Caleb Klaces writes: The Age of Stupid uses a dramatic, fictional character to frame a series of apparently disparate contemporary documentaries. Pete Postlethwaite’s man on a chopper looking back from the future, as well as pithy animated sequences explaining the scientific, economic and sociological facts and figures, connects the people … Go to
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[Crosspost from the Respond! blog] With over 60 events listed in Respond!, it’s clear that there is a huge amount of activity going on in the arts which tackles the environment agenda. A few key players helped nudge the arts scene towards this subject matter. In a new interview for the … Go Everyone’s talking about rise of far-right BNP vote; one thing I haven’t noticed much discussion about is the UK’s green vote. The Green Party is up but from from 6.2% of the vote to 8.7% of the total, at 1,303,745 votes . In line with their prediction of 9%, this wasn’t … Go A Time Comes: The Story of the Kingsnorth Six. A film by Nick Broomfield: Nick Broomfield: “Obviously, offering your services for a film isn’t exactly direct action, but climate change is a catastrophic situation, and people increasingly need to feel involved themselves, rather than relying on other people to do it … Go Via Citypollen, a video of Mircea Cantor’s Monument for the end of the world, which the blogger came across as part of Modern Art Oxford’s Transmission Interrupted (which continues until June 21.) And for her it raises an interesting questions. Why are public spaces dominated by thoughts of the past, … Go to The Ashden Directory have just put out this series of videos, What can be asked? What can be shown? British theatre and performance in the age of climate instability. The Ashden Directory, who like us are interested in the role the arts are playing in changing attitudes to climate change, … Go to The folks over at The Ashden Directory participated in this year’s Earth Matters on Stage at the University of Oregon from afar — an act borne of the desire to contribute to the conference/symposium without flying across the globe to do so. Here is a DVD they produced in order to introduce their session. My current curatorial project Down to Earth: Artists Create Edible Landscapes is underway at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education (SCEE) in Philadelphia, a show with 6 artists or artist teams, each creating a work about sustainable agriculture. The show takes place at a section of SCEE’s 3oo-plus acre site called Brolo Farm, Exit Art in New York City has extended the run of an interesting show: “Vertical Gardens,” a project of Papo Colo’s SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics). Extended through June 6, 2009, “Vertical Gardens” is an exhibition of architectural models, renderings, drawings, photographs and ephemera that depict or imagine a vertical farm, urban garden or green roof. |
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