UK environment program to come to China
- By Ke Wang
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China.org.cn, July 13, 2011
An interactive environment program developed in the UK that encourages audiences to make decisions on how to respond to scenarios of a climate-changed future in 2033 will come to China next year, an organizer said Wednesday in Beijing.
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3rd Ring Out from the UK is an interactive environment program that will tour China next year. [By Ke Wang/China.org.cn] |
The multimedia performance called 3rd Ring Out has been touring the UK since last year, with artists, environmentalists and climate scientists bringing insight into the ways in which art can address, explore and mediate questions triggered by climate change.
"We want to share our experiences in Britain with Chinese audiences," said Zoë Svendsen, the co-director of 3rd Ring Out. "We will discuss local environment issues, as well as global ones, and try to find the proper solutions."
The arts consortium Without Walls describe the artist behind 3rd Ring Out as using "live performance, video simulation and interactive computer systems to produce work [that] responds to contemporary concerns. The result has the immediacy of theatre combined with the thrill of a disaster movie; a fiction rooted in fact."
As the scenario unfolds through performances and videos, the program asks participants to vote on a number of options based on budgets and outcomes.
Svendsen stressed the program in China will mainly focus on local issues, such as climate impacts on cities or urban living, planning issues around adaptation and change, the cultural perception of climate change in China, and energy efficiency.
"China is a huge country, much larger than Britain," Svendsen said. "The climate across China is different from one place to another. So the solutions should be diversified."
Co-director Simon Daw said they will communicate with local authorities and organizations to design the Chinese program.
"We do hope to connect people both from the UK and China together and to let them know more about the climate change," Svendsen said.
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