Last May, this new book edited by Theresa J. May and Wendy Arons, which focuses on how theatre, dance and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values, was published. This collection of essays helps leading scholars and practitioners explore the ways that familiar and new works of theatre and dance can… Continue reading Readings in Performance and Ecology
Tag: ecological art
Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways III February – June 2012
Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways is a project inviting reflection by artists on the anxieties embodied by the rank infrastructural development across India and its uncomfortable coexistence with local ecologies. Now in its third year, the project has invited artists, collectives and other professionals to develop projects that are site-specific and have an inter-disciplinary… Continue reading Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways III February – June 2012
Nomads Occupy the Global Village: Left Political Art Timeline, 2001-2012
For the last decades, collaborations between art and ecology have become more popular as an option to try solving environmental issues, as well as a way of social intervention. You can take a look at the work of several environmental artists in this article by G. Roger Denson, cultural critic and essayist, published by the… Continue reading Nomads Occupy the Global Village: Left Political Art Timeline, 2001-2012
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
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
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
White Mountain National Forest & Arts Alliance of Northern NH Invite Applications for 2012 WMNF Artist-in-Residence Program
Artists in all media are invited to apply for the 2012 White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) Artist-in-Residence program The program, a collaboration between the WMNF and the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire, seeks to highlight the ways the arts can be used to explore and interpret the forest environment and forest-related issues. The residency… Continue reading White Mountain National Forest & Arts Alliance of Northern NH Invite Applications for 2012 WMNF Artist-in-Residence Program
Sustainability as a minor at US art schools
Article in the Huffington Post: “Sustainability Has Become a Growing Focus of Artists’ (and Art Schools’) Attention” A recent article in the Huffington Post notices the growing interest in sustainability and eco-art at some US American art schools (such as e.g. the Maryland Institute College of Art). To read the article: click here
FLORA URBANA – GREEN ISLAND 2012
Milan Design Week, April 17-22 2012 (Italy) – a project by Claudia Zanfi (director of aMAZElab / Laboratorio del Paesaggio) Garibaldi Train Station, Milan – Opening April 17th at 12 pm The GREEN ISLAND project was created out of the need to bring citizens back to a dimension of greater harmony between the urban fabric… Continue reading FLORA URBANA – GREEN ISLAND 2012
