MILK HEAT 2009

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Installation – radiator, water pipe/ Heizkörper, Wasserleitung

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Milk Heat lets visitors experience the fresh milk's heat through a conventional radiator placed outside the stable of an organic farm in Wanas called Wanas Gods AB. The barn is state of the art and largely innovative. The heat from the milk is being transfered cleverly to the buildings central heating system.

 

Tue Greenfort attempts to visualize the general impact animal farming has on environment - whether organic or not. He questions if todays intensified dairy productionts can be considered ecologically sustainablye. food sources Ssince cows' methane has a negative

impact on the climate.

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The permanent installation is surplied with the following caption:

Milk Heat Livestock are responsible for 18% of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.

'Livestock's Long Shadow', from FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United

Nations), Rome, 2006.

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Installation view: Wanås 2009: Footprints, The Wanås Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden

Photo by Anders Norrsell

Courtesy: Wanås Foundation

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