Intergovernmental Panel on Capitalism (2015)

Edited IPCC Reports, website, video, pdfs.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Capitalism (IPC) recognizes the problem of adequately addressing climate change as the problem of addressing deregulated capitalism. The IPC is a speculative organization that appears in the image of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the leading international body for the assessment of climate change as founded by the United Nations in 1988. We reframe their mission through an ambitious attempt to edit all of their online material, replacing every instance of the phrase "climate change" with the word “capitalism." These edits are made in the pdfs of the IPCC reports and in all web and video content, providing a glimpse of a world where capitalism itself is called into question.  


Exhibition view, Pioneer Works, New York. ‘Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, 2015, Intergovernmental Panel on Capitalism.’ Image: David Huerta.

THE IPC REPORTS

The edited pdf versions of the IPC reports can be downloaded on the IPC site for printing.


IPC Reports. ‘Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, 2015, Intergovernmental Panel on Capitalism.’ 


Exhibition view, Pioneer Works, New York. ‘Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, 2015, Intergovernmental Panel on Capitalism.’ Image: David Huerta.


These reports are now filled with valuable insights on issues of human health, security, and environment:

Screenshot of excerpts from IPC Reports. ‘Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, 2015, Intergovernmental Panel on Capitalism.’












THE IPC MEDIA CHANNEL

The entire YouTube channel of the IPCC was editing using Sam Lavigne's video grep tool and is available on the IPC YouTube channel. In each video, when the speaker's voice says "climate change" it is cut and replaced with a recording of the word "captialism" taken from a narrated audiobook of Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.


A super cut of the most insightful excerpts from the new video material. ‘Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, 2015, Intergovernmental Panel on Capitalism.’


PROJECT BACKGROUND

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an organization tasked with assessing and synthesizing (but not producing) research around climate change. Every few years they publish a series of comprehensive reports detailing the current state of climate change research and knowledge. In 2007, the Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to Al Gore and the IPCC for “their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."


CREDITS

Made in collaboration with Sam Lavigne.