Yearly Archives: 2015

Creative Responses to Sustainability | Singapore Guide launched!

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ASEF culture360 is proud to launch Creative Responses to Sustainability – Singapore Guide.

Creative Responses to Sustainability is part of a new series of guides looking at creative responses to sustainability in different countries in Asia. The first in the series, the Singapore Guide maps cultural initiatives across Singapore engaging with social and environmental issues. Commissioned by ASEF culture360 and authored by Yasmine Ostendorf, the initiator of the EU funded network Green Art Lab Alliance (GALA), this guide will feature a directory of the 20 most pioneering and significant cultural organisations in Singaporecontributing to social and environmental change through their artistic practice.

The second guide for Korea has been presented this month in Gwangju, Korea at the 8th ASEF Public Forum on Creative Cities in Asia and Europe – Cities: Living Labs for Culture? and will be soon available for free download on ASEF culture360. Research for the Korea and Singapore Guides is supported by the Mondriaan Fund. Other country guides will follow in 2016.

These new guides build on the discussions at the GALA / Green Art Lab Alliance and ASEF’s engagement with the topic of artists and climate change in global dialogues around environmental sustainability through itsConnect2Culture programme (2008-2011).

Images of humanity and climate change to illuminate St. Peter’s Basilica | Obscura

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VATICAN CITY, Dec. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — On Dec. 8, a humanitarian coalition comprised of Paul G. Allen’sVulcan Inc., the Li Ka Shing Foundation and Okeanos, in partnership with The Oceanic Preservation Society andObscura Digital, and under the auspices of the World Bank Group‘s Connect4Climate initiative, will present a gift of contemporary public art entitled “Fiat Lux: Illuminating our Common Home” to Pope Francis on the opening day of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. At this unprecedented and historic event, beautiful images of our shared natural world will be projected onto the façade of St. Peter’s Basilica in a contemporary work of public art that tells the visual story of the interdependency of humans and life on earth with the planet, in order to educate and inspire change around the climate crisis across generations, cultures, languages, religions and class.

The large-scale architectural public art installation is inspired by the themes of climate change, human dignity and the earth’s living creatures in the Encyclical “Laudato Si’” of Pope Francis. Programmed to coincide not only with the Jubilee, but also with COP21 inParis, the historic occasion will call on citizens of the world to join a global movement to protect our common home. The projection can be viewed live by those at St. Peter’s Basilica and via live global television broadcasts and online streaming.

The cinematic event will feature the work of some of the world’s most notable humanistic and nature photographers and filmmakers including Sebastião Salgado and (Genesi and Contrasto), Joel Sartore (National Geographic Photo Ark), Yann Arthus Bertrand(Human), David Doubilet, Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson(Samsara), Howard Hall, Shawn Heinrichs, Greg Huglin, Chris Jordan,Steve McCurry, Paul Nicklen and Louie Schwartzberg. The projection is curated by Louie Psihoyos and Travis Threlkel, and produced by Obscura Digital.

Fiat Lux: Illuminating our Common Home
Dec. 8, 2015 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. CET

St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City

For media inquiries, please contact: OurCommonHome@Vulcan.com

To view the live stream of the event, for real time updates and to download press materials, including images and videos, please visit:OurCommonHome.World

#OurCommonHome

Carole Tomko, Vice President of Vulcan, Inc., adds, “It is an immense honor to participate in the partnership that is bestowing this gift to Pope Francis, with whom our founder Paul Allen shares a common vision for the protection of our treasured natural world.” She continues, “It is our hope that this beautiful and contemporary work of public art will inspire citizens of the world to join together in a moment of compassion and to activate a global movement to protect humankind, our common home and precious endangered species.”

Li Ka-shing says, “It is a great honor to be a part of ‘Fiat Lux: Illuminating our Common Home.’ It is our hope that this project will inspire reflection, rekindling our quest for spiritual and scientific wisdom, renewing our hope and steadfastness. While science and technology can broaden human perspective, it is only through love that humanity can prevail. That is why it is such a privilege to participate in this project here, at the very nexus of the philosophy of brotherly love. We are humbled and grateful for the opportunity.”

Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group, states, “We are honored to be working with the Vatican to raise awareness of an issue so critical to our shared goal of ending extreme poverty. The poorest people in the world are disproportionately affected by the effects of a warming climate and are most vulnerable to natural disasters and extreme weather. This impressive initiative will draw global attention to the urgency of tackling climate change for the sake of people and our planet.”

Lucia Grenna, Program Manager of the World Bank Group‘s Connect4Climate global partnership program, adds, “We are proud to support the realization of this gift of art to Pope Francis and to work with our creative partners to highlight the biggest issues facing mankind: poverty and climate change. This artistic display will tell a powerful visual story of the interdependency of all life on earth with our environment and we hope inspire the teams in Paris to push for the most ambitious deal possible.”

ABOUT THE PARTNERS

VULCAN INC.

Vulcan Inc. creates and advances a variety of world-class endeavors and high-impact initiatives that change and improve the way people live, learn, do business and experience the world. Founded in 1986 by investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen, Vulcanoversees various business and charitable projects including real estate holdings, investments in dozens of companies, including the Seattle Seahawks NFL, Seattle Sounders FC Major League Soccer, and Portland Trail Blazers NBA franchises, First & Goal Inc., the Seattle Cinerama theatre, Experience Music Project, the Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Allen Institute for Cell Science, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and Vulcan Productions. Vulcan Productions produces compelling feature films, television series, specials, digital content and outreach initiatives designed to inspire people to take action on the critical issues of our time. For more information, visitwww.vulcan.com.

LI KA SHING FOUNDATION

Established in 1980 by Mr. Li Ka-shing, the Li Ka Shing Foundation (LKSF) has three strategic focuses: nurture a new culture of giving; support education reform initiatives; and advance medical research and services. Mr. Li considers the Foundation to be his “third son” and has pledged one-third of his assets to it. With initiatives spread over 19 countries and regions, LKSF supports projects that promote social progress through expanding access to quality education and medical services and research, encouraging cultural diversity and community involvement. Since its inception, LKSF has granted over HK$17 billion, 87 percent of which benefit projects in the Greater Chinaregion.

ABOUT OKEANOS — FOUNDATION FOR THE SEA

The Okeanos — Foundation for the Sea is focusing its attention on individuals and communities that are taking action and making positive steps to heal the oceans and to reconnect humankind with the sea. Okeanos encourages discussions and actions through documentary films that they either produce or finance. However, their main focus lies on the development and funding of practical projects worldwide, with a focus on the Pacific, where they also supported the projects of Pacific Voyagers Charitable Trust. For more information, please visitwww.okeanos-foundation.org.

WORLD BANK GROUP/ CONNECT4CLIMATE

The World Bank Group plays a key role in the global effort to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. It consists of five institutions: the World Bank, including the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA); the International Finance Corporation (IFC); the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA); and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Working together in more than 100 countries, these institutions provide financing, advice, and other solutions that enable countries to address the most urgent challenges of development. For more information, please visit www.worldbank.org, www.miga.org, and www.ifc.org.

Connect4Climate (C4C) is the World Bank Group’s climate communication program dedicated to driving global action on climate change, connecting and amplifying climate initiatives and activities, and creating social currency and political capital for climate action. It works with more than 300 partner organizations around the world, and is funded by the World Bank, the Italian Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea, and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). For more information: www.connect4climate.org

OBSCURA

Obscura is a creative studio headquartered in the heart of San Francisco’s Dogpatch district. Since 2000, they have created one-of-a-kind immersive experiences worldwide. With a team of 60 full-time artists and technologists, its work transforms physical spaces and connects deeply and inspires its audiences. Its clients are pioneers: forward-thinking corporations, cultural dignitaries, and global changemakers.

OCEANIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY (OPS)

The Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS), an independent non-profit organization, uses film, photography, collaboration, and social media – one “exposure” at a time – to educate, inspire, and empower the global community to become change agents that are actively engaged in saving and preserving the oceans, endangered species, and our planet. OPS’s first film, The Cove, has won dozens of awards around the world, including the Oscar® for Best Documentary in 2009, and inspired over a million people to action.

