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The Future Is Not What It Used to Be

The Future Is Not What It Used to Be, curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo, is on display in the Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery at Trinity University, San Antonio, TX (USA) until  April 7, 2012. The exhibition features works by thirteen artists exploring human incursion on the landscape. Through a variety of media, these… Continue reading The Future Is Not What It Used to Be

“Pumping” at Adamski Gallery in Berlin

Solo exhibition by Joel Tauber – from March 6 to April 28 Joel Tauber is Assistant Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. His installation is “looking at a period that seems remarkably similar to our own – the end of the 19th century in America”. The artist says about his project: During my research… Continue reading “Pumping” at Adamski Gallery in Berlin

Sustainability in Theater: People, Planet, Profit, Purpose

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), April 30 – May 1, 2012 This event will address the question “How can we tangibly change the way we run our theaters to ensure we survive and have a significant positive impact on our environment and community?” Presenting organizations include: Broadway Green Alliance (New York): helped convert 97% of Broadway’s marquees… Continue reading Sustainability in Theater: People, Planet, Profit, Purpose

2012 iLAND Symposium

New-York, USA, March 23-24, 2012 Wollman Hall at The New School | 65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor Tickets: $5 – $25 (Sliding Scale) The 2012 iLAND Symposium will be entitled: Moving Into the Out There: Indeterminacy and Improvisation in Performance and Environmental Practice. This event is an open forum for exploring new methods of… Continue reading 2012 iLAND Symposium

Everything Forever Now: eco-design exhibition

Bangkok, until March 18, 2012 The British Council in Bangkok in collaboration with the Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) presents the exhibition “Everything Forever Now: Designs for a sustainable future”, a showcase of new approaches and innovations in sustainable design by contemporary designers and architects. More information on Culture360.org: Click here

Between art and environment: Case studies from Thailand, Malaysia and India

The case studies are part of an Asia-Europe Foundation commissioned research project entitled “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”. Thailand: In Doi Saket, an artists’ residency programme brings together local communities and artists to reflect on diverse facets of everyday life to gain a more open perspective about their positions in the… Continue reading Between art and environment: Case studies from Thailand, Malaysia and India

Urban Furrows

As part of Maribor 2012, European Capital of Culture, the “Urban Furrows” programme includes several projects such as “Sustainable Local Supply” (promoting short economic circuits between food production and consumption), a seed library for local plant species and the “Rhizome collective” aiming to empower immigrants and jobless workers, among other projects. Read more on Culture360.org:… Continue reading Urban Furrows

Some of the videos from the Radius of Art conference

This is a selection of videos focusing on the conference introduction and on the thematic window “Art toward Cultures of Sustainability” at the Radius of Art conference (Berlin, Feb. 8-9 2012). This specific thematic window was organized by the Heinrich Boell Foundation in collaboration with Cultura21.

The Slave Business and Its Material and Moral Hinterlands in Continental Europe

Conference at the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool (UK), April 20-22, 2012 The history of transatlantic slavery is one of the most active and fruitful fields of historical research worldwide. As scholarship in this field is increasingly global, it opens up unique possibilities for international collaboration. More particularly, the most recent research which looks beyond the… Continue reading The Slave Business and Its Material and Moral Hinterlands in Continental Europe