Marknesse, the Netherlands May to December 2012 The former Hydrodynamic Laboratory Waterloopbos hosts in 2012 DRIFT, a contemporary visual art project dealing with transformation. It is the fourth art in nature project of Rerun Productions Foundation, that is a non-profit organization that puts its focus to cultural and social issues in publications and art projects.
Conference: Radius of art
Berlin 8th – 9th of February 2012 The international conference „Radius of art: Creative politicization of the public sphere /Cultural potential forces for social transformation“ takes place in Berlin on the 8th and 9th of February. It puts artistic and cultural projects into the focus of of the political discourse. The purposeful choice of speakers… Continue reading Conference: Radius of art
Julie’s Bicycle
London Julies Bicycle is a non-profit company working in the field of environmental sustainability. Its aim is to help integrate it into the business, art and ethics of the music, theatre and creative industries and reduce carbon emissions. It provides expertise in environmental sustainability to over 350 organisations in the UK as well as internationally… Continue reading Julie’s Bicycle
SurVivArt – Art for the Right to a Good Life
Berlin 7th to 24th of February 2012 From the 7th to the 24th of February the exhibition SurVivArt – Art For the Right to a «Good Life» takes place at the galleries Mikael Andersen and Meinblau in Berlin. International artists from Ethiopia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Thailand and the Czech Republic were invited to do a… Continue reading SurVivArt – Art for the Right to a Good Life
Conference: Probing the Skin
Jena 24th to 26th of April 2013 From April the 24th to April the 26th 2013 the conference “Probing the Skin: Cultural representations of Our Contact Zone” takes place at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. The organizers Prof. Caroline Rosenthal and Prof. Dirk Vanderbeke aks for submission of papers including artistic reflections of skin related themes… Continue reading Conference: Probing the Skin
Review: Encounter with Giovanni Impastato
On the 2nd of November 2011 the Sicilian Giovanni Impastato, who fights against the mafia, was invited in Düsseldorf and Cologne, in order to present his book Resistere a Mafiopoli (Resist Mafiopolis) at the Heinrich-Heine-University and at the Filmhaus Cologne. In this book Giovanni Impastato tells the story of his brother Peppino Impastato to the… Continue reading Review: Encounter with Giovanni Impastato
New eBook available
The eBook „Negatives Menschenbild und Separationsdenken in der modernen Gesellschaft“ by Davide Brocchi is now available for download as PDF file. The author deals with the source and the effect of the negative image of humanity and refers therefore to advocates of the negative image of humanity like Niccoló Macchiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. The thought… Continue reading New eBook available
Conference: Environmental Utterance
UK September 1st – 2nd, 2012 On the 1st and 2nd of September 2012 the University College Falmouth inc. Darlington College of Arts invites to the conference Environmental Utterance. Highly contextual practices are used in every academic disciplines, exploring ways of articulating specific environments, spaces or places. This conference examines a specific problematic that attends the dissemination of… Continue reading Conference: Environmental Utterance
Publication: Music and Arts in Action (MAiA)
The first special issue of Music and Arts in Action (MAiA) presents the proceedings of a 2009 conference on ‘Music and Migration’, which was part of the 3-year research project ‘Diaspora as Social and Cultural Practice: A Study of Transnational Networks across Europe and Africa’. The project was based at the Universities of Southampton and… Continue reading Publication: Music and Arts in Action (MAiA)
The Home and the World – On Being at Home
South Devon 19th to 21st of June 2012 From the 19th to the 21st of June 2012 a creative summit for artists and other thinkers will take place at Dartington Hall Estate in south Devon/England. The summit will focus on the question if the alienation of humankind from the natural world has effected his condition… Continue reading The Home and the World – On Being at Home