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meld is an ongoing interactive global art platform and collaborative catalyst to commission, produce and present ground-breaking and evocative works of art embedded in the issues and consequences of climate change. meld invites exceptional artists and innovative thinkers dedicated to the moving image and committed to fostering awareness and education to join us in our campaign for social change. Through a collaborative dialogue, we hope to provoke new perceptions, broaden awareness and education and find creative solutions concerning climate change, its consequences and its solutions.

meld was formed by a devoted group of individuals guided by a passionate belief in the power of art to convey personal experience and cultivate social progress. meld is inspired by the idea that when art melds into the public realm, it has the power to reach people beyond the traditional limitations of class, age, race and education and encourage public action.

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Call for Designers: Intervening in the Anthropo(s)cene: Probes_Actions_Encounters

Open Calls

CALLING ALL PERFORMANCE DESIGNERS

(architects, artists, theorists, scenographers etc.)

Preamble Tasmanian climes before attending the PSI#22 Conference in Melbourne 2016

As a global warm-up to PSi#22 Performance Climates, 6-9 July 2016, at the University of Melbourne, the PSi Performance+Design working group (PSi_P+DWG) are organizing a 5-day international symposium/workshop in Tasmania, hosted by UTAS Creative Exchange Institute, June 29th – 3rd July: arriving in Hobart 28th and departing 4th July.

Intervening in the Anthropo(s)cene:

Probes_Actions_Encounters

We are inviting expressions of interest through a 250 word bio encapsulating researcher background and research focus as well as a 250 word proposal for probes, projects, praxis sessions and provocations to the theme and detailing outlined below. All proposals will be peer reviewed and should be submitted via email to conveners: Dorita Hannah (Dorita.Hannah@utas.edu.au) and Beth Weinstein (bmw99@u.arizona.edu) by 15 December 2015.

ANTHROPO(S)CENIC INTERVENTIONS

  • How can art, design and events contribute to redrawing maps differently to represent comings and goings, meetings and partings, in order register essential actions that incubate sociality?
  • How can we delicately probe environments in order to dislocate and then relocate our thinking about location? And how can we probe climes to critically recalibrate tempo and tempus?
  • How can we free our senses to occupy landscapes differently, not as distanced passive spectators but as immersed mobile bodies, creatively endowing our inherited environments and despoiled shores to uncover more transversal dialogues and meaning?

The objective is to explore and propose more meaningful understandings of landscapes – too often presented as distanced, picturesque and apolitical – as harbouring profoundly sonic, tactile, redolent and flavourful qualities. However, while they resonate with their own ancient spatiotemporal qualities, landscapes are more and more affected by recent histories to a point where human activities are now significantly impacting on the Earth’s ecosystems. This topical notion of the anthropocene requires we participate through greater immersive and sensory engagement with our natural environment rather than via the spectacle of a distanced vista: mindful of the part we play within the multiple and fragile ecologies of our lived world: minimizing the binary opposition between nature and culture and acknowledging that landscapes are a fabricated environments and significant public space. The fleeting event becomes a research tool for testing potential engagements between technology and geography, data and substance, intellect and perception, art events and the landscape as an event. This gathering adopts a tangential and critical approach to design by regarding the landscape as gallery, laboratory, and collaborator, thereby undertaking a form of creative acupuncture as performative intervention.

Outcomes of this collaborative event will be performatively shared at PSi#22 during the Performance+Design working group session.  At PSi#22 we will also hold a PSi_P+DWG meeting to brainstorm future events, research, projects, and platform (physical and virtual) to support a dynamic working group.

We encourage symposium participants to also submit papers for presentations to PSi#22.

Please join PSi to submit your paper for the PSi#22 conference.

REQUESTS FOR QUALIFICATIONS – CURRENT:LA WATER Production Manager and Program Providers

Open Calls

TWO OPPORTUNITIES - REQUESTS FOR QUALIFICATIONS [RFQ]

CURRENT:LA WATER CALL FOR PRODUCTION MANAGER – DUE DEC 14, 2015 at 1PM
CURRENT:LA WATER CALL FOR PUBLIC PROGRAM PROVIDERS – DUE DEC 14, 2015 at 1PM

CALL FOR PRODUCTION MANAGER

LOS ANGELES LAUNCHES FIRST PUBLIC ART BIENNIAL

SUMMER 2016

CITY of LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT of CULTURAL AFFAIRS

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

BACKGROUND

In June 2015, the City of Los Angeles was selected as one of four cities to receive up to $1 million as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge, a new program to support temporary public art projects that celebrate creativity, enhance urban identity, encourage public-private partnerships and drive economic development. LA’s winning project, CURRENT:LA Water, will establish the City’s first Public Art Biennial for Los Angeles.

