CDC's Global Health Odyssey Museum
The CDC's Global Health Odyssey Museum invites you to join the artists' talks/tours for the new exhibit, Consequential Matters:
Thursday, July 9, 12:30-1:30. Mark Wentzel, Carl DiSalvo, and Jonathan Lukens
Tuesday, July 21, 12:30-1:30 Peter Essick
Location: Global Health Odyssey Museum, Tom Harkin Global Communications Center, Roybal Campus. (Directions)
Space is limited to 20 people per tour. Reservations required, and Non-CDC participants welcomed. To register, please contact Alexander Rogers at clx2@cdc.gov or (404) 639-0516. Entrance is free, parking is on campus or nearby. All entrants must have photo ID with them. Cars without a military or HHS decal will be subject to search, but the wait is not long.
On view in the Global Health Odyssey Museum until September 11, 2009, Consequential Matters is an investigation by four Atlanta-based artists of the consequences of unbanization, technology, consumption, indulgence and globablization.
Mark Wentzel: XLounge x 3
XLounge x 3 is a series of cleverly-adapted Eames Lounge Chairs and Ottomans responding to the apparent consequences of the over-consumption of goods and materials of recent years. Designed in 1956 by the legendary American designers Charles and Ray Eames with mass production in mind, this iconic furniture has come to typify a particular standard for stylish and enduring design products. Artist Mark Wentzel invokes a more universal application in XLounge, alluding to topics of global obesity and consumption, and the potential cooperation among artists, designers, scientists and manufacturers to address such issues.
Carl DiSalvo and Jonathan Lukens: Smog is Democratic
Smog is Democratic explores particulate matter through the medium of visualization. As we inhabit and wear away at the city, we produce dust and debris, and as plants attempt to reproduce, they release pollen. These and other processes create particulate matter, a residue of life. An investigation of particulate matter touches multiple concerns: pollution, the relationship between urban living and hygiene, the tension between scientific and artistic representations of information, and the desire to produce measurement techniques that gauge the threat of the unseen. This installation is interpretive and expressive, with the goal of considering how the sources and measurements of particulate matter might be rendered in order to generate reflection, discussion, and debate.
Peter Essick: High-Tech Trash
For a January 2008 National Geographic article about the disposal of scrap electronics, Atlanta-based photojournalist Peter Essick traveled to Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States. The global trade in “e-waste”—computers, cell-phones, and hard drives, to name a few—has developed exponentially over the past 20 years with resulting environmental and social concerns. This documentary essay bears witness to workers in developing countries who expose themselves to health risks as they pull apart monitors or circuit boards to extract copper, gold, silver or lead. Essick also chronicles more environmentally-responsible recycling programs in Europe, and questions some of our efforts here in the United States.
Consequential Matters is sponsored by the Global Health Odyssey Museum, Division of Creative Services, National Center for Health Marketing, Coordinating Center for Health Information and Service, and the Office of Sustainability in honor of the Go Green, Get Healthy Initiative.
For more information about the exhibition, guided tours, or the Global Health Odyssey Museum, please see http://www.cdc.gov/museum or contact Judy M. Gantt at jgantt@cdc.gov