April 10-12, 2014 : 40th Anniversary, Annual AAH Conference & Bookfair, Royal College of Art, London Deadline for proposals : November 11th 2013 The discipline of art history has proved itself able to look various crises of culture in the face and open up the discipline to ideological struggles and debates. These debates have involved its… Continue reading Call for Papers : “Where is our ecological art history?
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‘Political Art’ of Istanbul as Politics of the Middle East
Leuphana University (HS 4), Lüneburg (Germany), July 1st 2013 – 18:00 The guest lecture will focus on the formation of the contemporary art field in Istanbul and how a particular category of ‘political art’ emerged from that field. First, Ni l Uzun will present the historical background of the formation of the contemporary art field… Continue reading ‘Political Art’ of Istanbul as Politics of the Middle East
Summer of Soil
June 15 – August 15, 2013 Summer of soil : A Green Exhibition in Järna, Sweden Summer of Soil is a 5-week, multi-disciplinary accelerator program designed to awaken and inspire a collaborative movement to rebuild and maintain living soils. The program will include a series of hands-on soil-related courses, an exhibition of regenerative growing practices… Continue reading Summer of Soil
Exhibition : Intersections
Sunday, 30 June 2013, in Perth Concert Hall’s Threshold artspace,UK Commenting on her new project which features a combination of photography, video and sound installations as well as interactive elements across previously undiscovered art display areas in Perth Concert Hall’s Threshold artspace, Su Grierson said: Using combinations of video, sound and image I create installations… Continue reading Exhibition : Intersections
Cultura21 Nordic: How can culture lead transformations?
In the coming year, Cultura21 Nordic will be working with partners to bring pioneering agents from the Baltic Sea Region together and create a ‘flagship project’ on the issue of culture and sustainability: ‘Baltic Sea Region cooperation with a focus on culture as a part of sustainable development’. In April 2013, Cultura 21 Nordic and… Continue reading Cultura21 Nordic: How can culture lead transformations?
Walking as Art
March 2013, Walking and Mapping, Artists as cartographers, by Karen O’Rourke Contemporary artists beginning with Guy Debord and Richard Long have returned again and again to the walking motif. Debord and his friends tracked the urban flows of Paris; Long trampled a path in the grass and snapped a picture of the result (A Line… Continue reading Walking as Art
Landscapes of the Mind : The Art of Wellbeing conference
Friday 28th June 2013, Landscapes of the Mind : The Art of Wellbeing conference at The Lightbox, Surrey, UK This Conference, organized in the context of the “Happy Museum Project”, will explore the relationships between the appreciation and creation of artworks – and arts projects in general – and mental health and well being. The Conference… Continue reading Landscapes of the Mind : The Art of Wellbeing conference
Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia
Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages Published in April 2013 Edited by Joshua Lockyer and James R. Veteto In order to move global society towards a sustainable “ecotopia,” solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from… Continue reading Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia
Workshop at King’s College
Representing uncertainty, July 2nd 2013, London, UK TippingPoint, in partnership with the King’s Cultural Institute, is going to be holding a series of workshops that brings together academics from King’s College London with artists and other interested parties in the wider community. The aim is to explore particular subjects in depth, subjects which are… Continue reading Workshop at King’s College
Fringe Sustainable Production Award
June 3rd 2013 – A Greener Fringe for Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) Applications are now opened for consideration for the 2013 Fringe Sustainable Production Award, designed to reward sustainable practice in the production of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Productions are invited to engage their audiences with sustainability, take responsibility for their environmental impacts, and think… Continue reading Fringe Sustainable Production Award
