Yesterday’s post mentioned in passing an Arts Council project that typifies the standards we’ve come to expect from publicly funded art. Jarvis Cocker, the country’s foremost socialist pop musician, was sent to the Arctic for “inspiration” and to raise planetary consciousness, along with another two dozen artistic luminaries:

The ecological insights gleaned by Mr Cocker?

Here’s the contribution by Beatboxer Shlomo, who “dedicates his beats to the cause.”

Mr Shlomo’s deep, deep insights into climatology and life can be read here. They include,

And,

The expedition organisers explain the artistic riches to be tapped and why the creative excursion is so worth your money:

Such was the level of inspiration, some of the assembled artists began to work their creative magic immediately.

We must heal the planet with drawings, people. It’s a matter of urgency. For readers of a technical inclination, these ‘automated’ drawings involved suspending a felt-tip pen from the underside of a chair, resulting in random scribble on numerous sheets of paper positioned underneath. This feat was “REALLY exciting” as it “explored movement, time, place and permanence.” The radical innovation also freed the artist to leave the dangling pen and do something more interesting. According to her two brief blog entries, the sum total of her commentary, Ms Rowledge spent much of this liberated time struggling with Greenlandic place names and making sure her fellow passengers knew how “overwhelmed” she was.