Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways is a project inviting reflection by artists on the anxieties embodied by the rank infrastructural development across India and its uncomfortable coexistence with local ecologies. Now in its third year, the project has invited artists, collectives and other professionals to develop projects that are site-specific and have an inter-disciplinary… Continue reading Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways III February – June 2012
Author: Luis Bravo
Luis Bravo is a Business Management student at Universidad Iberoamericana in Puebla, México. He was an exchange student at Leuphana Universität, doing a 3-months Internship at Cultura21 in the framework of the Leuphana Plus Program, and continues to collaborate with Cultura21.
Good Pitch Europe 2012 – GPEU12
Good Pitch is an innovative model bringing together the skills of documentary filmmakers with NGOs, foundations, social entrepreneurs, brands, governments and media around leading social issues to expand the resources aimed at maximising the impact of social-issue documentary. Good Pitch Europe will be held on 25th of June at the Royal Institution of Great Britain… Continue reading Good Pitch Europe 2012 – GPEU12
Culture|Futures Global Forum on Culture and Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, June 17th 2012
The Forum is organised in cooperation with the Brazilian Ministry of Culture at the occasion of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development: the Rio+20 Summit, which will culminate in Rio de Janeiro June 20th -22nd 2012. The Forum venue will be Galpão da Cidadania slightly north of central Rio, close to the water front,… Continue reading Culture|Futures Global Forum on Culture and Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, June 17th 2012
Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art presents its annual exhibition of work by artists from the mid Hudson Valley. The exhibition will run from June 23 to November 4, 2012 in the museum’s Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery. This year’s exhibition titled Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012 is organized by… Continue reading Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012
Wendy DesChene + Jeff Schmuki: Mosantra
Patricia Watts, ecoartspace founder and west coast curator was recently invited to write a short essay for a gallery exhibition catalogue titled Monsantra published by TNG Gallery in Calgary featuring the work of Canadian artist Wendy DesChene and American artist Jeff Schmuki. The essay is online here. Since 2006 when she curated Hybrid Fields at… Continue reading Wendy DesChene + Jeff Schmuki: Mosantra
Alternative Conference for the Rio Summit
Taking place on June 16th and 17th, 2012 in London, UK. At the central London Universities – SOAS, the Institute of Education (IOE) and University College London (UCL). Organised by the Campaign against Climate Change with the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Department for Development Studies. Opening plenary in IOE, Thornhaugh Street off… Continue reading Alternative Conference for the Rio Summit
Nomads Occupy the Global Village: Left Political Art Timeline, 2001-2012
For the last decades, collaborations between art and ecology have become more popular as an option to try solving environmental issues, as well as a way of social intervention. You can take a look at the work of several environmental artists in this article by G. Roger Denson, cultural critic and essayist, published by the… Continue reading Nomads Occupy the Global Village: Left Political Art Timeline, 2001-2012
Walker Art Center to present Super Nature
Full of artifice and animal appetites, Super Nature will engage the wild, the domestic, and the civilized aspects of human nature to create a radical ecological melodrama. It will premiere at the Walker Art Center October 25-27th 2012. In Super Nature directors Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad will be joined by Bessie award winning composer… Continue reading Walker Art Center to present Super Nature
A Call for Youth to Attend the International Climate Negotiations
SustainUS is accepting applications to go to the United Nations climate negotiations in Doha, Qatar. All youth 18-26 are eligible to apply to attend as a youth delegate in Doha, Qatar from November 26 to December 7, 2012. Before the conference youth train other youth to be adept at understanding international climate policy, lobbying, communicating… Continue reading A Call for Youth to Attend the International Climate Negotiations
Ernest Callenbach’s last words
Classic environmental novelist Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia, passed away on April 16th 2012 at the age of 83. Shortly after his death, this document, which contains his “Epistle to the Ecotopians: Last Words to an America in Decline” was found: Click here to read the full text.
