Fallen Fruit Presents EAT LACMA

February–November 2010
EAT LACMA is a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics. Fusing the richness of LACMA’s permanent collection with the ephemerality of food and the natural growth cycle, EAT LACMA’s projects consider food as a common ground that explores the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships. EAT LACMA [...]

PLYMOUTH ARTS CENTRE | Call for Artists

CALL FOR ARTISTSPerformance Market | 21-24 January 2010
Deadline for applications 5pm, Monday 23 November 2009Call for artists from all disciplines interested in developing performance elements in their work
Artists (including students) from Devon and Cornwall are invited to make a proposal for Performance Market. Internationally acclaimed performance artist Marina Abramović will select seven artists to [...]

Invitation to local artists | Tatton Park Biennial 2010

Tatton Park Biennial | Invitation to local artistsArtists from Cheshire and the North West are invited to take part in Open Competitions as part of Tatton Park Biennial 2010Next year sees the return of this remarkable contemporary arts event in Tatton’s gardens. The inaugural Biennial, which took place in the summer of 2008, saw nearly [...]

Video: building The Dalston Mill

EXYZT | The Dalston Mill from RSA Arts & Ecology on Vimeo.

EXYZT | The Dalston Mill from RSA Arts & Ecology on Vimeo.
Radical Nature curator Francesco Manacorda and EXYZT architect Nicolas Henninger on the site of The Dalston Mill during the installation.
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blog.GreenMuseum.org: We Look Different.

There have been some blips and blurps over the past few weeks on the greenmuseum blog as we settle into this new, fancy-pants version of WordPress. It didn’t like our old theme. So we changed to this one. It’s Green. To mark the occasion, here’s a link to an excellent interview of Maja and Reuben [...]

RSA Arts & Ecology – Interview | Gustav Metzger

“I thought one could fuse the political ideal of social change with art”
Emma Ridgway, curator of The RSA Arts & Ecology Centre, interviews Gustav Metzger
Born in 1926 to Polish-Jewish parents in Nuremberg, Gustav Metzger is an artist known for his radical approach. His work responds directly to political, economic and ecological issues. Creating manifestos and [...]

Earth Matters on Stage: Ashden Directory Session

Friday morning at Earth Matters on Stage a small group of us piled into the video conferencing room in the Knight Library at University of Oregon to have a conversation with our interested counterparts in the UK. Our second, but certainly more ambitious, video conference of the day, it harkens back to the discussion surrounding [...]

Public art: Jaume Pensa’s big Dream

Michaela Crimmin: “I have just been to the launch of the extraordinary – the wonderful – new work by Jaume Plensa outside Runcorn in Cheshire, part of Channel 4’s Big Art Project.This has been commissioned by a group of ex-miners wanting to commemorate the heritage of their previous industry; but with a positive rather than [...]

Nicholas Bourriaud | Altermodern Manifesto

Theorist and curator Nicolas Bourriaud wrote his Altermodern Manifesto as part of Altermodern, the fourth Tate Triennial It proposes that the era of globalisation and creolisation compel us to new types of representation exist beyond the relativist scope of post-modermism.
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Tipping Point to commission climate change performances – 4 May deadline

Editors’ note: This commission is unique among those dealing with art and climate change in its focus on performance and theatre.
The Tipping Point Commissions are inviting artists to submit proposals for new performance work in the context of climate change. The proposals will be considered by a selection panel, leading to around four commission awards of at [...]

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