Om Earth Speakr
Earth Speakr is an artwork. Through an app active from 2020 to 2022, the artwork invited kids to speak up for the planet and adults to listen up to what they had to say. Now all the kids’ messages can be heard here on the Earth Speakr Map.
Today, the Earth Speakr website hosts and celebrates over 10,000 messages recorded by kids about the future of our planet – messages that are brilliant, funny, and heartbreakingly honest. It is a testament to the importance of listening to the next generations, as we adults make crucial decisions that inevitably affect their future.
As an artwork Earth Speakr couldn’t have been made alone. It emerged rather through the collective, creative effort of kids around the world. I believe that such accessible, borderless spaces, driven by creative expression, can bring us together to connect and share perspectives, while celebrating our differences. It is my hope that Earth Speakr has empowered kids across the EU and beyond by showing them that they too are able to share their worries and opinions with those who need to hear them.
- Olafur Eliasson, Earth Day, 2022
Earth Speakr was started by artist Olafur Eliasson and took shape with the input and ideas of its community. Earth Speakr speaks your language – it also speaks the 24 official languages of the European Union and can be accessed throughout the world.
Kids used the Earth Speakr app to record their ideas about the wellbeing of our planet. Adults are invited to participate by listening to the messages, sharing these with others, and amplifying the powerful messages kids have made.
Over half a million people around the world have downloaded the Earth Speakr app. More than 70 languages have been spoken within the app, from more than 120 countries around the world. The messages have been listened to by the general public over 3 million times through the Earth Speakr app and website.
Hvem står bag Earth Speakr?
Earth Speakr er lavet af Olafur Eliasson sammen med hans atelier, børn, kreative partnere og en gruppe forskere og eksperter, og er finansieret af det tyske udenrigsministerium i forbindelse med Tysklands formandsskab for Det Europæiske Unionsråd i 2020, i samarbejde med Goethe-Instituttet.
Om Olafur Eliasson
Den dansk-islandske kunstner Olafur Eliasson (f. 1967) arbejder med skulptur, maleri, fotografi, film, installationskunst og digitale medier. Omdrejningspunktet for Eliassons kunst er hans interesse i vores sansning og forståelse af verden, fysisk forankrede oplevelser og følelsen af selv og fællesskab. Hans praksis er ikke kun begrænset til museer og gallerier; han arbejder også med arkitektur, interventioner i det offentlige rum, undervisning samt samfundsrelevante temaer, særligt klimahandling. Siden midten af 1990’erne har Eliasson stået bag en lang række store udstillinger og projekter verden over. I 2019 blev han udnævnt til goodwill ambassadør for FN’s udviklingsprogram med fokus på klimaindsats og FNs verdensmål.
Studio Olafur Eliasson ligger i Berlin og består af et stort team af håndværkere, arkitekter, arkivarer, forskere, administratorer, kokke, kunsthistorikere og specialiserede teknikere.
