Patricia Watts, ecoartspace founder and west coast curator was recently invited to write a short essay for a gallery exhibition catalogue titled Monsantra published by TNG Gallery in Calgary featuring the work of Canadian artist Wendy DesChene and American artist Jeff Schmuki. The essay is online here. Since 2006 when she curated Hybrid Fields at… Continue reading Wendy DesChene + Jeff Schmuki: Mosantra
Tag: contemporary art
Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention
May 22 – December 02, 2012 The Field Museum, Chicago Harnessing technology and inspired by nature’s amazing design concepts, Nature’s Toolbox features innovative, eye-capturing contemporary art which helps visitors understand and appreciate the life-or-death interdependence between the 10-20 million species on earth – including humans – and the quality of the environment we share. … Continue reading Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention
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
Atmospheres of Protest
Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art Central European University Budapest (Hungary) – 11 May 2012 The upsurge of new popular movements from Egypt to Greece and Bucharest to New York has engendered an atmosphere of defiance and social creativity that has captured the global imagination. Beyond the ebb and flow of individual protest movements, this… Continue reading Atmospheres of Protest
Isomorphism
ISOMORPHISM is an online art magazine (based in Romania) that publishes on interaction of contemporary art with a wide range of today’s realities. From political philosophies and civil movements to present day nanotechnology and biotechnology implicated in artistic creation the magazine’s subjects include articles, essays, reviews, presentation of ideas, interviews, events and projects. Link: ISOMORPHISM… Continue reading Isomorphism
Talk & Opening: In Context:Public.Art.Ecology – Food Edition – I
Friday, 13th April, 2012 – 6:00 pm onwards – New Delhi Khoj Studios , S-17 Khirkee Extension Works on view till 18th April, 2012 – 11:00 am – 7:00pm In Context: Public.Art.Ecology, Food Edition I is an International Residency with art projects and interventions in public spaces exploring the intersection between art and ecology through the… Continue reading Talk & Opening: In Context:Public.Art.Ecology – Food Edition – I
Call for proposals: Kunstbroedplaats 2012 – DRIFT
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.
Call for Papers: CONTEMP ART ’12
Turkey From the 11th to 14th of April 2012 the Contemporary Art Conference takes place in Istanbul, Turkey. It is open to the approaches of institutions and history of contemporary art as well as to styles generated by various international artists with different tendencies. Contemporary art has contrary characteristics and constantly renews itself and its… Continue reading Call for Papers: CONTEMP ART ’12
COAL Prize 2012 – Rural
Call for entries – Open to January 15th 2012 The COAL PRIZE Art&Environment reward each year a project about the environment by a contemporary artist. The winner is chosen by a jury of personalities from the worlds of contemporary art, research, ecology and sustainable development, out of 10 finalists selected from an international call for… Continue reading COAL Prize 2012 – Rural
IN CONTEXT: PUBLIC.ART.ECOLOGY II
Open Studio Day: 1st April 2011; Time: 6:00 pm onwards; Venue: KHOJ Studios and Select CITYWALK, Saket (India) Projects on view: KHOJ Court by Ackroyd & Harvey (UK); My Love Is An Icy Cold Fever by Navin Thomas (India); Unpacking Social Networks by Partik Sagar (India); Econnect+ Love Motel for Insects by Ecohaven Project+ Brandon… Continue reading IN CONTEXT: PUBLIC.ART.ECOLOGY II
