Sharjah Art Biennial

Hello, I'm Amber and you're listening to bbclearningenglish.com.
　　In Entertainment today, we visit the largest art event in the Arab world - the
　　Sharjah Art Biennial in the United Arab Emirates. (A biennial is an event that
　　happens every 2 years.)
　　Artists from all over the world have come to the Emirates to create new work
　　especially for this event, and the theme this year is a big, important issue - the
　　environment. The Sharjah Art Biennial is focussing on how art can create a
　　better understanding of our relationship with nature and on the challenges the
　　world is facing due to excessive urban development and pollution. Now the
　　United Arab Emirates is one of the most rapidly developing man-made
　　environments on the planet – think of the gleaming rows of newly-built hotels
　　and skyscrapers in the city of Dubai, for example. So how does an art event
　　with an ecological theme fit in?
　　BBC reporter Tim Marlow went to investigate. He describes a piece of work
　　which certainly makes you think about the pollution from car exhausts! As you
　　listen, try to image what the art work looks like.
　　Tim Marlow
　　'It sounds, I'm sure, as if I'm standing in a car park! But, in fact, this is an art work. It's by
　　the German-born, London-based artist, Gustav Metzger, and it was a proposal called
　　'Stockholm, June 1972' and it was never realised until now. And it involves 120 cars, each
　　with their exhaust pipes hosed up into a central construction which is right in front of me -
　　which is covered in polythene - and all the pollution, all the exhaust fumes are mingling
　　inside. I can see a certain amount of condensation, I can see a certain amount of darkness, and
　　this, I suppose, is the emblematic piece for the 8  Sharjah Biennial, whose themes, you'll be
　　amazed to discover, are ecology and the politics of change.'
　　Amber:  Can you picture the piece in your mind? There are 120 cars, each with their
　　exhaust pipes 'hosed up', joined together by hoses or pipes, into 'a central
　　construction', and all the pollution, all the exhaust fumes, are 'mingling' (or
　　mixing) as they collect inside.
　　Tim calls it 'the emblematic' piece for the exhibition – it's symbolic, it
　　suggests the themes of the whole exhibition.
　　Listen again and try to catch the two compound words Tim uses to describe the
　　artist who created the piece.