Manifesta 9

Opening on June 2nd 2012 and running until September 30th 2012, Manifesta 9 takes place in the former coalmining complex of Waterschei in Genk, Limburg, Belgium.  Manifesta 9 is an assembly of artworks, testimonies, and participants inviting the viewer to rethink the role of culture in industrial and post-industrial societies. For its ninth edition, which… Continue reading Manifesta 9

Manifesta 9

Opening on June 2nd 2012 and running until September 30th 2012, Manifesta 9 takes place in the former coalmining complex of Waterschei in Genk, Limburg, Belgium.  Manifesta 9 is an assembly of artworks, testimonies, and participants inviting the viewer to rethink the role of culture in industrial and post-industrial societies. For its ninth edition, which… Continue reading Manifesta 9

ASTR Working Session Calls for Papers “Trans-cultural, trans-national, trans-species histories in performance”

Since their first American Society for The Theatre Research (ASTR) Working Group session at the 2010 conference in Seattle, the Performance and Ecology Working Group has spawned symposia, anthologies, and publications. Foremost among those is a new volume that grew out of the 2010 session: Readings in Performance and Ecology, eds., Wendy Arons and Theresa… Continue reading ASTR Working Session Calls for Papers “Trans-cultural, trans-national, trans-species histories in performance”

Fear Me No More: Performance, Activism and Permaculture

A free workshop with the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination Hamburg, Kampnagel – August 2012. Held as part of Kampnagel’s Summer Festival in Hamburg, the workshop is Act 1 of What is Enough? the Labofii’s 16th experiment. At the end of the workshop, participants will have the chance to perform in a live piece of art… Continue reading Fear Me No More: Performance, Activism and Permaculture

Peninsula Europe: The Force Majeure

Workshop, Presentation and Panel Discussion with Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison (Santa Cruz, CA) – Friday 01/06/2012, 2 pm – 7.30 pm in Lueneburg, Germany Workshop: 2 – 5 pm – Please register: info(at)kim-art.net Presentation and Panel Discussion: 6 pm s.t.  Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lueneburg – Scharnhorststrasse 1, Campus Hall 25, 21335… Continue reading Peninsula Europe: The Force Majeure

Be a gathering! The Natural Circus trainings, Spring 2012

‘I am movement and stillness at the same time’ The Natural Circus trainings are a body and movement practice (and maybe a bit more), embedded in an understanding that ‘nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect’. Situated in a powerful natural environment, they are playful gatherings beyond the human(-centered) perspective that may help realize… Continue reading Be a gathering! The Natural Circus trainings, Spring 2012

Opportunity to make work at Teaneck Creek

The Ecoart Committee of the Teaneck Creek Conservancy in Teaneck, NJ seeks proposals from ecoartists or ecoartist teams to create an ecoartwork in 2012-13. The Teaneck Creek Conservancy is a 46-acre eco-park within Bergen County’s 1,200-acre Overpeck Park, this property is being reclaimed and rehabilitated as wetland habitat and for positive public use through a… Continue reading Opportunity to make work at Teaneck Creek

Science Inspires Art 2012: VITAL SIGNS

Open Call for Artists: What vital signs of life pull at your inquisitive mind and imagination? The Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) announces an Open Call for their annual,  international, art-sci competition. The exhibition will be held at the New York Hall of Science, September 1, 2012 – February 3, 2013. For this year’s… Continue reading Science Inspires Art 2012: VITAL SIGNS

Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms

Brandon Ballengée – Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms May 5 – July 31 (extended) 2012 Visual artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée will exhibit sculptural installations and photographs at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in his first major solo exhibition in New York. The exhibition, entitled “Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms”, consists of three bodies… Continue reading Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms

Key Issues Guide on Indigenous knowledge and climate change

Indigenous communities have long been recognised as being particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to the close connection between their livelihoods, culture, spirituality and social systems and their environment. At the same time, however, this deep and long-established relationship with the natural environment affords many indigenous peoples with knowledge that they have… Continue reading Key Issues Guide on Indigenous knowledge and climate change