Every year world leaders get together to discuss progress on climate change action at the UN Conference of the Parties (COP).
In Check Against Delivery I examine the cycle of rhetoric that emerges from these gatherings: three decades of calls to action, while emissions and temperatures continue to rise relentlessly.
(work in progress)
(work in progress)
Images UN Climate Change
2024 - ongoing
The Willard Hotel, Washington, DC, Library of Congress
“Lobbying is about foresight”, still from Miss Sloane, directed by John Madden, 2016
Interinstitutional Agreement of 20 May 2021 on a mandatory transparency register, OJ, 2021
The Lobby of the House of Commons, Liborio Prosperi (’Lib’) published in Vanity Fair christmas supplement, 1886
Jacqueline Hassink about power territories, Mindscapes, 1998-2002
The port office, The Art and Architecture of European Port Authorities, European Sea Ports Organisation, 2013
Taryn Simon, from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, 2013
Veep, S1E1: Fundraiser, HBO
2022 - 2023
Robert Knudsen, White House Photographs, 1961, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
Unknown author, Unpacking of the face of the Statue of Liberty, which was delivered on June 17, 1885
John Rooney, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge showing 'The Thing' at the UN, 1960
Giuseppe Castiglione, Kazak envoys offering horses to Emperor Qianlong, 1757
Ugo Mulas, Christo, 1970
Charles Champetier, Philosophy of the Gift, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, 2001
Art Gallery of New South Wales, text about Christo’s Wrapped Paintings
Ger van Elk, The Symmetry of Diplomacy, 1973
Joy Hendry, Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation, and Power in Japan and Other Societies, 1993
2020 - 2021