Clip from björk's next musical movie, Abundancemade its Climate Week debut on Friday, according to Deadline. The film shows the artist's performance in Lisbon last year in its final stage Abundance A world tour, supporting her activism in combating the climate crisis. Details about The film's release is imminent.
In a statement, almost a poem, that Björk provided to Deadline, she called the climate crisis an emergency and called the Paris climate agreement a “modern utopia.” “Let's imagine a world where nature and technology cooperate and make a song about it, a musical model, and then move on to it,” she said. “Let's write music for our destination. In myths around the world, after disaster strikes, one catches the soul with a flute and starts over. … Our past is in a loop, stop it. Let's be intentional about the light. Imagine the future. Be in it.”
Rolling Stone review Abundance A New York tour described how a video of Greta Thunberg, then 16, was played during the set. “It was a poignant passing of the torch from artist to activist, putting the data-storm complexity of what came before into stark, simple and appropriately chilling perspective,” the review said.
The artist has long thrown her support toward environmental causes. In 2015, she criticized the “backwards” running Iceland at the time, who were looking to take advantage of the country's natural resources. Last year, she raised awareness about how the country's fish farms pollute Iceland's water supply with harmful and mutated fish. She believed the damage could be reversed, so she released a special single, a poppy duet with Rosalía called “Ural”, to raise money to lobby against fish farms.
“One of the reasons we're doing this campaign is because we can actually change this,” Bjork said. Rolling Stone at that time. We asked all the environmental scientists and lawyers, and the damage can still be reversed. It's important in all the environmental news you read: There may be a happy ending.
