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This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland Another interesting project around water. Watershed: Art, Activitsm and Community Engagement is a programme organised by Raoul Deal and Nicolas Lampert looking at Milwaukee and the Great Lakes Basin. There are three phases spanning 1) community outreach, 2) public interventions, and 3) exhibition. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// MAMMUT MAGAZINE #4 :: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// WORKING TITLE: Solastalgia What happens when the climate changes around you but you are still in the same location? The fourth issue of Mammut Magazine will investigate the effects of climate change on the human psyche, focusing on a new definition of sadness called “solastalgia.” Coined by Miami-based artist Xavier Cortada will present his artwork Native Flags at the Verge Miami Art Fair Dec. 3–6. The goal of the project is reforestation and awareness of global warming and its impact on political jostling for control of the Northwest Passage. Cortada planted his green flag at the North Pole this past Boring Milipede Erratic Ant Hornet Robberfly read more] Pyranees | Art and ecology in the 21st centuryOnline workshopSeptember 12 to October 17 The aim of this workshop is to develop a collective artwork via the internet that will reflect on the transformations in
Artist-in-residence at UCL’s Environment Institute Martin John Callanan has completed his artwork A Planetary Order, a terrestrial globe showing clouds around the planet from one single moment in time. Working with This is A.T.R.E.E.M (Automated Tree-Rental for Emission Encaging Machine) by Nitipak Samsen, a student at the Design Interactions course at the RCA in London. Samsen’s artwork Reported widely as a “but-is-it-art” case, Chapman Kelley’s decision to sue the city of Chicago for ripping up half of his wildflower artwork is a fascinating one. At first glance you might think it shows how powerless artists are in the face of bureaucracy. In fact it shows the exact … Go to http://vimeo.com/user1428
I went to Manchester to visit Futuresonic yesterday and joined in Amy Balkin’s artwork Reading the IPCC’s Fourt Assessment on Climate Change outside the Centre for the Urban Built Environment. Afterwards I spoke to Amy Balkin about her work there:
Amy Balkin | Futuresonic 2009 from RSA Arts & Ecology on [read more] The parliament of reality, a new artwork by Olafur Eliasson consisting of a man-made island, will be opened on May 16. For more information see the RSA Arts & Ecology website. |
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