Skeleton Sea

Free Orca is developing nicely…

skeletonsea — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:28:06 +0000

After 3 days of art workshops at the Volvo Ocean Race Stopover in Miami, the Free Orca installation is coming together nicely. School kids are very impressed of the Skeleton Sea Albatross film and Xandi has the chance to introduce the idea to them and answering their questions about the project. During the art workshop, anyone can help creating mosaik patches with the plastic trash found at the beach cleaning last Saturday. Xandi is mounting these patches as a skin to the Free Orca installation…check out some pictures!

Sucess at Miami Beach Clean Up

xandi — Sun, 13 May 2012 01:51:14 +0000

More than 60 people joined forces to help the Volvo Ocean Race’s environmental project Keep the Oceans Clean! plant mangroves at Virginia Key and pick up rubbish at Key Biscayne.

Keep the Oceans Clean resident artist Xandi Kreuzeder, who will use the trash to create a sculpture, said it was one of the most successful clean-ups yet.

“It was great to have the added experience of planting mangroves, it is something that is unique to the area and will make a huge difference to the banks that are being eroded because of the insurgence of foreign plant species,’’ he said.

“The beach clean was also unique. There was a lot of trash that had obviously come from picnics. Whether the rubbish has been dumped by people, or just incidentally blown away, I don’t know. But people need to be more mindful either way.”

With the help of locals at public art workshops Xandi will create an Orca sculpture as an enduring reminder to keep the oceans clean.

Volvo Ocean Race joined forces for beach clean ups!

skeletonsea — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:45:06 +0000

The Volvo Ocean Race’s environmental project Keep the Oceans Clean! has joined forces with global movement Mother Ocean for inspired beach cleans that will sweep the world, starting at one of Miami’s most iconic waterways on Saturday.

Read nore here: http://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/news/6188_Mother-of-all-clean-ups.html

Charles Moore – the Great Pacific plastic trash island

xandi — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:13:10 +0000

Skeleton Sea Exhibition in Pamplona May 2012

skeletonsea — Sun, 06 May 2012 14:43:11 +0000

Location: Batán de Villava y Molino San Andrés.
Dias: Sábados, domingos y festivos.
Fechas: Del 21 de abril al 20 de mayo.
Horario: De 11:00 a 14:00 h y de 17:00 a 20:00 h.
Entrada: Gratuita.

Fran Crowe, Xandi Kreuzeder y João Parrinha hacen surf, un deporte que aúna el conocimiento del mar y la fascinación por su belleza. También son escultores. Es el punto de partida para denunciar con una estética enérgica y vitalista la degradación que sufren aguas marinas y playas por el vertido de residuos.

Skeletonsea muestra el trabajo individual y conjunto de estos tres artistas y surferos, una colección de esculturas elaboradas con residuos flotantes y restos contaminantes recogidos en diferentes mares y playas del mundo.hacen surf, un deporte que aúna el conocimiento del mar y la fascinación por su belleza. También son escultores. Es el punto de partida para denunciar con una estética enérgica y vitalista la degradación que sufren aguas marinas y playas por el vertido de residuos.

This it is: The Tainha of Itajai!

skeletonsea — Sun, 06 May 2012 09:37:56 +0000

This is a tainha, a symbol of traditional fishing in Santa Catarina. But it is bothered by the lack of respect we’ve shown to it’s home, the ocean and estuaries. Therefore, it has grown arms and legs as a result of a mutation, so it can serve as an example and bring an important message to us, of awareness and care for the environment.

After all, everything is interconnected. By maintaining our rivers and oceans clean, we will be guaranteeing our own future.

Beach Clean Up in Miami

skeletonsea — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:12:30 +0000

Mutant Tainha Fish for Itajai

skeletonsea — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:22:00 +0000

See some images of the Mutant Tainha - the installation built by Joao for donating to Itajai – the Brazilian Volvo Ocean Race Stopover city. Lovely work! The Tainha is a threatened local species of fish and he will be carrying a huge net of rubbish out of the sea. The sculpture will be permanently installed in a local Itajaí market place. The rubbish was collected a weeken-end ago by some 200 local residents of Itajai on Atalaia Beach over five different sites. The fiinished Tainha installation is soon to be seen in our news.

Itajai Workshop Impressions

skeletonsea — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:03:10 +0000

Currently Joao is working at the Volvo Ocean Race Stopover in Itajai: Art workshops for school teacher and some impressions of the developing Tainha Fish installation. Find soon more news of Joao in Brazil.

Itsasoko Agurrak – Saludos de la Mar

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:52:19 +0000

On Friday the 13. April, 4pm, at the Torre Madariaga Euskadi in North Spain, near the famous wave of Mundaka, around 25 kids and some parents arrived for a beach clean up. We hiked one of the oldest trading tracks along the river of Mundaka down to the marsh and wetland of the river mouth. In 2 hours we found a lot of plastic and paper trash and some bigger items like a old rusty gas bottle, fishing ropes and plastic barrels. Back at the Torre we selected the garbage and cleaned the things we could use for our art workshop.

On Saturday, April 14th and Sunday April 15th, over 50 kids came with their parents to the art workshop and helped us making very creative flowers for another Skeleton Sea Greetings from the Sea . The installation we named ITSASOKO AGURRAK which is the Basque name for ‘bunch of flowers‘. It will be exhibited in Pamplona together with our main Skeleton Sea exhibition for the next month, starting on April 21st, 2012 and after this show it will remain at the Torre Madariaga, Centro de Biodiversidad Euskadi in Busturia near Mundaka.