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
Call for Participants: SymbioticA Biotech for Artists Workshop
28th January – 1st February, 2013 Deadline for applications – Monday 26th November 2012 BiofiliA, Base for Biological Arts, Aalto University, Finland, in collaboration with SymbioticA, The University of Western Australia is organizing an intensive five day workshop for artists and other interested people. After the workshop the opening of the new laboratory and biological… Continue reading Call for Participants: SymbioticA Biotech for Artists Workshop
Call for Papers: Media and Climate Change
Papers are welcomed for a special issue of the journal Environmental Communication: A Journal of Culture and Nature (Official Journal of IECA) to be published in March 2014 on the topic of Media Research on Climate Change. Acknowledging the vast amount of academic research done over the past decade on the media coverage of climate… Continue reading Call for Papers: Media and Climate Change
An Orange County Almanac, and other essays
Cultura21, in association with WOLFoundation, has the pleasure to announce its 7th Volume in the Cultura21 eBooks series on Culture and Sustainability: edited by J. Zammit-Lucia We need new ways of thinking about issues that affect how we interact with our environment. The authors whose work is collected here make some powerful calls for change.… Continue reading An Orange County Almanac, and other essays
Call for Program Planner – Pixelache Helsinki 2013 Festival
The Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2013, a festival of electronic art and subcultures, organized in Helsinki since 2002 is looking for organizations, groups or individuals who would like to organize a seminar and an exhibition for the Facing North – Facing South program of Pixelache in Helsinki in 2013, with the hope that the program will… Continue reading Call for Program Planner – Pixelache Helsinki 2013 Festival
Call for Artists: International Sculpture Competition
The Artistic Landscape The Gabarron Foundation is welcoming international artists and designers to submit works for an international public sculpture competition for the future Parque de Levante in the city of Murcia, Spain. When finished, Parque de Levante will be the largest outdoor sculpture parc in Spain and one of the largest of Europe. In… Continue reading Call for Artists: International Sculpture Competition
