Maidir le 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.
Cé a chruthaigh Earth Speakr?
Olafur Eliasson a chruthaigh Earth Speakr in éineacht le muintir a stiúideo, daoine óga, comhpháirtithe cruthaitheacha, agus grúpa taighdeoirí agus saineolaithe. Tá sé maoinithe ag Oifig Gnóthaí Eachtracha na Cónaidhme ar ócáid Uachtaránacht na Gearmáine ar Chomhairle an Aontais Eorpaigh 2020 agus curtha i gcrích i gcomhar leis an Goethe-Institut.
Maidir le Olafur Eliasson
Ealaíontóir Danmhargach-Íoslannach is ea Olafur Eliasson ar rugadh é in 1967. Bíonn sé ag saothrú i réimse na dealbhóireachta, na péintéireachta, na grianghrafadóireachta, na scannánaíochta, na suiteála, agus na meán digiteach. An spéis a chuireann sé san aireachtáil, sa ghluaiseacht, san eispéireas coirp, agus i mothúcháin an duine fhéin agus an phobail a stiúrann a chuid ealaíne. Níl sé teoranta do shrianta an mhúsaeim agus an ghailearaí, agus meallann a chleachtas an pobal trí thionscadail ailtireachta, idirghabhálacha sa spás sibhialta, oideachas na n‑ealaíon, ceapadh beartas, agus gníomhaíocht ar son na haeráide. Ó lár na 1990idí i leith, tá go leor taispeántas agus tionscadal mór curtha i gcrích ag Eliasson ar fud na cruinne. In 2019, ainmníodh é mar Ambasadóir Dea-thola de chuid UNDP don ghníomhaíocht ar son na haeráide agus do na spriocanna forbartha inbhuanaithe.
Tá Stiúideo Olafur Eliasson lonnaithe i mBeirlín, agus tá foireann mhór ceardaithe, ailtirí, cartlannaithe, taighdeoirí, riarthóirí, cócairí, staraithe ealaíne, agus sainteicneoirí ag obair ann.
