Output details

Plunge

Plunge (7 February - 1 April 2012) was created by Pinsky to form an arc across central London that encircled three noteworthy London monuments: the Duke of York Column, the Paternoster Square Column and the Seven Dials Sundial Pillar. Using illuminated blue lines of low energy LED lights, these indicators mark out a time a thousand years in the future when, following sea level rises and as a result of climate change, these columns will be partly submerged as the Thames swallows up much of the capital as a consequence of its rising levels due to global warming. Plunge invites the spectator to look again at some of the monuments in the capital with this change in mind and to think about how to protect their future and maintain any sense of the individual’s link to their cultural heritage. The workself consciously generated public debates on-line and in the press about the impact of climate change and its consequences for heritage sites.

Plunge: http://plungelondon.com/about-plunge/ / www.michaelpinsky.com/data/plunge.pdf

The work was supported by Artsadmin (see: http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/projects/plunge) and London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) as part of the Imagine 2020 network programme. It was funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, the European Culture Programme, Trust Greenbelt, WWF-UK and the Big Give, in partnership with Royal Parks, Seven Dials Trust and Paternoster Square Management Limited.

http://liftfestival.com/content/12655/archive/2012/plunge/plunge

Plunge was reviewed by:

BBC News (see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16999036) CNN (see: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/16/world/environmental-green-art/index.html)

The Guardian (see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/01/in-praise-of-plunge).

Plunge was shortlisted for the 2013 Climate Week Awards, in the Best Artistic Response Category (http://plungelondon.com/plunge-shortlisted-for-climate-week-awards/)