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

“Pumping” at Adamski Gallery in Berlin

Solo exhibition by Joel Tauber – from March 6 to April 28 Joel Tauber is Assistant Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. His installation is “looking at a period that seems remarkably similar to our own – the end of the 19th century in America”. The artist says about his project: During my research… Continue reading “Pumping” at Adamski Gallery in Berlin

Between art and environment: Case studies from Thailand, Malaysia and India

The case studies are part of an Asia-Europe Foundation commissioned research project entitled “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”. Thailand: In Doi Saket, an artists’ residency programme brings together local communities and artists to reflect on diverse facets of everyday life to gain a more open perspective about their positions in the… Continue reading Between art and environment: Case studies from Thailand, Malaysia and India

Two essays published at the Heinrich Boell Foundation

In parallel to the “Radius of Art” conference, the Heinrich Boell Foundation published 2 essays dealing with art and cultural transformations toward sustainability. Both essays can be obtained (in print versions) from the foundation and (in electronic PDF versions) from the website of the foundation: – Sacha Kagan. Toward Global (Environ)Mental Change: Transformative Art and… Continue reading Two essays published at the Heinrich Boell Foundation

Open Call: Camp Pixelache 2012, 11-13 May, Helsinki

Pixelache Helsinki is a transdisciplinary platform for experimental art, design, research and activism. They are organising this year a more compact edition of their annual festival, called ‘Camp Pixelache’ during on 11-13 May 2012, based on previous Camp Pixelache experiments. The main venue for the event is Arbis, the Swedish-language adult education centre located close… Continue reading Open Call: Camp Pixelache 2012, 11-13 May, Helsinki