The Longitudinal Installation

The Longitudinal Installation: South Pole (2007) and North Pole (2008)


Xavier Cortada painted and placed 24 in a circle around the North and South Poles, each representing a person living in a different part of the world affected by climate change. The shoes were placed next to each other in their respective longitudes as a proxy for people in the world below. After positioning the shoes, Cortada went to each shoe and recited a statement from a person living in that longitude about how climate change affected or will affect them.

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"Placing shoes next to each other (around a circle at the two points on Earth where all longitudes converge), I aim to conceptually diminish the distance between people across the globe."

-- Xavier Cortada

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Miami based artist Xavier Cortada has created art installations at the Earth's poles to generate awareness about global climate change. iami based artist Xavier Cortada has created art installations at the Earth's poles to generate awareness about global climate change: In 2007, the artist used the moving ice sheet beneath the South Pole as an instrument to mark time; the art piece will be completed in 150,000 years. In 2008, he planted a green flag at North Pole to reclaim it for nature and in so doing launched a global reforestation eco-art effort.