"viewers will be invited to throw oil-like paint on the dancers": Check out some of the insanity planned for this year's Climate [Hoax] Week NYC, sponsored by Swiss Re/Bloomberg/etc

Monday, September 24, 2012 | Climate Week NYC 2012

Laura Mega’s joins the Human Impacts Institute’s 10 Days of Climate Action with a performance that reminds us how immense amounts of greenhouse gas emissions come from producing and processing food, contributing greatly to climate change. In her startling performance, Mega surgically “works” on wounds that are inflicted to nature, removing the internal areas of fruits and vegetables and then sewing them up with stitches using surgical thread. The performance reflects upon how vegetables and fruits are forced to grow artificially outside their original climate or due to human desire, forcing the memory of the product linked to the land to be erased.

10 Days of Climate Action: Slick Move - An Interactive Performance on Oil Addiction and Climate  -- Friday, September 28, 2012 | Climate Week NYC 2012

Open Skeye Collective brings their innovative energy to the Human Impacts Institute’s 10 Days of Climate Action with an interactive multi-disciplinary performance piece on oil addiction and climate. As two dancers perform in front of a film projection, viewers will be invited to throw oil-like paint on the dancers. With this piece, Open Skeye confronts oil addiction and ignorance or complacency around the grave effects of pollution. Fun, excitement, and humor will be the overall emotion in partaking in this event but then a heavier, lingering thought will sustain about the public’s own actions during the performance which will translate into their personal lives. As viewers willingly make the choice to “pollute” dancers, the piece calls to question our sense of personal responsibility and the consequences of our actions.

10 Days of Climate Action: The Human Impacts Climate Carnival  - Saturday, September 29, 2012 | Climate Week NYC 2012

Join members of the Human Impacts Institute crew as they bring a fun-filled climate carnival experience to NYC: Meet Madame Climate, who will tell your climate future; Beware of the Climate Wheel of Fate, where you’ll meet the consequences of your climate decisions; and Sit in bewilderment as you meet the whole crazy climate crew with live performances, games, and mystifying climate conundrums for the whole family!

10 Days of Climate Action: School Evacuation - A Performance of Vulnerability and Climate  - Sunday, September 30, 2012 | Climate Week NYC 2012

Bridge-crossers receive a 40’s-style newspaper from a newsboy at the Manhattan side of the bridge, with the headline “Fish Evacuate Ocean!” and a series of articles outlining the catastrophes of the day: a dried up Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico full of bottlecaps, the heroic effort that New Yorkers are making to put the evacuating fish into their bathtubs. This teaser paper is followed by the performance itself: a ‘school’ of fish – 15 children and 5 adults wearing fish masks and 1940’s attire -- flee the ocean’s murky, uninhabitable depths by emerging from the East River and plunging into Dumbo. They move horribly slowly, as if through mud. While some of the younger kids take the evacuation lightly – continuing their games of Jacob’s Ladder

Sponsors | Climate Week NYC 2012

[Includes Swiss Re, Bloomberg, Quebec, and the United Nations Foundation]