Local innovation for global Impact is the slogan of the oikos Winter School 2012. From the 3rd to the 11th of November they are inviting “young change maker from all around the world” to join them in the Ruhr area: “Germany’s post-industrial area where transition is happening”. “In order to answer the question “How to… Continue reading Oikos Winter School 2012
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Arts and Politics: Bridging the Progress of Cultural Sustainability
Wednesday 12 September, 6-8 p.m. – a panel discussion organized by “ArtPolitics” at Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin ArtsPolitics is a new platform for artists, and political and scientific experts to discuss and collaborate. Their purpose is “to inspire cultural & intellectual progress by building greater understanding between the arts & politics.”
Water, Water Everywhere
Water, Water Everywhere, a traveling media exhibition about diverse water issues, is being shown from August 1st to December 31st at Los Gatos Art Museum in the US (click here for details) and will be next at Upez African Humanitarian Development Project, Lagos, Nigeria (October 27 & 28). More information on the exhibition website
WEAD Magazine
The 5th issue of WEAD Magazine is out, and it’s about enviromental/ecological artists responses to “the atomic legacy” – this issue is edited by Susan Leibovitz Steinman. It brings perspectives from Japan, Chernobyl, New Mexico, and US areas threatened by aging nuclear plants in Florida, California and Washington. (WEAD stands for: Women Environmental Artists Directory.)… Continue reading WEAD Magazine
Betsy Damon’s Water Rules-Life
Eco-artist Betsy Damon’s work Water Rules-Life will be exhibited as part of Feminist and…, organized by Guest Curator Hilary Robinson at the Mattress Factory Art Museumin Pittsburgh (USA). This exhibition, open from September 7th 2012 to May 26th 2013, aims to “show that feminism is not a single-issue set of politics but rather a multi-vocal,… Continue reading Betsy Damon’s Water Rules-Life
Leviathan and the Sensory Ethnography Lab
Leviathan, a documentary film about fishing ships in the Northern Atlantic, by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, won the international critics’ prize at the Locarno Film Festival. I could see it, thanks to Mark Peranson and Bettina Steinbrügge, and indeed, I pass you on the recommendation to go and see this work, which achieves “an… Continue reading Leviathan and the Sensory Ethnography Lab
Yoko Ono and the “artists against fracking” coalition
“Yoko Ono said it was not hard to recruit more than 180 artists to help convince Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York not to allow natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale through the hydraulic fracturing process known as fracking.” Read more on the New York Times website
2nd African Creative Economy Conference
The Arterial Network is holding its second “African Creative Economy Conference” on November 14 -16 2012 in Dakar, Senegal. According to its organisers: “The aims of the conference are to provide practical analysis and reflective overview of the current status of African creative economy. This should help consolidate emergent African expertise in this area while… Continue reading 2nd African Creative Economy Conference
film/book launch
The “Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination” (LABOFII) is spending the summer in Germany, launching the film/book: Pfade durch Utopia (published by Nautilus) : Aug 24th – Hamburg, Kampnagel, 19.00 Aug 25th – Leipzig, Schaubühne Lindenfels, 20.00 Aug 26th – Belzig, Kino hofgarten, 20.00 Aug 29th – Hamburg, Abaton Kino, 20.00 Aug 31st – Berlin, Sputnik Kino,… Continue reading film/book launch
15th International Festival Mladi levi
August 23 – September 2, 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia “This year’s festival programme is in tune with the times we live in, as it demonstrates a profound engagement and strong political agenda through the expressive manners of the artists who delve into the issues of blind consumerism, who speak up about energy consumption and chaos and,… Continue reading 15th International Festival Mladi levi
