June 22, 2013 Imagining Natural Scotland is a major new interdisciplinary project for the Year of Natural Scotland 2013. Initiated by Creative Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and the University of St Andrews, it will explore the interplay between the natural world and its representation, and promote deep collaboration and knowledge exchange between the creative and… Continue reading Imagining Natural Scotland’s projects
A New Social Action Holocaust Memorial Project
October 2013 – May 2014, The Vienna Project, Austria The project is to be situated on the streets of Vienna and along the Danube Canal. Forging a dynamic relationship between different disciplines: art, video, typography, web design, street theater, sound art, history, archival research, and Holocaust education, The Vienna Project is envisioned as a “living”… Continue reading A New Social Action Holocaust Memorial Project
Call for Papers : “Where is our ecological art history?
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?
‘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
