Article in the Huffington Post: “Sustainability Has Become a Growing Focus of Artists’ (and Art Schools’) Attention” A recent article in the Huffington Post notices the growing interest in sustainability and eco-art at some US American art schools (such as e.g. the Maryland Institute College of Art). To read the article: click here
Author: Sacha Kagan
Research Associate at the ISCO - Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (ISKO - Institut für Soziologie und Kulturorganisation), Leuphana University Lueneburg, Sacha Kagan founded the International level of Cultura21, Network for Cultures of Sustainability, as well as the International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST). The focus of his research and cultural work lies in the trans-disciplinary field of arts and (un-)sustainability. Doctor in Philosophy (Leuphana University Lueneburg) with a thesis on the subject of culture, the arts and sustainability under the perspective of complexity ; M.A. in Cultural Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam) ; and Graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux (political sciences).
For Cultura21, Sacha is also coordinating the eBooks series, the regular updates on our multi-lingual website, the English section of our webmagazine and the work of our Lueneburg-based interns.
Ecocultures 2012 Conference
The Ecocultures 2012 conference is taking place on April 17th and 18th at the University of Essex (Colchester Campus) in the UK. For the final program and more information, please visit this webpage: http://www.ecocultures.org/2012/04/ecocultures-2012-final-programme/
Isomorphism
ISOMORPHISM is an online art magazine (based in Romania) that publishes on interaction of contemporary art with a wide range of today’s realities. From political philosophies and civil movements to present day nanotechnology and biotechnology implicated in artistic creation the magazine’s subjects include articles, essays, reviews, presentation of ideas, interviews, events and projects. Link: ISOMORPHISM… Continue reading Isomorphism
FLORA URBANA – GREEN ISLAND 2012
Milan Design Week, April 17-22 2012 (Italy) – a project by Claudia Zanfi (director of aMAZElab / Laboratorio del Paesaggio) Garibaldi Train Station, Milan – Opening April 17th at 12 pm The GREEN ISLAND project was created out of the need to bring citizens back to a dimension of greater harmony between the urban fabric… Continue reading FLORA URBANA – GREEN ISLAND 2012
ASEF Report now available: “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”
In 2010, ASEF commissioned research to investigate good practices connecting the arts to initiatives tackling environmental sustainability issues in a number of Asian countries. Titled Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues, the research project aimed to carefully document case studies that can not only provide inspiration for networking and collaboration between Asia… Continue reading ASEF Report now available: “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”
Talk & Opening: In Context:Public.Art.Ecology – Food Edition – I
Friday, 13th April, 2012 – 6:00 pm onwards – New Delhi Khoj Studios , S-17 Khirkee Extension Works on view till 18th April, 2012 – 11:00 am – 7:00pm In Context: Public.Art.Ecology, Food Edition I is an International Residency with art projects and interventions in public spaces exploring the intersection between art and ecology through the… Continue reading Talk & Opening: In Context:Public.Art.Ecology – Food Edition – I
Eco Values Art Exhibition at 2012 Eco Design Fair in Shanghai
The 2012 Shanghai Eco Design Fair will be held on April 14 from 10:00 to 17:00 at the Cool Docks, 515 Zhongshan South Road, Shanghai. An exterior plaza at the Cool Docks will be devoted to giving the public an opportunity to interact with representatives from Shanghai environmental organizations and NGOs and view an art… Continue reading Eco Values Art Exhibition at 2012 Eco Design Fair in Shanghai
Etienne de France – Tales of a Sea Cow
2012, March 30 to June 24 – Parco Arte Vivente, Torino (Italy) Curated by Annick Bureaud – Opening: March 29 at 6.30 pm In a finis terrae like scenery – rarefied, cold and blurring – takes place the story of a scientific team engaged in a field research across the seas of Iceland and Greenland,… Continue reading Etienne de France – Tales of a Sea Cow
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be, curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo, is on display in the Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery at Trinity University, San Antonio, TX (USA) until April 7, 2012. The exhibition features works by thirteen artists exploring human incursion on the landscape. Through a variety of media, these… Continue reading The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
ecoartscotland in Tent at ECA – 6-10 March
Reposted from eco/art/scot/land ecoartscotland will be in residence in the Tent space at Edinburgh College of Art, during the week 6-10 March 2012. Art, Space & Nature students and staff have worked with ecoartscotland to develop a programme of discussions and events during the week:
