Art Project #5: The Beauty of Tar

Art Project #5: The Beauty of Tar

Description: A mock public relations campaign lauding the beauty and benefits of the Alberta Tar Sands

Objectives: to make people think about the cost in terms of bad PR (while the much greater cost to the environment is cynically ignored – though ever-present)  that exploitation of the tar sands will mean for Canada and Alberta – will the cost be even greater than the profit and economic spin-offs realized?

Artists: Tatiana Iliina (visual artist); Offroad Artist (conceptual artist);

New Art Project #2 The Underwater Gallery

Art Project #2: Create an underwater gallery

Objective: to draw attention to the problem of global warming and rising water levels.

Project Timing: June, 2009 – in progress (first stage of project complete)

Artists: Tatiana Iliina, Offroad Artist, participants

$10 Billion Tourism Deficit Bites Harper in the Ass – But Does He Know it?

Here’s a case of being so dumb you wouldn’t know a bad move if it bit you in the ass.

A report by the Canadian Tourism Commission has laid out the bare facts: That Canada’s tourism deficit has spiraled from under $2 billion in 2003 to over $10 billion last year. Judging by steep year over year shortfalls in traffic from the U.S. in the first part of this year, the trend will continue and the situation will worsen.

At the same time, the Harper government is reducing spending on culture.

The bottom line, the country becomes even less attractive for foreign tourists. The more you reduce spending in culture, the more bland and uninspiring our country becomes.

Get with it!

Art Freedom Ocean to Ocean Tour reaches the Pacific

Ideas A.F.O.O.T., the Art Freedom Ocean to Ocean Tour – reached the Pacific Ocean at Long Beach, south of Tofino, British Columbia yesterday, August 15, 2008.

The tour continues with a return eastward leg beginning tomorrow.