How to Participate in Olafur Eliasson’s New Artwork

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OlafurEliasson wants us to rethink the way that we see our planet in a time of crisis 🌍

, who is best known for his conceptual and often immersive artworks, has launched what is perhaps his largest project to date. Part of, a new multi-year project by London’s Serpentine Galleries, which invites artists from varying disciplines to respond to the climate emergency, the “participatory artwork” urges everyone to take part.download nine images of the planet Earth

, each in fluoro orange and pink, people are encouraged to stare at the dot in the middle of the image for ten seconds, before looking at a blank surface. The after image will appear in new colours, differing from person to person – as Eliasson promises, a new perspective on the world in which we live.

“Today, ‘the world as we know it’ is a phrase of the past,” he said in an earlier statement. “The current health crisis has brought our societies close to a halt, affecting our economies, our freedoms, and even our social ties. We must take the time to empathise with all those struck by the crisis and also seize this opportunity to imagine together the earth that we want to inhabit in the future – in all its wonders and beauty, in the face of all the challenges ahead of us.

Each of the dots will place focus on a different place on the planet under particular threat from the climate emergency, from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia to the Ganges in India, as well as the Greenland ice sheet. Others are sites of previous environmental disasters, like Chernobyl in Ukraine. The hope is that the project sparks conversations between those who are taking part.

 

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