"Ephemeral Art In Burns Bog" UNESCO World Heritage Site Status For Burns Bog

A. Traviss Corry, PR Strategist / Campaign Director & UNESCO (U.N.) Communications Coordinator, 2008-10

Performance & Ephemeral Art. Documentary Photography, Public Relations Campaign, Government Lobbying & Advocacy.

Art Event: 16.08.2009
PR Campaign: 2008 to 2010

Support :
• Earth Artists
Mulitple Members of Parlaiment

Location:
• Burns Bog, Delta, BC, Canada.

The strategy behind this campaign was to start from a place of fine art, allowing the artists and photographers themselves to make works expressive of place. The powerful and engaging images created from this collaborative work of many artists provided public relations and photographic material to multiple organizations, and political parties, in support of the campaign.

This effort culminated with lobbying efforts that lead to mass media coverage, the support of Members Of Parliament, official U.N. nomination, and an announcement in the Canadian House Of Commons.

Burns Bog is the largest remaining domed peat bog in the Western Hemisphere. The bog's unique acidic, alien-seeming landscape is populated by rare flora and fauna, arctic plants, and carpeted by great expanses of sphagnum mosses, and other captivatingly rare plants and animals.

“Ephemeral Art like this demonstrates how we're all part of nature, and contributes to our awareness of our connection to nature. It also gives us a chance to get muddy and wet and not be afraid of nature. The Bog, being in the middle of Vancouver in an urban environment is just so rare to have. It’s like finding your Walden, and everyone needs that. ”