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What if we could witness our own contribution to climate change?

Citizens of developed countries are increasingly aware of correlations between our lifestyles and the climate crisis: witness the phenomenon of flygskam or “flying shame”.

Borrowing a groundbreaking formula from scientists* the filmmaker-artist calculates and saws off the exact amount of Arctic sea-ice (15.69m²) that will be destroyed by his carbon emissions flying economy return from Sydney to Greenland to film it (5.23 tonnes of CO₂e).

Adrift (∆Asea-ice) makes visible the consequences of a Western way of life. It touches upon disconnects — of cause from effect, of emissions here & now from melting there & then — that underly our psychological responses to global warming. Disconnects that have kept the problem comfortably abstract for us — until now**…

The full equation is
ΔAseaice = dFnonSW,in / dECO₂ x ΔECO₂

(This states that the total area of sea-ice lost equals a constant — derived from research into energy flux at the ice edge — of 3.0 ± 0.3 square metres per metric tonne of carbon dioxide emitted, multiplied by the sum of emissions. Inserting the artist’s own 5.23 tonnes of CO₂ into the equation, this works out at 15.69 ± 1.57 m² of sea-ice that will not regenerate naturally in northwest Greenland come winter. With less sea-ice to reflect sunlight back into space the ocean absorbs more heat, contributing to even faster warming in the Arctic.)

The soundtrack comprises æolian sounds from an empty water tank at the artist's house in northwest Greenland that 'sang' when it was windy.

* Notz, D., & Stroeve, J. (2016): Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO₂ emission. Science, 354, 747–750.

**An article about the work, “Adrift: Attribution & Responsibility in a Changing Climate” has been published in Flugschriften 4, pp.27-38.

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30" trailer for
AnthropoScene IV : Adrift (∆Asea-ice)
© Adam Sébire (Australia) 2019
Video triptych (also available single-screen), 8'05"
(3 channels: 1x 4K screen + 2x half-size HD screens, 3x Lupa media players supplied by artist, stereo audio.)

Installation premièred at the Max Planck Institute on Die Lange Nacht der Münchner Museen (Munich, September 2019).

Filming location: 72° 55' 53.84” N 56° 3' 34.19" W

More information: adamsebire.info/anthropoScenes

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