Call for Papers – PhD Student Research Award

Deadline extended: Feb. 15th 2013! The Research Network Sociology of the Arts, that is an integrated part of the European Sociological Association (ESA) announces a bi-annual PhD-Student Research Award to recognize outstanding unpublished papers by PhD-Students. The winner of this year´s award will receive 500 € and will present his/her paper at a section during… Continue reading Call for Papers – PhD Student Research Award

Art and Awareness – Uranium Film Festival in Berlin

After taking place twice in Brazil, the International Uranium Film Festival came to Berlin in October 2012. The highlight of the festival was the screening of four movies about the nuclear disaster of Goiânia, 1987, one of them Cesium 137: The Nightmare of Goiânia (1990), a movie by already deceased Roberto Pires which had already… Continue reading Art and Awareness – Uranium Film Festival in Berlin

Call for Papers – Crisis, Critique and Change

Deadline extended: Feb. 15th 2013! The European Sociological Association (ESA) is calling for papers for their 11th conference, taking place in Turin, Italy from the 28-31 August 2013. The topic of the conference is “Crisis, Critique and Change“. There are multiple calls by all the different Research Network and Research Streams, ranging from Environment and… Continue reading Call for Papers – Crisis, Critique and Change

Techno-Ecologies – Acoustic Space #11

The Riga Centre for New Media Culture (RIXC) has published the 11th volume of Acoustic Space: Techno-Ecologies edited by Rasa Smite, Eric Kluitenberg and Raitis Smits The publication takes a different perspective on the value of the relationship between humans, the environment and technology: We can no longer consider technology as the alienating “other”. The… Continue reading Techno-Ecologies – Acoustic Space #11

Competition to Design a Sustainable Theatre now open

Could You Design a Sustainable Theatre? World Stage Design 2013 is a celebration of International performance design from the world of theatre, opera and dance. The event will take place in Cardiff, UK in September 2013, hosted by the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and includes an exhibition as well as public performances… Continue reading Competition to Design a Sustainable Theatre now open

Nigerian theatre mixes oil and climate, on the ground

Wallace Heim writes: “The Nigerian playwright and academic Greg Mbajiorgu got in touch with us after reading Robert Butler’s blogs on Ashdenizen on the difficulties of writing plays about climate change. Greg sent us his play, Wake Up Everyone, which has a preface quoting from this blog. Wake Up Everyone began as a commission by… Continue reading Nigerian theatre mixes oil and climate, on the ground

A Climate Change in the Art World?

An interesting article on www.artnews.com, written by Robin Cembalast, gives insight about the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the art community in New York and shows that Sandy could have been the wake-up call for the community to realize that action against climate change is required on their part. Barry Bergdoll, MoMA’s Chief Curator of… Continue reading A Climate Change in the Art World?

Art installation (removal) leads to controversy at Wyoming University

British environmental artist Chris Drury´s art installation Carbon Sink: What Goes Around Comes Around created back in July 2011 on the Wyoming university campus, was originally intended to inspire a conversation about a prevalent environmental problem in the region. Global warming has, so scientists say, led to less pine beetles dying off by below zero… Continue reading Art installation (removal) leads to controversy at Wyoming University

Call for applications for International Artists’ Residency: In Context: public.art.ecology, FOOD EDITION-II

Deadline: 4 JANUARY, 2013 – Online applications only Khoj’s international residency: In Context: public.art.ecology focuses on exploring ecological themes in and around public spaces in Delhi and is being carried forth into its fourth year. In continuance with last year’s trajectory, the residency, FOOD EDITION-II will once again have a special focus on examining the… Continue reading Call for applications for International Artists’ Residency: In Context: public.art.ecology, FOOD EDITION-II

Get Fracktious – National Climate March in London

The Campaign against Climate Change, a UK-based group concerned with raising public awareness to human-caused climate change, is organizing a demonstration march through London on Saturday 1st December 2012. The main topic is the expansion of hydraulic fracturing or fracking, a destructive extraction practice of previously un-tappable “shale-gas”, in the UK, which is seen as… Continue reading Get Fracktious – National Climate March in London