BP Oil Spill Dance

Created by the CABK-ArtEZ Academy Alumni Laura Brockotter en Fenna Grijpma, 2010
Music: Bram van Beelen
www.laurabrockotter.nl
www.fennagrijpma.nl

Huffington Post:
Gulf Oil Spill: Scientists Beg For A Chance To Take Basic Measurements
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/06/gulf-oil-spill-scientists_n_636981.html

Deep Spill 2 Technical Science Plan
Mission Statement
On April 20, 2010, a catastrophic event in the Gulf of Mexico left the Macondo well flowing without control into its surrounding waters. Large volumes of crude oil and natural gas began to be released into the environment.
While there has been and continues to be much tragedy to the communities, the flora and the fauna of the Gulf of Mexico, this accidental emission of hydrocarbons into the environment provides a rare opportunity to capture critical raw data about such large and turbulent emissions, and to perform scientific experiments to deepen our knowledge of these hydrocarbon events.
This scientific mission was developed to address a wide range of critical scientific hypotheses that can only be tested during the actual spill. If we do not seize the moment, then irreplaceable scientific knowledge will be lost to humanity and our response to future accidents greatly diminished.
BP and its partners are working to stop the flow of the hydrocarbons. While our research team fully supports that effort, BP's urgency in its efforts requires any research on the Macondo well flow to begin as soon as possible.
With urgency in mind, this plan has been developed in great haste. The project was broken into sub- projects, and each sub-project was assigned to world-class, experienced leaders of science and research missions. This document details the scientific research and experiment procedures to be employed. All of the proposed experiments build on previously published research, and integrate numerous governmental, industrial, and academic institutes, laboratories, and communities.
Given the extensive planned experiments, procurement planning has been accomplished in parallel. Now, the key remaining challenge for the team is to find sufficient capital resources to make this scientific mission possible.
On June 10, 2010, Congressman Markey wrote a letter to BP in support of funding an effort to study the well emissions. Three weeks later, as of July 1, 2010, the Deep Spill 2 Team has heard absolutely nothing from BP. During this period the attached study was developed. The Deep Spill 2 scientific research mission remains unfunded, and the window of opportunity to capture potentially life saving and environmentally critical learning is tightening.
- Ira Leifer, Rick Coffin, and the Deep Spill 2 Team

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• BP
• Oil Spill
• Corexit
• Sociedad Cronopio
• CABK Zwolle
• Art
• Film
• École Beaux-Arts
• Fine-Arts academy
• Laura Brockotter
• Fenna Grijpma
• Gulf of Mexico
• Plankton
• Disaster
• 20 April 2010
• Wildlife

[VickiOsb]

As an artist myself (visual) I appreciate your effort to give artistic expression to what happened. I just hope you don't end up with an incurable condition from the toxins, like the lady that worked in cleanup and is now suffering intensely...and probably not going to live.

[CABKZWOLLE]

@VickiOsb Don't worry, it was all done in Dutch mud!

[CABKZWOLLE]

@VickiOsb And we feel very sorry for that lady and maybe many others that worked in that cleanup and got ill.

[FrgFty]

You are so unbelievably dumb. Do you have any idea how toxic that is?

[CABKZWOLLE]

@FrgFty Don't worry, it was all done in Dutch mud!

[VickiOsb]

That's a relief!

[nikka6666]

LOL

[marysimon]

Very evocative. I felt the agony of the birds. I just hope you weren't dancing in Corexit!