LTAP

Long-term art projects LTAP

Stewards of long-term art projects started collaborating in 2022 in an effort to ensure not only the continuation of their projects but to let them help to secure the continuation of civilisation itself and foster the reduction of existential and catastrophic risks. The collaboration grew out of discussions in June 2022 about the question "What can art do for the future?"

The LTAP include so far

• 7000 Eichen (7000 oaks), Kassel, Germany
• ‘Future Library’, Oslo, Norway
• Letters of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • A letter is added to a poem in the cobblestones every Saturday. For as long as there are Saturdays. A monument for the future.
  • Started 2 June 2012, every letter so far has been hewn into a stone and placed on time. Letters for the Saturdays since the beginning of the millennium had been placed retrospectively. Nine poets so far contributed to the ever-extending poem.
  • More than a thousand people inscribed something into the side of these stones. They made this possible and generated money for good causes. Every week more people have an interest to keep this going.
• Longplayer, London, UK
  • Longplayer is a musical composition that plays continuously without repetition for 1000 years, and is most vitally a space for the imagination, inspiring conversations, activities and creative responses.
  • Longplayer champions imaginative long-term thinking, connecting us to futures beyond our lifetimes, and working towards the continuity of the music as both a symbol of survival and the possibility of being here at all.
• ORGAN2/ASLSP (as slow as possible), Halberstadt, Germany
• Zeitpyramide (time pyramid), Wemding, Germany
• more will likely join

Criteria

• Art work incorporating an explicit duty to be continued
• Set up to be performed, developed, built or actively maintained for 100+ years
• Requiring continued involvement of successive generations of human stewards
• Open and accessible, not for profit, for public benefit, preferably engaging members of the public in some way
• Well established (running for 5+ years)