The "Wind Words" project
is designed as a collaborative effort, aimed at placing people's
words as their proxy in Antarctica. While in Antarctica, the artist
will receive messages posted on a blog (see http://artantarctica.blogspot.com), asking that
certain phrases be "shared" with the world.
At the South Pole, the artist will speak the words
into the katabatic winds rolling down the glacier, out to the
Weddell Sea and
north
to the rest of the world. Cortada will do the same from
the sea ice at the McMurdo Station.
The words will
come from environmentally-themed phrases and/or New Year's wishes
participants will be encouraged to submit online.
Video clips
documenting the spoken words will be posted online.
Art in
ANTARCTICA