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Malvern Exhibition of Contemporary Art |
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| Mark Baldwin |
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WILL WE FLY WHEN THE OIL RUNS OUT?
Peak Oil is a major challenge soon to be faced by humanity. At some point, the amount of crude oil being extracted from the ground will stop increasing, and decrease. This may already have happened. |
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| Society as we know it depends on a plentiful supply of cheaply available Crude Oil. It is not known when the oil will run out, nor is it known what will happen when this occurs. Many things currently taken for granted, from cheap flights to plastic containers, will have to be dispensed with or totally reinvented. The challenge of Peak Oil and the subsequent diminishing of reserves is steeped in uncertainty. It may be a terrible cataclysmic event, and yet it may push humanity in a creative direction that no-one has yet thought of. |
| To reflect this uncertainty, the performance WILL WE FLY WHEN THE OIL RUNS OUT? is an attempt to engage with uncertainties of depletion.It is a one-off instance of Performance Architecture, which takes place here at 2 pm, Sunday 23rd of August, 2009. If you are here after that date, then what you see through the window is the aftermath of the performance. Similarly, the descendents of today’s humans will not witness the event of Peak Oil as it happens: they will be left with the aftermath. |
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