Air Pollution Art Project February 2016

Feb, 9 2016

~It has to be said that contemporary artists are consistently looking for new and innovative ways to create, design and produce works of art. In recent years we’ve seen unusual yet thought provoking artistic installations made from the world’s most original  artists.

Now a Preston artist is undergoing an experiment to detect the level of air quality in the city centre and how it affects our health and the local environment as part of a public engaging project.

Under the heading ‘Particulate Matters’ artist Rachel Chesney will study the air around us, the visual concept, our travel decisions and the personal response from our bodies.

A statement from In Certain Places, an arts group who are helping to co-rdinate the study, said:

“Particulate Matters is an artistic research project, designed by Rachel  which will employ the latest innovation in air quality monitoring to record, measure and analyse the exposure to air pollution of individual members of the public. She is looking to accompany a number of local people on their daily journeys through their areas of the city.”

Rachel is very specific about these daily journeys too. She is ideally looking for people on their commutes to work, parents doing the school run, shopping jaunts, dog walking and  visiting friends or relatives. All these journeys could take place either on foot, in cars, on bikes or public transport. The distance could vary from long or short and it may even involve more than one place in the case of, for instance, street cleaners, couriers or school crossing patrol officers.

If you would like to get involved with Rachel’s art project you need to be available for one of the following dates throughout the latter part of February :- 11,12,15,16,17,18,19,22,23,24,25. To register you will need to email :- info@incertainplaces.org

You may want to reflect on the following three questions from ‘In Certain Places’  that will help you see the bigger picture of Rachel’s health related art project,

“What would happen if we could suddenly see the air we breathe? How would we choose to travel, plan our cities and conduct our daily lives if pollution from traffic and industry was visible in our skies? How would we respond if we could see the effects of particulate matter on our hair, skin, lungs, heart and circulatory system?”

All will be revealed if you wish to attend one of the February dates listed above.