Bolivian Animated Film “Abuela Grillo” Highlights Water Issues

Abuela Grillo, an adorable – though equally tear-jerking – animated short-film, calls attention to Bolivia’s fraught history with water privatization. The film is a collaboration between Bolivian animators and the Animation Workshop of Denmark. The Abuela Grillo character is based on a myth from the Bolivian lowlands, but the film tells the story of a… Continue reading Bolivian Animated Film “Abuela Grillo” Highlights Water Issues

Bug Cinema USA – An ecological forest art project

Bug Cinema’s work-in-progress is located in the Siuslaw Model Forest, from 25 June to 9 July Bug Cinema is a new ecological forest art commission for the Whale Oil to Whole Foods summer eco-arts festival in Greene County (Hudson Valley), on the edge of the Catskill Mountains, upper New York State. The eco-arts festival consists… Continue reading Bug Cinema USA – An ecological forest art project

Sideways : Artistic laboratory along slow paths

33 projects in open space, a journey of 334 kilometres, 16 walking days, 5 festival weekends, 2 symposia and 1 multimedia donkey! 17 August – 17 September 2012, Belgium Sideways is an itinerant festival for contemporary arts and cultural research. In times of acceleration and hypermobility, this nomadic initiative follows a web of slow paths.… Continue reading Sideways : Artistic laboratory along slow paths

Sense of Planet: The Arts and Ecology at Earth Magnitude

A NIEA Symposium Saturday, 25 August 2012, 9:30–6:30pm The acceleration of climate change, species extinction, and other ecological crises enjoins us to find ways of grasping historical and evolving circumstances at earth magnitude. The Sense of Planet symposium concentrates together an international array of artists, eco-theorists, and scholars to address the issues and activities of… Continue reading Sense of Planet: The Arts and Ecology at Earth Magnitude

Readings in Performance and Ecology

Last May, this new book edited by Theresa J. May and Wendy Arons, which focuses on how theatre, dance and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values, was published. This collection of essays helps leading scholars and practitioners explore the ways that familiar and new works of theatre and dance can… Continue reading Readings in Performance and Ecology

Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways III February – June 2012

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

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

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