June 10, 2007
Call a Glacier - Art Project
"A unique work of art was unveiled today: Katie Paterson's sound installation called "A graveyard of glaciers", featues Vatnajokull, the largest though rapidly eroding glacier in Europe. The Guardian reports.
Viewers are invited to phone a glacier in Iceland - and listen to its death throes, live, through a microphone submerged deep in the bitterly cold lagoon which relays the splashes, creaks and groans as great masses of melting ice sheer off and crash into the water.
The visible tip of the project in Britain is Paterson''s neon sign in the Slade gallery, London, part of her degree show, which gives the mobile number 07758 225698, from which anyone can call and make direct contact with the polar icecap.
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