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"A herd of elephants has descended on New York, making their way down the
cobblestone streets of the Meatpacking District in what’s being hailed as the
largest outdoor public art installation in the city since Christo and
Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates in 2005.
Titled “The Great Elephant Migration,” the project features 100 life-size
sculptures of Indian elephants crafted over the last five years by the
Coexistence Collective, a team of 200 Indigenous artisans from Nilgiri
Biosphere Reserve in South India.
The traveling exhibition is raising money for 22 partnering conservation
non-governmental organizations, or NGOs dedicated to saving not only elephants,
but various types of wildlife. Each stop on the tour will also benefit a local
nonprofit. In New York, that’s the Wild Bird Fund.
It has the backing of celebrities supporters including Cher, Padma Lakshmi,
Susan Sarandon, Waris Ahluwalia, and Diane von Furstenberg, as well as Ann
Philbin, director of the Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los
Angeles, and artist Joana Vasconcelos. (In a nod to elephants’ familial
structure, the largely female group is called the
Matriarchy.)
The public art project is the brainchild of Ruth Ganesh, a British animal
rights activist. She cofounded the collective, which is part of the Real
Elephant Collective nonprofit, with Tarsh Thekaekara, an elephant researcher
and scientist who lives in India."
Via Joyce Donahue and Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
