Unberable exhibited in downtown Paris: Thursday December 3rd Galschiots 6 meters high and 5 tons heavy sculpture 'Unbearable' was placed at the main entrance to Cite Universitaire in Paris. The sculpture depicts a polar bear impaled on a giant graph showing the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere from 1700 until today. Watch short video from vernissage. See Info & photos.

"Freedom To Pollute", refugee sculptures and dancing polar bears in the streets of Paris: On the activist side Galschiot presents a lot of sculptural activities in public spaces in Paris. This Saturday and Sunday he presented a six meter high smoking Statue of Liberty called "Freedom To Pollute" at the NGOs climate festival in the Paris neighborhood Montreuil. Galschots copper climate refugee-sculptures could be seen with the sculpture, emphasizing the dilemma between our demand to unbridled consumption and the climate change consequences for people around the globe, for example in the shape of climate-refugees.

Galschiot also brought 10 polar bears (costumes), which walked around the area and handed out leaflets.

See the cool video reportage from the festival and photos from the events.

Polar bears have trouble with the police at COP21: Galschiot had trouble getting into the publicly accessible COP21, when he and his assistant arrived in polar bear costume to meet climate-NGOs. The two polar bears had to go through four police interrogations in pouring rain before the wet and tousled polar bear could go into the center (and even here they were stopped by civilian-clothed security officers). But it didn’t ruin the good mood.
Watch this the 1:18min video about the polar bears’ fight against French Bureaucracy.

Polar Bear Army sightseeing in the streets of Paris and meeting with their impaled colleague: Galschiot has had to change his sculptural outcries due to state of emergency restrictions on top of the terrorist attacks in Paris. Originally he and his 20 activists were to be a part of the great climate demonstrations, but they have been banned by the authorities. Furthermore no more than three people can gather and make for political manifestations (how this stops terrorism, nobody really knows!).

Instead Galschiot and his activists take on 10 polar bear costumes and go sightseeing in Paris as a kind of polar bear army. They will particularly concentrate on the major tourist attractions like the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and the great COP21 climate sculptures around Paris.

 

The polar bear Army hopes that the French police looks through the assembly ban, as it is made for humans – not polar bears. And it would be a little grotesque if they arrested 10 sightseeing polar bears!