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Climate Emergency Services by artist Mike Stubbs is a ‘conflicted’ vehicle and artwork, aiming to evoke and challenge our love / hate relationship with motor vehicles in a period becoming characterised by our increasing fear of climate change on 20th of July 2021, in Folkestone, United Kingdom. The conflicted quality of the artwork’s message is condensed into the contract between the exterior and interior of the vehicle.Outside, the bodywork references the high temperature culture of car modification for ‘high performance’ and the linkage between the conspicuous consumption of oil and ‘the apocalyptic’. Inside, the cabin is designed to evoke a science laboratory that might be plotting the environmental indicators triggered by climate change, and a place of cool optimism in which the thinking needed to survive that climate change can be pursued. The artwork is part of the Creative Folkestone Triennial 2020, The Plot, which sees 27 newly commissioned artworks appearing around the south coast seaside town. The new work builds on the work from previous triennials making Folkestone the biggest urban outdoor contemporary art exhibition in the UK. (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)

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Image Size: 4724x3149 / 1.5MB; www.andrewaitchison.com; 2021 Aitchison Art Creative Creative Folkestone Triennial 2020 Folkestone Seafront Folkestone Triennial 2020 Kent Mike Stubbs The Plot UK art exhibition artist artwork artworks car modification climate climate change colour colourful conflicted contemporary culture emergency environmental exhibition folkestone high performance high temperature indicators installation joyful light oil open air outdoor science laboratory seafront seaside services south coast town triennial urban vehicle
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Climate Emergency Services by artist Mike Stubbs is a ‘conflicted’ vehicle and artwork, aiming to evoke and challenge our love / hate relationship with motor vehicles in a period becoming characterised by our increasing fear of climate change on 20th of July 2021, in Folkestone, United Kingdom. The conflicted quality of the artwork’s message is condensed into the contract between the exterior and interior of the vehicle.Outside, the bodywork references the high temperature culture of car modification for ‘high performance’ and the linkage between the conspicuous consumption of oil and ‘the apocalyptic’. Inside, the cabin is designed to evoke a science laboratory that might be plotting the environmental indicators triggered by climate change, and a place of cool optimism in which the thinking needed to survive that climate change can be pursued. The artwork is part of the Creative Folkestone Triennial 2020, The Plot, which sees 27 newly commissioned artworks appearing around the south coast seaside town. The new work builds on the work from previous triennials making Folkestone the biggest urban outdoor contemporary art exhibition in the UK. (photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)