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Posted @withregram • @theartnewspaper.official A hugely ambitious mobile public artwork is currently traveling through Africa on its way to Europe and then up to the Arctic Circle in a call for action and a cry for change. On a scale appropriate to the climate and environmental crisis that it is aiming to highlight, The Herds is an expanding throng of life-sized moveable animal sculptures—the term puppet doesn’t do them justice—that is crossing continents on a symbolic flight from climate disaster. It is already stirring up communities and causing mild mayhem in the first batch of the eighteen designated cities that punctuate its four month odyssey.

The starting point was in April in the Congo Basin, where the initial group of creatures— including a giraffe, two zebra, a lioness, wildebeest, a gorilla, a baboon and a chimpanzee—emerged with their human operators from the forest to spend three days in and around Kinshasa. The pack paraded through the crowded city centre, engaging in a number of charged urban encounters, most notably with the local Nsango Mbonda drumming group and a throng of Congolese performers at the city’s landmark Echangeur Tower. From there The Herds progressed up along the Western Coast of Africa via Lagos and Dakar to Marrakech and Casablanca.

In June they will journey through Spain via Madrid and Barcelona to France (with one Italian stopover in Venice). Then it’s on to London and Manchester, followed by Copenhagen and Stockholm. The final destination is Trondheim in the far north of Norway where, on July 30, The Herds will perform an unspecified grand finale event which we are told “will embrace the ancient traditions of the Sami people” during the annual Olavsfest International festival.

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Justin & Mike from our CRM team headed on up to valued client @serpentineuk yesterday to meet with a new contact there. Lucky boys caught the incredible exhibition ‘Thoughts in the Roots’ by @giuseppe_penone whilst there.

The #exhibition encompasses #sculptures, #drawings, #paintings, an #installation, and #photography.