Jerry Cope: Tck Tck Tck Countdown to Copenhagen Launches in Telluride

The spectacular setting of Telluride, Colorado provided a breathtaking venue for the launch of two important environmental campaigns this week. On Thursday over three hundred of the town's residents lay down on the ground to send the first message in the global Tck Tck Tck campaign. John Quigley/SpectralQ whose previous aerial photographs in the Artcic Wisdom series led to Global Warming being considered as a human rights issue, designed an image which featured the number "350" framed by lightening bolts and the words "green power". The Climate Art Action Campaign 2009 is a grassroots initiative to pressure and support leaders in making courageous decisions to aggressively address global climate change. The campaign will culminate at the COP15 Climate Talks in Copenhagen this December and will feature the unique medium of human aerial artwork where communities gather together to send powerful unified messages with their bodies. Human aerial artwork allows people to use their bodies as a human ... (link)