New York The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) aims at designing public art installations that have an additional benefit of large scale clean energy generation. Each sculpture can continuously distribute clean energy into the electrical grid and thus potentially provide power to thousands of homes. In 2012 the Land Art Generator Initiative holds a design… Continue reading Land Art Generator Initiative design competition
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ECOPSYCHOLOGY & NATURAL CHANGE COURSES in 2012
Scotland The purpose of the ecoSelf project is for people to find a sense of ecological identity and based on that to live in ecological balance. In order to find this ecological identity, people have to face the fact that humankind is part of the Earth’s wider ecology, thus stands in constant interdependence with nature.… Continue reading ECOPSYCHOLOGY & NATURAL CHANGE COURSES in 2012
Call for proposals: Kunstbroedplaats 2012 – DRIFT
Marknesse, the Netherlands May to December 2012 The former Hydrodynamic Laboratory Waterloopbos hosts in 2012 DRIFT, a contemporary visual art project dealing with transformation. It is the fourth art in nature project of Rerun Productions Foundation, that is a non-profit organization that puts its focus to cultural and social issues in publications and art projects.
Conference: Environmental Utterance
UK September 1st – 2nd, 2012 On the 1st and 2nd of September 2012 the University College Falmouth inc. Darlington College of Arts invites to the conference Environmental Utterance. Highly contextual practices are used in every academic disciplines, exploring ways of articulating specific environments, spaces or places. This conference examines a specific problematic that attends the dissemination of… Continue reading Conference: Environmental Utterance
The Home and the World – On Being at Home
South Devon 19th to 21st of June 2012 From the 19th to the 21st of June 2012 a creative summit for artists and other thinkers will take place at Dartington Hall Estate in south Devon/England. The summit will focus on the question if the alienation of humankind from the natural world has effected his condition… Continue reading The Home and the World – On Being at Home
Aardwerk: PDC course in 2012
Netherlands (Special Municipality of Sint Eustatius) Aardwerk: PDC course in 2012 For the time from the 1st of May to the 21st of May 2012, Aardwerk offers an international PDC course in a remote place, so that participants are able to see their environment in a new way. Instead of offering ready-made solutions, the course… Continue reading Aardwerk: PDC course in 2012
Call for Papers: Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America
Calgary, Alberta, Canada October 10-13, 2012 Building on the success of Under Western Skies: Climate, Culture, and Change in Western North America in October 2010, Under Western Skies 2 welcomes academics from across the disciplines as well as members of artistic and activist communities, non- and for-profit organizations, government, labour, and NGOs to address the… Continue reading Call for Papers: Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America
Call for Papers: Affective Landscapes
May 25th – 26th 2012 Derby, UK This conference seeks exciting disciplinary and transdisciplinary proposals from scholars working in fields such as cultural studies, literary studies, cultural politics/history, creative writing, film and media studies, Area Studies, photography, fine art, interested in examining the different ways in which human beings respond and relate to,… Continue reading Call for Papers: Affective Landscapes
Artists & Environmental Change: The Elusive Power of Contemporary Art
Too Shallow for Diving: the 21st Century Is Treading Water The “Land“ artists in the 1970s as well as artists like Joseph Beuys and Agnes Denes in the 1980s paved the way for the ecological artists today and for art to act as an agent for social change. Today environmental art includes various approaches and… Continue reading Artists & Environmental Change: The Elusive Power of Contemporary Art
U-N-F-O-L-D in New York
New York 30 September – 15 December 2011 The Exhibition U-N-F-O-L-D exhibition continues until 15 December in New York City at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design. It shows the work of twenty-five artists who took part in Cape Farewell expeditions 2007 and 2008 to the High… Continue reading U-N-F-O-L-D in New York
