Jay Critchley as Provocateur

An Evening with artist Jay Critchley
Doors open at 6 PM with Artist talk at 7 PM  followed by discussion.

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Jay is a Provincetown-based conceptual and multi-media artist and activist whose work has traversed the globe, showing across the US and in Argentina, Japan, England, Spain, France, Holland, Germany and Columbia. He founded the controversial patriotic Old Glory Condom Corporation and was recently featured on LOGO TV and BBC/UK. His recent NYC show was reviewed in the New York Times, The New Yorker and the Village Voice. His first museum survey was held at the Provincetown Art Association/Museum, and will travel to Florida Atlantic University in 2016. The 2015 Provincetown International Film Festival featured his videos, including the HBO award-winning “Toilet Treatments”. 

He has taught at the Museum School at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and has had artist residencies at: Harvard University; AS220, Rhode Island; Harvestworks, NYC; Williams College, MA; Real Art Ways, Hartford; Milepost 5, Portland, OR, Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Andalucia, Spain, and CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France. 

He founded the Provincetown Community Compact, which runs artist residencies, and the Swim for Life AIDS/women’s health benefit, which has raised $4M and is scheduled for September 12, 2015. 

www.jaycritchley.com

Don't look away! exhibit

JAY CRITCHLEY AT MOBIUS!

Dialoguers

TEN FOOT SEA LEVEL RISE??!!!

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-point-of-no-return-climate-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805

EXTINCTION IS A REALITY

Neanderthal woman reconstructed by National Geographic scientists using DNA info from bones.

PRESS RELEASE FOR UPCOMING ART EXHIBITION

 An exhibition of art will be presented at Mobius, 55 Norfolk Street, Central Square, Cambridge entitled  DON’T LOOK AWAY! (www.mobius.org).The exhibit will run from September 12 through September 20 with gallery hours from 12-5 PM on weekends and by appointment. There will be an opening reception on September 12 from 6-9 PM.

A special event on Saturday, September 19 will be held from 6- 9PM with renowned public artist and provocateur Jay Critchley. He will present and discuss environmental art from his recent retrospective at the Provincetown Museum of Art.

The DON’T LOOK AWAY! exhibit is the outgrowth of a process between artists and environmentalists examining their own system of thought. Over several months, they have practiced an experimental form of dialogue that attempted to address questions arising from the overwhelm of climate disruption. Artists Margaret Bellafiore, Lydia Eccles, Milan Kohout, Claire Lau and Judy Werlin, with support from writers Steve Wineman and John Pitkin, have responded with developing a variety of work including writing, sculpture, painting, video and performance. They have struggled with issues of hope and despair, social activism, fracking, and the larger underlying dynamics of what makes a healthy society. Much of the work will be interactive as the artists are interested in having viewers participate by adding to the work.

A closing reception will be held on Sunday, September 20 from 12-5 PM. A public dialogue will be held. Activists who are protesting the expansion of the Spectra gas pipeline in Weymouth, West Roxbury and Dedham will participate in this collective reflection.

A blog at http://margaretmobius.blogspot.com posts an ongoing record of their struggle.

HEALTH RISK from gas compressor by Dr. Curt Nordgaard

The North Weymouth compressor station: An unacceptable health risk

Prepared by Curtis Nordgaard, MD Msc

Resident Pediatrician, Boston Children's Hospital / Boston Medical Center

What health conditions are associated with compressor station emissions?

-Particulate matter 1,2: Asthma, heart attacks, diabetes

-Benzene 3 : Leukemia, bone marrow suppression

-Formaldehyde 4,5: Asthma, several types of cancer

-Nitrogen oxide 6 Produces hazardous ground level ozone, an asthma trigger associated with respiratory tract irritation and infection

Do compressor stations emit dangerous levels of these pollutants?

-Benzene levels have been measured near compressor stations that far exceed cancer-causing

Thresholds. Formaldehyde levels can exceed cancer-causing thresholds up to at least a half mile away from compressor stations8

Do residents living near compressor stations notice compressor emissions?

-Residents living near compressor stations report severe headaches, sinus problems, and throat

irritation more often than residents living further away.

Would additional emissions make a difference?

-Six industries in the Fore River Basin accounted for 84 periods of federal pollution standard violations in the past 3 years, in addition to their baseline operating pollution. -Significant background emissions increase the likelihood that additional emissions will reach toxic or carcinogenic levels

Why haven't we heard more about compressors and health risks before?

-Many compressor stations are built in rural areas near much smaller populations, where fewer

people are exposed to the pollutants and the health risks are therefore lower.

What additional health risks will we accept in our communities so that Spectra can build a

compressor station?

-A child with leukemia?

-A parent or sibling with a heart attack?

-A neighbor in the Emergency Department with an asthma attack?

If we value the health of our communities, our families, and our children, then we must

acknowledge that increased risks of asthma, heart attacks, and cancer are unacceptable.

1 http://epa.gov/ncer/science/pm/

2 Solimini et al. BMC Public Health 2015 15:70.

3 http://www.epa.gov/IRIS/subst/0276.htm

4 Dannemiller et al. Indoor Air 2013 23(4):285.

5 http://www.epa.gov/IRIS/subst/0419.htm

6 http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search2/f?./temp/~pm6jsl:1

7 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. (2010). Barnett Shale Formation Air Monitoring Projects.

8 Macey et al. Environmental Health 2014, 13:82

9 Steinzor et al. New Solutions 2013, 23:55

10 www.echo.epa.gov