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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Mariam Amini

Artist punches holes in UN climate report six hours a day for Dutch installation

A man sitting at a desk with piles of multicoloured paper on the ground beneath.
‘We are at a crucial turning point in history,’ says Hovinga, ‘where the consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly evident.’ Photograph: Jur Ruberti

Every day for the last two weeks, Johannes-Harm Hovinga has sat at a raised table in Museum Arnhem, using a two-hole page puncher to systematically perforate the 7,705-page sixth assessment report produced by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

He has printed it out on coloured paper and the result is a vibrant heap piling up at the artist’s feet.

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