Developed by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Public Art Division, CURRENT:LA is an ongoing, biannual temporary public art initiative that aims to establish a new paradigm for public art in Los Angeles, one that is transformative and contributes to the creation of social capital and public discourse on shared issues locally, nationally, and globally. CURRENT:LA seeks to maximize the potential for public art to create dialogue and help change how we understand and respond to those issues. The inaugural presentation will respond to the issue of water and take place for one month in late summer 2016. Led by DCA’s Public Art Division, the initiative will utilize public sites throughout LA to present temporary public artworks and public programming to generate civic discourse on the issue of water and allied topics such as infrastructure, drought, ecology, and conservation, among others.

DESCRIPTION OF OPPORTUNITY

Through this Request for Qualifications (RFQ), DCA is seeking submissions from qualified production management professionals, including individuals, teams and firms, to oversee all technical and operational aspects as required for fifteen (15) CURRENT:LAWater sites located throughout the City of Los Angeles. The selected respondent will be awarded a City contract to provide services in consultation with DCA, City representatives and other City contractors including visual artists, public program providers and a location manager.

ELIGIBILITY

This RFQ is open to professional production management individuals, teams and firms based in the County of Los Angeles, and with at least five (5) consecutive years of paid experience in production management in an external environment. Employees of the City of Los Angeles are ineligible to apply.

For further details please refer to the full RFQ document available online.

The deadline for proposal submissions is  Monday, December 14, 2015.

CALL FOR PUBLIC PROGRAM PROVIDERS

LOS ANGELES LAUNCHES FIRST PUBLIC ART BIENNIAL

SUMMER 2016

CITY of LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT of CULTURAL AFFAIRS

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

BACKGROUND

In June 2015, the City of Los Angeles was selected as one of four cities to receive up to $1 million as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge, a new program to support temporary public art projects that celebrate creativity, enhance urban identity, encourage public-private partnerships and drive economic development. LA’s winning project, CURRENT:LA Water, will establish the City’s first Public Art Biennial for Los Angeles.

Developed by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Public Art Division, CURRENT:LA is an ongoing, biannual temporary public art initiative that aims to establish a new paradigm for public art in Los Angeles, one that is transformative and contributes to the creation of social capital and public discourse on shared issues locally, nationally, and globally. CURRENT:LA seeks to maximize the potential for public art to create dialogue and help change how we understand and respond to those issues. The inaugural presentation will respond to the issue of water and take place for one month in late summer 2016. Led by DCA’s Public Art Division, the initiative will utilize public sites throughout LA to present temporary public artworks and public programming to generate civic discourse on the issue of water and allied topics such as infrastructure, drought, ecology, and conservation, among others.

DESCRIPTION OF OPPORTUNITY

Through this Request for Qualifications (RFQ), DCA is seeking submissions from nonprofit organizations, individual artists and artist teams interested in developing and executing free public programs that will offer LA’s diverse residents and visitors a range of unique opportunities for engagement with water-related issue(s) and/or the temporary public art projects commissioned from other artists/teams as part of CURRENT:LA Water. Each public program selected to receive a funding award as a result of this RFQ will be presented at a site located within the City of Los Angeles for a maximum duration/time-frame of one (1) month. The public programs selected for CURRENT:LA Water may include a variety of pop-up programming approaches such as workshops, discussions, film/video screenings, mobile activities, performances, readings, speakers and/or symposia.

ELIGIBILITY

This RFQ is open to nonprofit organizations in any field, individual artists, and artist teams based in the County of Los Angeles. Respondents selected through this RFQ will be eligible to receive, but are not guaranteed, funding awards for public programs to be presented as part of CURRENT:LA Water. Artist team members and project team member(s) for a nonprofit organization may not change prior to the execution of a commissioned public program. Nonprofit organizations, artists and artist teams pre-qualified for other DCA-administered public art opportunities, or active DCA grantees, are not prevented from responding to this RFQ. Employees of the City of Los Angeles are ineligible.

For further details please refer to the full RFQ document available online.

The deadline for proposal submissions is Monday, December 14, 2015.