Women Environmental Artists Directory

MISSION STATEMENT Focusing on women’s unique perspectives we collaborate internationally to further the field and understanding of ecological and social justice art. PURPOSE To provide information regarding the ecoart and social justice art fields to artists, curators, writers, art and public art administrators, educators in art and ecology, cross-disciplinary professionals and others. To facilitate international [...]

IMAGINE – Towards an eco-aesthetic, 2011

OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS IMAGINE - Towards an eco-aesthetic, 2011 The Aarhus Art Building, Centre for Contemporary Art, Denmark Artists and curators are hereby invited to submit proposals for 2011. Deadline March 15 http://www.aarhuskunstbygning.dk Only when people are in a position to use their own creative potentials, which can be enhanced by an artistic imagination, will a change occur [....] [...]

WOOLOO.ORG News & Opportunities

This December, Wooloo.org organized free accommodation for more than 3,000 activists who could not otherwise have come to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Using this large-scale human meeting as the exhibition platform for our NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN festival, we invited artists to provide form and content to the interactions of more [...]

Land Art and changing perspectives

Filming Jan Dibbet’s 12 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective, 1969 Jan Dibbets 6 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective, Maasvlakte beach, 8 February 2009 A year ago this week as part of the Portscapes project, the artist Jan Dibbets had what he called a “second attempt” at his 1969 piece 12 Hours Tide Object with Correction [...]

etIntersection: Scenography Expanding

etIntersection Scenography Expanding Symposia 1-3 Riga – Belgrade – Evora 2010 www.intersection.cz Scenography Expanding Invitation and Call for Papers Throughout the past decade, scenographic practice and performance design have continuously moved beyond the black box of the theatre toward a hybrid terrain located at the intersections of theatre, architecture, exhibition, visual arts, and media. This [...]

Wooloo.org | Call to artists

wooloo.org | PARTICIPATE OR DIECall to artists and curators Deadline October 1 2009NEW LIFE COPENHAGENWooloo.org is organizing the people of Copenhagen to open their homes to 5.000 environmental activists during the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Denmark this December.Utilizing this large-scale human meeting as its exhibition platform, the NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN festival invites [...]

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 [...]

Bat-Yam Biennale: Urban Action 2010

Call for ParticipationThe Bat-Yam Biennale is pleased to announce the open call for participation in Urban Action 2010.The Bat-Yam Biennale functions as a laboratory through which attitudes in and towards urban space are examined. Urban Action 2010 continues the urban action begun in the first biennale , in which Hosting was the theme.The 2010 Bat-Yam Biennale invites urban [...]

George Orwell: “all art is propaganda”

There are several curators who have been making the running in laying out the territory of arts’ response to environmental issues, from Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna of the excellent Latitudes to Maja and Reuben Fowkes of translocal.org. There’s a good wide-ranging interview with Maja and Ruben Fowkes in … Go to RSA Arts [...]

Interview about Art and Sustainability « Sustainability and Contemporary Art

Maja and Reuben Fowkes interviewed in Antennae Magazine – the whole issue can be downloaded from their site as a pdf Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, was founded in September 2006 by Giovanni Aloi, a London-based lecturer in history of art and media studies. The Journal combines a heightened level of academic [...]

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