23 Sep 2019

NZ artist's installation projected onto UN building in New York

From First Up, 5:20 am on 23 September 2019

The United Nations climate summit starts today, leaders will gather to talk about what can be done to address climate change and keep nations to the Paris agreement. New Zealand artist Joseph Michael is in New York and created an installation called 'Voices for the future' that was projected onto the United Nations building. The work is a condensed version of his work 'Antarctica: while you were sleeping.' It features huge images of an Antarctic iceberg and the voices of six youth advocates speaking in the six UN languages. Indira spoke to Joseph last week and began by asking him who are the voices we hear

RNZ's award-winning podcast series Voice of the Iceberg is the story of Joseph Michael's expedition to Antarctica to photograph and record the sounds of icebergs.