Artists from all countries are invited to send a proposal for a site-specific outdoor sculpture installation to be created during a 26-day artist in residency (April 11 – May 7, 2012) in Cheng Long, a small rural village near the southwestern coast of Taiwan in Kouhu Township,Yunlin County. This art project is an expansion of
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This post comes to you from Green Public Art continued from… PUBLIC ART and LEED – Energy & Atmosphere MATERIALS & RESOURCES Recycled Content – should be self explanatory. Use post-industrial or post-consumer recycled materials Regional Materials –means all materials used in a project are sources within 500 miles of project site The Ivy Project, led by Sharon Kallis, was a community-involved public programming initiative born out of the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project. Vancouver artist Sharon Kallis works with unwanted natural materials. Through engaging local community in common handwork, unwanted materials are re-purposed into something new, creating opportunities for individuals to connect with nature Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of art around these days questioning our relationship with the natural world and the creatures that live in it. Arts Catalyst’s extraordinaryInterspecies series last year contained a series of works in which artists “collaborated” with animals in disturbing ways that disrupted our conventional ideas of the co-dependency What I’m reading right now…. This is from a great essay on Richard Long by Richard MacFarlane in the Summer 2009 issue of Tate, Etc.: To my mind, his work is best understood as a set of persistently childish acts: the outcomes of a brilliantly unadulterated being-in-the-world. The word kindergarten was coined in |
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