CSPA Quarterly #8 is now available for purchase through MagCloud. CSPA´s third international issue focuses on projects that call attention to topics that extend well beyond national borders. With a focus on interdependence, and an abundance of contributions about water, ice, and sea rise, this issue addresses the space between national borders- our oceans. Featuring… Continue reading Out Now CSPA Q8: International Issue – The Sea is Rising
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Bolivian Animated Film “Abuela Grillo” Highlights Water Issues
Abuela Grillo, an adorable – though equally tear-jerking – animated short-film, calls attention to Bolivia’s fraught history with water privatization. The film is a collaboration between Bolivian animators and the Animation Workshop of Denmark. The Abuela Grillo character is based on a myth from the Bolivian lowlands, but the film tells the story of a… Continue reading Bolivian Animated Film “Abuela Grillo” Highlights Water Issues
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
Visions for Water – Ecological Artists Modeling Solutions for our Challenged Water Systems
New York February 11, 2012 On Saturday, February 11, 2012, ecoartspace presents the panel discussion Visions for Water at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, NYC (USA). In the discussion ecological artists like Lillian Ball, Jackie Brookner, Betsy Damon and Aviva Rahmani try to model solutions for the challenged water systems. The panel… Continue reading Visions for Water – Ecological Artists Modeling Solutions for our Challenged Water Systems
Artists & Environmental Change: The Elusive Power of Contemporary Art
Too Shallow for Diving: the 21st Century Is Treading Water The “Land“ artists in the 1970s as well as artists like Joseph Beuys and Agnes Denes in the 1980s paved the way for the ecological artists today and for art to act as an agent for social change. Today environmental art includes various approaches and… Continue reading Artists & Environmental Change: The Elusive Power of Contemporary Art
Lillian Ball: Waterwash ABC
New York Lillian Ball works in New York as an environmental artist and activist. She has a multidisciplinary background in anthropology, ethnographic film, and sculpture, which influences her work. Furthermore she has received numerous awards and has traveled widely due to her international exhibitions. Her latest project Waterwash ABC includes the construction of a wetland… Continue reading Lillian Ball: Waterwash ABC
Heavy Water – Peter Greenaway
Tel Aviv 22 October – 3 December 2011 The famous British filmmaker and artist Peter Greenaway presents a new, spectacular project Heavy Water, a multimedia project by Change Performing Arts, which was especially planned for Chelouche Gallery’s unique exhibit halls in Israel. After showing projects such as the 9 Classic Paintings Revisited and Leonardo’s last… Continue reading Heavy Water – Peter Greenaway
“Imperishable Water” and the Question of Development
Reposted from poieinkaiprattein.org Field workshop from 29th of May until 5th of June 2011 in Rhodes, Greece Departure: 29th of May 2011, 19.00 from the Port of Piraeus with the Blue Star Ferries. On the occasion of the World Environment Day, June 5th 2011, this field trip aims at combining artistic, philosophical and environmental approaches… Continue reading “Imperishable Water” and the Question of Development
“GROW_ABILITY” Exhibition in Riga, Latvia
Until May 8th at RIXC Gallery “Grow_Ability” is an interdisciplinary art e xhibition that explores issues of “food as energy”. The exhibition features three installations. Super Meal by the Swedish artist Erik Sjödin draws attention to the aquatic plant Azolla – one of the worlds fastest growing plants, which is a rich source of nutrients,… Continue reading “GROW_ABILITY” Exhibition in Riga, Latvia
Hydromemories: Call for examples of artists working with water
Reposted from eco/art/scot/land Hydromemories is seeking to build up an archive of artists working with water. The site already contains a number of interesting examples, to which one might add: Betsy Damon, Keepers of the Waters, Liz Ogilvie’s Bodies of Water amongst other works, Anne Bevan’s Source amongst other works, Common Ground’s Confluence and other… Continue reading Hydromemories: Call for examples of artists working with water
