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
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Yoko Ono and the “artists against fracking” coalition
“Yoko Ono said it was not hard to recruit more than 180 artists to help convince Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York not to allow natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale through the hydraulic fracturing process known as fracking.” Read more on the New York Times website
Liberate Tate´s gift
Liberate Tate is a group of artists and activists who oppose to BP´s sponsorship of the Tate galleries, they believe that BP´s sponsorship is incompatible with the Tate´s ethical guidelines,because the corporation is engaged in socially and ecologically destructive activities. Last weekend, on July 7th, the group arrived at the Tate Museum with a new… Continue reading Liberate Tate´s gift
“Pumping” at Adamski Gallery in Berlin
Solo exhibition by Joel Tauber – from March 6 to April 28 Joel Tauber is Assistant Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. His installation is “looking at a period that seems remarkably similar to our own – the end of the 19th century in America”. The artist says about his project: During my research… Continue reading “Pumping” at Adamski Gallery in Berlin
“Edward Burtynsky: Oil” at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Exhibition until July 3rd; Symposium on May 6th and 7th The images of the exhibition Edward Burtynsky: Oil explore the hotly-debated effects of oil extraction and our international dependency on the substance. The symposium in May brings together top scientific and arts industry experts for two days of discussion about essential issues of oil, planetary sustainability, and the energy options available… Continue reading “Edward Burtynsky: Oil” at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Oil Spill: Information Gulf exhibition / panel discussion
Santa Fe Art Institute (Tipton Hall), Friday, March 25, 18:00 Panelists: Riki Ott, Aviva Rahmani, and Debbie Fleming Caffery, moderated by Patricia Watts will discuss the spill, its aftermath, and the role of the arts as tellers/revealers of truth. There will be a webcast component and connection to the GULF to GULF project as well… Continue reading Oil Spill: Information Gulf exhibition / panel discussion
Performing Ecology, a Vision for the Gulf of Mexico
Please join Aviva Rahmani for the launch of two new films, Desecration and Resurrection. The premiere is part of the eartotheearth festival www.emfproductions.org As the British Petroleum oil spill unfolded in the Gulf of Mexico, a restored intertidal salt marsh in the Gulf of Maine was coming back to life. Performing Ecology, a Vision for the… Continue reading Performing Ecology, a Vision for the Gulf of Mexico
