The Clipperton Project Partners:
Glasgow Sculpture Studios
MELD
The Clean Oceans Project
NABROAD

Link: http: www.clippertonproject.com

The Clipperton Project

The Clipperton Project manifests a current model of exploring and collaborating internationally across the fields of arts and science, which is relevant to the world we live in today. 

The Clipperton Project have invited a group of 16 artists and scientists from 6 different countries on the three-week journey to this completely isolated French atoll in March 2012. 

Clipperton is an uninhabited French island located 1250 kilometers from the Mexican coast. The scientists will undertake studies on Climate Change and the Biosphere whilst the artists produce work based on the history of the island and the voyage there. All work (scientific and artistic) will then be exhibited in a variety on institutions, museums and foundations over the course of the ensuing years, and a book will be published reflecting this work and the journey undertaken.

The island’s history just as much as its ecosystem are utterly unique, and continue to reside well outside human experience, something increasingly rare in today’s world.
Remarkably, despite being a deserted island last populated in 1917, it has a postcode; (98799 – Fr). It has no drinkable water (outside of its eutrophic lagoon), and its main residents are poisonous crabs and rats literally left over from sinking ships.

The Work
At the core of The Clipperton Project lies the firm belief that
– when undertaken honestly – there is no distinction between Art and Science, or indeed between these and other human endeavours. In other words, that artists and scientists and architects and doctors and journalists are all engaged with attempting to make sense of our predicament.

As such, although trapped within a larger global sense of understanding which has rigidly established the words and categories of Arts and Science, The Clipperton Project refutes the fact that these nominal categories exist, or that they are useful distinctions. Therefore, it might be said that the work being undertaken as part of The Clipperton Project is simply that which behoves experts who have chosen a particular field, but who through the expedition to the island of Clipperton and its subsequent presentations are aware above all of the limitations imposed by these fields.

Clipperton is a space which offers room for study and reflection on various topics, including: memory; climate change; habitats; marine life; islands; metagenomics; atolls; nations; voyages; weather; coral reefs; pollution; man and his environment; and much, much more.
It is hoped and expected that all participants will engage with all of these notions – and further, that post-expedition presentations will not respect any pre-existing or pre-conceived distinctions or parameters.  

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