing climate.

“Here is an opportunity for change. It will be exciting to look back in 30 years time and think, I was a part of that change.”
Dr. Chris West, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University

Cape Farewell launched its first international Youth Expedition and fourth Art Science voyage on Sunday 9th September at Southbank Centre. Hundreds of well wishers cheered the twelve students on their way, as the expedition launched on the Thames to a brass fanfare from the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Embarking on a landmark arts, science and media project, the students will voyage from Longyearbyen to the frozen extremes of Spitsbergen, Svalbard in the High Arctic.

The youth team were joined by members of the Art/Science crew, including Marcus Brigstocke, Kathy Barber and David Buckland.

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Brian Jungen
Artist (Canada)

Brian is a key figure in Vancouver’s art community. In 2006, an exhibition of Jungen’s work was held at Vancouver Art Gallery and in the UK, Jungen exhibited People’s Flag at the Tate Modern. Jungen’s practice re-crafts modern commodities into sculptural objects, entertaining a dialogue between his first-nation ancestry, the global economy and the object of art.

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Aminatu Goumar
Artist (Niger)

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Aminatu Goumar is musician and singer from the deserts of Africa. Born in Niger 28 years ago she was raised as a Touareg nomad traveling between Mali, Morocco, Algeria and Niger. She prefers to call herself a Saharian and not attached to one fixed country.

Aminatu now lives in Paris playing guitar, percussion and singing alongside Moussa Ag Keyna with the band Toumast. They take the music of the desert blues in an unexpected and radical direction and their album ‘Ishumar’ (‘Identity’) is a testimony of years of combat and struggle of the Toureg people. These compelling songs of exile and the nomadic life are driven by looping camel-gait rhythms, stinging electric guitar and gutteral call-and-response vocals. Bold touches in production – strings, sax enhance the funky grooves are punctuated by the beautiful, errie voice of Aminatu.

A Touareg nomad, who has spent his or her whole life amongst the compounds of the Sahara desert, is loath to leave. He follows his camels on the quest to find water, he tends his animals whilst absorbed in song, wrapping their faces in the turban that protects them from the harsh desert sands. But political persecution and drought are destroying this existence and have driven many people from the life they love. Aminatou, like many of her people, understand the vital significance of water and the direct impact global warming is having on their existence – they are close to the land and feel the effects first hand.

Despite the pain and sadness in the songs,there is also a passion for the desert that emerges through the lively rhythm, the vibrant melody and an irresistible pop sensibility.

http://www.realworldrecords.com/toumast