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SUBMISSION IS NOW OFFICIALLY CLOSED.

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

SOLOMON ISLANDS

email from David in response to final email
will not be able to participate unless we can provide them with funds for equipment

BOLIVIA, CAMEROON, COLOMBIA, COOK ISLANDS, EGYPT, ETHIOPIA, GREECE, JORDAN, KUWAIT, MADAGASCAR, MAURITANIA MTN_091105, MONGOLIA MGL_091105, NIGER, SENEGAL, SOLOMON ISLANDS, SOUTH KOREA, SUDAN, ZAMBIA

sent email about final chance to participate to all countries that in the past either  said they were working on it or filmed their submission incorrectly and then were never heard from again

also sent PDF of press release

BANGLADESH

email from Md. Amirul Hussain, is clearer in what the problem is -
their facilities are limited and there is no separate place for filling balloons, balloons are filled where the gas is, but not open enough for filming to be done as we need. the balloons are then brought to a different, further place for release, so filming cannot be done as requested. he says the filming they already sent was done as best they could manage with what their facilities are
sent reply

BANGLADESH

email from Md. Amirul Hussain, is slightly confusing
says they have already filmed at their Rawin Station (which we received) -
says, “Due to the shortage of our facilities we discussed with our colligues and did the filming work. Some of your advice could not be followed. But if we go for additional filming, the filming status will not be changed so much. So I think additional filming (further filming) is not required. In this regard your comment would be appreciated.”

sent reply with filming instructions again, asking if they can either re-film, or send their recording unedited

PRESENTATION AT HIGH LEVEL RECEPTION OF WCC-3, SEP. 3 2009

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

 

BRAZIL BRA_090827

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

KENYA

email from Peter with all credit info, have all we need!

KENYA

email from Peter, will send info tomorrow, today is a holiday for the census exercise

KENYA

email from Peter, says he did not receive other messages
re-sent to him what info we need

ICELAND

email from Thorarinn H. Hardarson w/credit info

BRAZIL BRA_090818

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

ZAMBIA

sent email to Mr. Miyemba, have not heard from him

ICELAND

still no credit info, email Thorarinn Heidar Hardarson and Hersteinn Palsson again

KENYA

still need credit info, sent email to Peter

BANGLADESH

still have not heard from Md. Amirul Hussain about the possibility of refilming, sent him another email

BRAZIL BRA_090810

email from JMauro, is back in Brazil, wants to know how he can help
sent again exactly what we need for credit info

SOLOMON ISLANDS

another email to Mr. Hiriasia to see if they can still participate

ARGENTINA ARG_090806

sent email to Mario to see if he has their files in a higher resolution and frame rate & if they can resend

BRAZIL BRA_090806

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