Dear participants and supporters!
It’s been a long journey, and we are therefore especially pleased to inform you about this year’s high-level presentations of ‘Twelve O’Clock in London’ as part of the 2009 United Nations’ climate summits. We will keep you updated about future events as the project will go on a touring museum exhibition by the end of next year.
with best regards and thanks for your support and initiative,
Nin Brudermann
Director, Twelve O’Clock in London
We are pleased to announce Nin Brudermann’s project ‘Twelve O’Clock in London’ as part of the United Nations’ agenda on Millenium Development Goals. The first in a series of select screenings was presented September 3rd, 2009, within the framework of the World Climate Conference, to Heads of States and Governments at Victoria Hall, Geneva, preceding a concert by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Afterwards, the artist officially presented a symbolic weather balloon to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, as a central gesture of the international collaboration which the project brings to light.
Brudermann’s ‘Twelve O’Clock in London’ is a uniquely relevant collaboration (linking the arts, sciences and politics) that illuminates an inter-governmental action occurring daily at the strike of UTC 00.00h and 12.00h, as all nations synchronously launch meteorological balloons in order to realize a global observation of the atmosphere. Supported by the United Nations Special Agency, World Meteorological Organization, she has enlisted each individual nation to become active documentarians of their own action. For the first time, this one of a kind, unprecedented collaboration of all world governments is manifest in a one-channel video presentation which shows over 150 video submissions from around the globe.
By assembling a United Nations’ action as simple as the synchronous release of a balloon for presentations at high-profile receptions for world leaders, the artist is directly addressing an audience at the highest political level and rendering the presentation itself into an artist intervention, in keeping with the multivalent character of the artist’s inimitable works.
‘Twelve O’Clock in London’ is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts with funding provided by the New York State Council on the Arts and by the Greenwall Foundation New York.
For further information please visit the project’s official website: www.12oclockinlondon.com
Contact: info@12oclockinlondon.com
Nin Brudermann with the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon, Grand Theatre Geneva, Sept. 3rd 2009
photo: @ Point-of-Views.ch
email from JMauro
tried to send credit info y fax, but # did not work, sent a scan by email. looks good except is missing specific date and UTC
sent email for that info
email from Peter, will send info tomorrow, today is a holiday for the census exercise
email from Peter, says he did not receive other messages
re-sent to him what info we need
sent another email to JMauro as well as to the Director, Dr Antonio Divino Moura and Gilvan Fernandes Marcelino detailing what we need for the credit info
still no credit info, email Thorarinn Heidar Hardarson and Hersteinn Palsson again
still have not heard from Md. Amirul Hussain about the possibility of refilming, sent him another email
email from JMauro, is back in Brazil, wants to know how he can help
sent again exactly what we need for credit info
sent email to Mario to see if he has their files in a higher resolution and frame rate & if they can resend
email from JMauro!
is in NY and wants to know if we should meet. didn’t get the other emails, will send credit info next week
does not have the files in high res, but will double check w/ guy in Brazil
email JMauro again for credit info, also found more videos they had sent, asked if they can re-send in a higher res
email Lieutenant General Odysseas Galanopoulos asking if they can refilm, re-sent filming info & examples
