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Festival IDEAS CITY

New York City, 01/05/2013 – 04/05/2013 The 2013 iteration of IDEAS CITY, the biennial festival created to explore the future city and to effect change, will take place in downtown New York on May 1–4, 2013. Formerly known as the Festival of Ideas for the New City, IDEAS CITY was founded by the New Museum… Continue reading Festival IDEAS CITY

Pop-Up Repair and theatre artists

Set designer Sandra Goldmark is starting up a new sustainability project with her husband, Michael Banta, a production manager and technical director, along with several theatre colleagues. They are opening a 4 week Pop-Up Repair shop in northern Manhattan, this June. The shop is a challenge to the cycle of use-and-discard consumer goods, and will be staffed… Continue reading Pop-Up Repair and theatre artists

Fish Story Talk and Artmaking Workshop in Memphis, TN (USA)

A pre-opening event for Memphis Social, at Crosstown Arts – Organizer: Aviva Rahmani, ecological artist Address: 427 N Watkins St, Memphis, TN 38138 (USA) – Date: Monday, May 6, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm Where do the lives of fish and people meet in Memphis? An evening of talk and artmaking will map the… Continue reading Fish Story Talk and Artmaking Workshop in Memphis, TN (USA)

Eden3: Trees are the Language of Landscape

Exhibition – April 22 to May 25, 2013 Tent Gallery, in Art Space and Nature – Edinburgh College of Art – Evolution House (corner of Westport and Lady Lawson Street) – Edinburgh, EH1 2LE, Scotland Hours: Tues-Fri 12noon to 4:45PM or by appointment on Saturday. The Collins & Goto Studio presents an on-going series of… Continue reading Eden3: Trees are the Language of Landscape

Call for abstracts: Ecology In Practice – Creative Conservation Symposium

5th World Conference on Ecological Restoration in Madison, Wisconsin, USA October 6-11, 2013 The symposium is convened by David Haley and Richard Scott. Haley has convened and chaired the Ecological Arts symposia at SER (Society for Ecological Restoration) World Conferences in 2000 (Liverpool), 2005 (Zaragoza) and 2011 (Merida), and contributed to Richard Scott’s Creative Conservation workshops… Continue reading Call for abstracts: Ecology In Practice – Creative Conservation Symposium

Mierle Laderman Ukeles at Grazer Kunstverein

Maintenance Art Works 1969–1980 – On show until May 19th 2013 This is the very first comprehensive European solo exhibition of the artist’s earlier work. Originally organized in 1998 by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts gallery in New York, the exhibition presents a body of work spanning over a decade of significant production. In 1969, following… Continue reading Mierle Laderman Ukeles at Grazer Kunstverein

The Fargo Project: Jackie Brookner at TEDxFargo City 2.0

For humans to survive, ecological artist Jackie Brookner says it is not enough to change the ways we fuel, feed, entertain and shelter ourselves. Something much more basic has to happen. We need to mainstream a different understanding of who we are, as individuals and as a species. She calls this “the being of human,”… Continue reading The Fargo Project: Jackie Brookner at TEDxFargo City 2.0

Project seeks to map and reduce ocean noise pollution

In an effort to reduce the undocumented and unlimited rising of oceanic noise pollution, the US government is completing the first phase of a project by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which seeks to document human-made noises in the ocean and transform the results into the world’s first oceanic sound maps. The first results… Continue reading Project seeks to map and reduce ocean noise pollution

Live Dancing Archive at The Kitchen

From February 14 – 23, The Kitchen and iLAND, Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance, present the New York premiere of dancer and choreographer Jennifer Monson’s Live Dancing Archive, a visceral exploration of the dancing body as physical archive of experience and place. The piece, which marks Monson’s return to The Kitchen after 15… Continue reading Live Dancing Archive at The Kitchen