Amsterdam Light Festival 2019 featured “The ice is melting at the pøules”, a light artwork by Martin Ersted in Amsterdam.
“The ice is melting at the pøules!”, warned Danish Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009. His funny Danish pronunciation of the word ‘poles’ received more attention than the content of his message, minimising the urgency of the problem.
About Martin Ersted
Martin Ersted’s laser light machines, Moon Machine I and Moon Machine II, are placed in a ‘Tiny Office’ opposite the Maritime Museum, on the Kortjewantsbrug.
Programme information from Amsterdam Light Festival. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.