Climate Money - Bank of Nature
Digital print series
2021-22
Digital print series
2021-22
Over the years many bank note designs across nations have relied on the themes of animals, historic events, famous places or people to be depicted on bills. In the 1890s though the USA marketed a very different series of bank notes known as the ‘educational series.’ Rather than the typical configuration of a president depicted on the cover side, these notes allowed all residents and particularly those located in rural areas to see represented specific phenomena from scientific to technological advancements that might not otherwise have access to such pictorial representations in their own communities. These 19th C story-based market currencies were also seen as a way to create learning spot for residents to explore and understand some of the most up to date technologies being developed in the USA.
Inspired by the idea of currency as an educational platform, - artists Borda and JKD, B+D created their own climate bank notes. Their illustrations depict scenes and ideas about the consequences of not undertaking coastal and terrestrial climate mitigation. Their climate notes offer the public another urgent way to understand what's at stake if we do not act globally. Their use of the bank note as a teaching and visual platform leverages and creates another platform for extend climate conversations and actions about climate. B+D’s tender drawings are universal and designed for cross national use. There are 3 different drawn iterations of this series.
While artists such as Andy Warhol and the Chapman brothers have used currency to amplify artist authorship, pop culture and market place values, B+D are interested in currency as a conceptual platform. They see the art as a place of occupation and as a call to inform much needed climate mitigation processes at a global level. The artists are of the belief that their work can also parody or bridge how markets of capital exchange can now be tendered as a way to enhance climate knowledge, and exchange.
Ultimately B+D are hopeful that their bank notes tendered under the 'Bank of Nature' can persuade personal and market actors about the work needed to preserve, adapt and strengthen our responses to support natural system management. In their monetary system the artists use the elements of Water, Air, Earth and Fire to illustrate concepts related to climate change.
Inspired by the idea of currency as an educational platform, - artists Borda and JKD, B+D created their own climate bank notes. Their illustrations depict scenes and ideas about the consequences of not undertaking coastal and terrestrial climate mitigation. Their climate notes offer the public another urgent way to understand what's at stake if we do not act globally. Their use of the bank note as a teaching and visual platform leverages and creates another platform for extend climate conversations and actions about climate. B+D’s tender drawings are universal and designed for cross national use. There are 3 different drawn iterations of this series.
While artists such as Andy Warhol and the Chapman brothers have used currency to amplify artist authorship, pop culture and market place values, B+D are interested in currency as a conceptual platform. They see the art as a place of occupation and as a call to inform much needed climate mitigation processes at a global level. The artists are of the belief that their work can also parody or bridge how markets of capital exchange can now be tendered as a way to enhance climate knowledge, and exchange.
Ultimately B+D are hopeful that their bank notes tendered under the 'Bank of Nature' can persuade personal and market actors about the work needed to preserve, adapt and strengthen our responses to support natural system management. In their monetary system the artists use the elements of Water, Air, Earth and Fire to illustrate concepts related to climate change.
Review
Camptelli, Maria. ‘Le Terre in transformazione Artisti in Porto Vecchio per il pianeta che cambia’ in Arte & Culture section, Il Piccolo Trieste, Italy, 26 August, 2022.
Exhibitions
2023-2024
Crisis Gaia, C3 Complexity Science Center, Circuito Centro Cultural, Cd. Universitaria, Coyoacán, Mexico City (Dec 2023-Feb2024)
Curator: Manolo Cocho
2022
Terra in Transformazione, Magazzino 26, Porto Vecchio, Trieste, Italy (catalogue) (September 2-24)
Curator: Maria Campitelli, Vasja Nagy
Catalog
Über Globales, Endemie, Gaia und Krise, SKICA Wien - SOHO studios, Liebknechtgasse, Vienna, Austria (Sept 20-30, 2022)
Camptelli, Maria. ‘Le Terre in transformazione Artisti in Porto Vecchio per il pianeta che cambia’ in Arte & Culture section, Il Piccolo Trieste, Italy, 26 August, 2022.
Exhibitions
2023-2024
Crisis Gaia, C3 Complexity Science Center, Circuito Centro Cultural, Cd. Universitaria, Coyoacán, Mexico City (Dec 2023-Feb2024)
Curator: Manolo Cocho
2022
Terra in Transformazione, Magazzino 26, Porto Vecchio, Trieste, Italy (catalogue) (September 2-24)
Curator: Maria Campitelli, Vasja Nagy
Catalog
Über Globales, Endemie, Gaia und Krise, SKICA Wien - SOHO studios, Liebknechtgasse, Vienna, Austria (Sept 20-30, 2022)