Reposted from the CSPA website Apply: UNM IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2011 FALL PROGRAM. Land Arts of the American West is an ongoing experiment in an interdisciplinary model for an Arts pedagogy based in place. The Land Arts program provides students with direct, physical engagement with a full range of human interventions in the… Continue reading Land Arts of the American West
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.
JALAN JATI (Teak Road) Or the Secret Lives of Forest Products
A Contemporary Art & Ecology Exhibition on Tropical Forests, Wood & Humans, Using DNA Timber Tracking Technology By the Migrant Ecologies Project, Singapore The project traces the “memories” of a teak bed purchased in 21 century Singapore back to the site in the region from which the teak tree originated with the help of DNA… Continue reading JALAN JATI (Teak Road) Or the Secret Lives of Forest Products
Chiang Mai Now!
Exhibition presenting Chiang Mai through visions of contemporary cultures April 7th – June 19th, 2011 – 9th Floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand Chiang Mai Now! is the exhibition presenting Chiang Mai through contemporary visions. Curated by Angkrit Ajchariyasophon, the exhibition puts forward unique perspectives of 12 artists and contemporary cultural activists. Chiang Mai… Continue reading Chiang Mai Now!
New artist call “Cool Stories For When The Planet Gets Hot III” launched
ARTPORT making waves is an international art project which raises awareness of current social and political issues worldwide through theme-oriented exhibitions, residency programs and artists collaborations, proudly presents the third edition of its video contest “Cool Stories For When The Planet Gets Hot” on global warming. After two successful editions, for the third edition ARTPORT… Continue reading New artist call “Cool Stories For When The Planet Gets Hot III” launched
Local and Regional Governments towards RIO+20
A briefing on preparations for the Rio +20 Summit is available from the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), focusing on culture as key element of sustainability: “We believe that the paradigm of sustainable development needs a cultural pillar, and its implementation deserves cultural content. The Agenda 21 for culture (2004), the Policy Statement of… Continue reading Local and Regional Governments towards RIO+20
Two environmental philosophy blogs
The following two environmental philosopher’s blogs provide regular posts with interesting views and analyses on themes such as emergence, ecocriticism, ecocinema and others: Timothy Morton ‘s blog (the author of Ecology without Nature): http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/ Adrian J Ivakhiv’s blog “immanence – thinking the form, flesh & flow of the world: ecoculture, geophilosophy, mediapolitics”: http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/
Values of Environmental Writing
The Values of Environmental Writing Research Network raises levels of critical academic exchange and public debate about the possible relations between reading habits and preferences, levels of environmental literacy, and wider patterns of pro-environment behavioural and lifestyle change. Network activities take place between September 2010 and June 2011, centring on three ‘Conversations on Environmental Change’… Continue reading Values of Environmental Writing
Arts & Democracy audio transcript on the role of Culture in Revolutionary Times
Reposted from freeDimensional Arts & Democracy Project’s most recent nation-wide conference call was focused on recent events in Egypt and the extraordinary pro-democracy movements sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East. The call highlighted how artists, art spaces and cultural organizers in the region and in the U.S. are participating or responding, and how… Continue reading Arts & Democracy audio transcript on the role of Culture in Revolutionary Times
Hydromemories: Call for examples of artists working with water
Reposted from eco/art/scot/land Hydromemories is seeking to build up an archive of artists working with water. The site already contains a number of interesting examples, to which one might add: Betsy Damon, Keepers of the Waters, Liz Ogilvie’s Bodies of Water amongst other works, Anne Bevan’s Source amongst other works, Common Ground’s Confluence and other… Continue reading Hydromemories: Call for examples of artists working with water
4X4 Dance Body And The Environment
18th – 29th April 2010 With Guest Artists: Jennifer Monson, Simon Whitehead and Angus Balbernie 4×4 is an eleven-day event on the theme of dance, body and the environment for dance or movement artists, choreographers and artists working in related art-forms. “Somewhere in the midst of ‘sustainability’ lies an inspiring vision of transformation. As movement… Continue reading 4X4 Dance Body And The Environment
