Chico Mendes Legacy Lecture 13.01.09

On 13 January 2009 RSA Arts & Ecology teamed up with the Young Vic and People’s Palace Projects to present a lively encounter programmed to coincide with Amazonia, the theatre’s latest extraordinary production inspired by the life and legacy of world-famous environmental activist, Chico Mendes, who was assassinated because of his political views in December [...]

Touring Artists and Presenters: Partnering for Change

I’m a solo, touring, performance artist. Really solo. I often travel alone and my lighting and sound requirements are minimal. Compared with many touring artists and companies, I’m already a fairly green operation. I didn’t plan it this way – it’s just that my work relies on audience interaction rather than on stunning set or [...]

Eco Arts: Artwork Created From Recycled Cigarette Butts – Ecofriend

Those of you who can’t bear the smell of tobacco, especially if it’s coming from your own eco clothes, designer Tom Deininger is the person to look for. The artist makes use of old cigarette butts collected from parking lots to create stunning pieces of art that range from a furry, adorable and of course, [...]

Eco Arts: Students Create Musical Instruments From Recycled Materials – Ecofriend

Students at the Applewild School in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, have a green mindset at an age none of us would have ever thought about conserving the environment. A team of students in grades four and five at the school were in need of some musical instruments for a concert, but unlike us they didn’t buy them, [...]

Bruce Sterling

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Expression and environment

By Andrew Taylor on the Artful Manager
When we talk about cultural disciplines — dance, theater, fiction, and so on — we tend to speak of them as if they are self-contained. Theater may respond to evolving stage technology and alternative spacers, but it’s still roughly theater in the way we know it. And because significant [...]

Sharjah Biennial 8 Symposium

The Symposium, which forms part of the Sharjah Biennial, aims to explore specific aspects of the relationship between culture and ecology – not least the challenges and the contradictions. The event will profile the extraordinary work taking place in architecture, the visual arts, across new technologies, in design and on screen. Discussions will involve artists, [...]

Ecology and Artistic Practice

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Garden Museum is Renamed and Re-done : TreeHugger

It used to be called the Museum of Garden History, now its the Garden Museum. And it used to be a shabby, down-at-the-heels space, carved out of the ground floor of a former church. And now it is a “wow”: renovated by London architects Dow Jones. The museum has been around since 1977, saved because [...]

USC | Art in the Public Sphere

Master of Public Art Studies: Art in the Public Sphere graduate program at the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts functions as a hub for critically rethinking the role of art in the public sphere and analyzing art’s complex engagements with social space.
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