Plastik, a bi-lingual (French-English) online journal on art & science published at Institut Acte (CNRS and Université Paris 1 Sorbonne), is announcing the following open call for articles for its upcoming 4th issue on “Art and biodiversity: sustainable art?” (deadline: June 15, 2013 – the call is also available in French language here): “Interest in ecology… Continue reading Art and biodiversity: sustainable art ?
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Mierle Laderman Ukeles at Grazer Kunstverein
Maintenance Art Works 1969–1980 – On show until May 19th 2013 This is the very first comprehensive European solo exhibition of the artist’s earlier work. Originally organized in 1998 by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts gallery in New York, the exhibition presents a body of work spanning over a decade of significant production. In 1969, following… Continue reading Mierle Laderman Ukeles at Grazer Kunstverein
The Fargo Project: Jackie Brookner at TEDxFargo City 2.0
For humans to survive, ecological artist Jackie Brookner says it is not enough to change the ways we fuel, feed, entertain and shelter ourselves. Something much more basic has to happen. We need to mainstream a different understanding of who we are, as individuals and as a species. She calls this “the being of human,”… Continue reading The Fargo Project: Jackie Brookner at TEDxFargo City 2.0
International Conference: SUSTAINABILITY AND CULTURE / Sustainable Cultural Management
Organized by the Goethe Institut Thessaloniki, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Greece and the European theatre network Mitos21, this International Conference will take place on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th April 2013 in Thessaloniki, Greece, at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall (“Maurice Saltiel” conference room). The conference will discuss “innovative interventions implemented in recent years in the… Continue reading International Conference: SUSTAINABILITY AND CULTURE / Sustainable Cultural Management
Culture and Sustainable Development in the Baltic Sea Region – a seminar at the Nordic Council of Ministers
Venue: Nordic Council of Ministers, Ved Straden 18, 1061 Copenhagen, Denmark – Date: April 29th 2013 The event is organized in cooperation between the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Ministries of Culture in Schleswig-Holstein and Poland. In connection with this seminar, the report “Culture and Sustainability in the Baltic Sea Region – 8 findings,… Continue reading Culture and Sustainable Development in the Baltic Sea Region – a seminar at the Nordic Council of Ministers
Green Mobility Guide for the Performing Arts
Research dossier available in 5 languages Commissioned by On The Move to creative industries environmental experts Julie’s Bicycle, the Green Mobility Guide offers practical recommendations for professionals across the performing arts, case studies and resources, including the Julie’s Bicycle “IG tool” for tracking carbon emissions while on tour. Available since 2011 in English language, and… Continue reading Green Mobility Guide for the Performing Arts
Call for participation in survey on soil and art
If you have used earth materially or symbolically in your creative practice, or in some way addressed the value, function, or meaning of soil in your art, you are cordially invited to take part in an online survey about soil and art. “Although the arts play a critical role in sustainability discourses, the actual opinions, knowledge and practices… Continue reading Call for participation in survey on soil and art
Project seeks to map and reduce ocean noise pollution
In an effort to reduce the undocumented and unlimited rising of oceanic noise pollution, the US government is completing the first phase of a project by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which seeks to document human-made noises in the ocean and transform the results into the world’s first oceanic sound maps. The first results… Continue reading Project seeks to map and reduce ocean noise pollution
Eco-Aesthetics: Contemporary Arts and the Politics of Ecology
Saturday, 2 March, 2013, 2-7pm Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL The first issue of Third text, a bimonthly appearing journal on art in the global context, in 2013 is a special issue focusing on Contemporary Arts and the Politics of Ecology and is accompanied by the conference on the same topic in London. The event… Continue reading Eco-Aesthetics: Contemporary Arts and the Politics of Ecology
Call for Papers – Climate Change, Sustainability and an Ethics of an Open Future
Societas Ethica, the European Society for Research in Ethics, in cooperation with the ESF (European Science Foundation) network A Right to a Green Future is calling for papers for their Annual Conference, this year held in Soesterberg, Netherlands on August 22-25, 2013. It will be the 50th Societas Ethica conference.
