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About the Exhibition: TPS Reports: Performance Documents is an exhibition of the “stuff” that results from performances: detritus, photographs, drawings, sculptures, videos, etc. We are not interested in the documentation of the performance itself, just the results. We are mostly looking for the items that were made as the primary goal of Edward Burtynsky, Oil Fields #13, Taft, California, USA, 2002 Sze Tsung Leong, Beizhuanzi II, Siming District, Xiamen, 2004 ECOAESTHETIC and CONSUME June 18 – August 28, 2010 Opening Friday, June 18, 7-10pm NEW YORK – ECOAESTHETIC (Demonstrations of Ecological Modes of Operation for Art) by Linda Weintraub as published in the Fall 2009 issue of the CSPA Quarterly My goal as a curator was the earnest pursuit of environmental responsibility. I invited ten artists to boldly break the conventions of art display and production that arose during the Artists will lead a conversation about public art and sustainability during “Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology,” an exhibition at New York’s Exit Art this winter. The show is a survey of a five-month voyage around the boroughs of New York by Waterpod, a floating, sculptural structure and community-building space designed as a futuristic Moe Beitiks of Inhabitat (amongst other things) conducted an email interview with CSPA Executive Director, Ian Garrett (Me). You can see the whole things here: INTERVIEW: Ian Garrett Reports on COP15 and the Arts | Inhabitat. Some Excerpts: INHABITAT: What were your cultural expectations for Copenhagen? Warning: file_get_contents(http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/user1428.php) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in /home/cspa_vpsuser/sustainablepractice.org/wp-content/plugins/smart-youtube/smartyoutube.php on line 1234 Really. It’s a common blip for the wordpress theme to get all aggressively defaulty, but hopefully now it is fixed. We hope. We are hoping. ‘Cause the blips and farts are really exhausting. In the meantime, some really awesome stuff has been going on. In Seattle, artist Mandy Greer has 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 |
  
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