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26.01.2012
Land Art Mongolia 2012 | call for artists
MONGOLIA 360° 2nd Land Art Biennial Open Call 2012. Organised in August 2012 in the Gobi desert, the Biennial offers a residency to artists wanting to interact with the unique nature reserve environment and to discuss what Land Art can reveal about Art & Politics.
Deadline for submissions is the 30th of January 2012.
Reposted from Culture360.org – more details on this webpage
Also to be read on Culture360: an article entitled “Between art and environment: a Mongolian case study” (click here to read)
26.01.2012
Invitation to participate in an Earth Forum with Shelley Sacks
Berlin
20th-24th of February, 2012
Within the framework of the Citizen Art Days Shelley Sacks offers twice a day the possibility to take part in an Earth Forum „Social Sculpture“ Process at the Freies Museum_öffentlicher Raum Berlin. From February 20th to 24th, in each case from 11 am to 2 pm and 3 to 6 pm, people are given the opportunity to create a humane and ecologically just future in groups of 8 to 12.
Artist and former scholar of Joseph Beuys, Shelley Sacks, invites people of every age and background to a process of creative imagination and exchange in order to bring room for new approaches of thought and action into being. After building an awareness in the group, the focus shall be put on questions directly related to the environment, the neighborhood, the city of Berlin and even the world.
Everyone is invited to participate in the Earth Forum process, whether as an individual or as a network of individuals and organisations who have diverse interests or as an organisation or group of individuals who have similar aims and views of sustainable development, but may have different ideas of how to achieve these aims.
25.01.2012
Workshop/Conference: Volunteering in times of crisis
Valencia
March 2 and 3, 2012
RECREATURA is a non-profit organisation supporting innovative and creative art projects in order to support an active European citizenship. The two-day conference concerning “Volunteering in times of crisis” takes place on March 2 and 3, 2012 and aims to promote volunteering in European cities. Against the backdrop of the consequences from the recent crisis and high unemployment especially among young people in Spain, the conference will discuss the effects of the crisis on active citizenship and volunteering.
25.01.2012
Plasticities Sciences Arts
“Plasticities Sciences Arts” is an association based in France, operating at the transdisciplinary crossroads of art and science. As expressed by its president, Marc-Williams Debono, “the PSA research group aims at opening new fields of interaction between sciences, arts and humanities. The group has its origins in 1994 when it established a Transdisciplinary network of researchers focusing on the nature of evolutionary processes. The identity of the group is founded on both knowledge and human experience as on the suggestion of the concept of plasticity. The latter is considered to be the basic principle underlying the organization of any life form, art or idea.”
The group’s website contains valuable online resources including news items, activities and publications, and the online Journal Plastir, which is on open access (i.e. freely accessible). The latest issue of Plastir (25) was released in December 2011.
The website (in English and in French) of “Plasticities Sciences Arts” and Plastir is accessible at: http://plasticites-sciences-arts.org/
24.01.2012
Designing for the Divide: A Conference on Community Action Across Lines of Difference
West Virginia University
March the 23rd & 24th, 2012
In almost every issue concerning for example governance, the environment, economic development or healthcare, the lacking ability to communicate, cooperate and compromise obstructs the successful and effective addressing of challenges.
This conference aims to present ideas that help build a bridge in order to reduce social differences with the help of communication design, service design, user experience design, social science and partners in civic engagement. Among others projects, media innovations and citizen brigades will contribute their share to this reduction. The conference will also schedule workshops and planning sessions to jump start some of those ideas.
23.01.2012
Land Art Generator Initiative design competition
New York
The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) aims at designing public art installations that have an additional benefit of large scale clean energy generation. Each sculpture can continuously distribute clean energy into the electrical grid and thus potentially provide power to thousands of homes.
In 2012 the Land Art Generator Initiative holds a design competition for a site within Freshkills Park (the former Fresh Kills Landfill) together with New York City’s Department of Parks & Recreation in New York City.
22.01.2012
ECOPSYCHOLOGY & NATURAL CHANGE COURSES in 2012
Scotland
The purpose of the ecoSelf project is for people to find a sense of ecological identity and based on that to live in ecological balance.
In order to find this ecological identity, people have to face the fact that humankind is part of the Earth’s wider ecology, thus stands in constant interdependence with nature. This knowledge can contribute to personal healing because the individual can be healed as part of the larger body of the Earth.
Since wild nature seems to provide a powerful context for processes of ecological Self realisation, David Key uses it as a basis for his courses and projects. He provides professional development courses to help people learn how to facilitate ecological Self realisation programmes.
20.01.2012
Call for Submissions: VIII International Triennial of Eco-Poster
Ukraine
The International Triennial of Eco-Poster is organized for the eighths time by the Ukrainian Association of Graphic Designers to showcase significant achievements on the field of ecological topics of the world design community. The Association of graphic designers «4th Block» was founded in 2002 in order to bring together Ukrainian graphic designers, who deal with and care about social, environmental and ecological problems. It was named after the forth block of Chernobyl. As a member of ICOGRADA it contributes to uniting graphic designers from all over the world.
The organising committee of the Triennial seeks posters created between 2009 and 2012 of 60×90 cm or larger to be submitted by e-mail to association4block [at] gmail [dot] com
The deadline for Submissions is February the 1st, 2012.
19.01.2012
Call for proposals: Kunstbroedplaats 2012 – DRIFT
Marknesse, the Netherlands
May to December 2012
The former Hydrodynamic Laboratory Waterloopbos hosts in 2012 DRIFT, a contemporary visual art project dealing with transformation. It is the fourth art in nature project of Rerun Productions Foundation, that is a non-profit organization that puts its focus to cultural and social issues in publications and art projects.
16.01.2012
Conference: Radius of art
Berlin
8th – 9th of February 2012
The international conference „Radius of art: Creative politicization of the public sphere /Cultural potential forces for social transformation“ takes place in Berlin on the 8th and 9th of February. It puts artistic and cultural projects into the focus of of the political discourse. The purposeful choice of speakers and creative artists from all over the world as well as the contribution of renowned cultural foundations, promoters of culture and innovative approaches promise an inspiring exchange.
15.01.2012
Julie’s Bicycle
London
Julies Bicycle is a non-profit company working in the field of environmental sustainability. Its aim is to help integrate it into the business, art and ethics of the music, theatre and creative industries and reduce carbon emissions.
It provides expertise in environmental sustainability to over 350 organisations in the UK as well as internationally and offers practical advice, tools, resources and Industry Green environmental certification and is able to get back at world-leading research on the environmental impacts of the creative industries.
Julies Bicycle works together with NGO’s and cultural organisations. The campaigns are focused products and activities of the creative industries and see the best way of tackling climate change is to reduce the impacts instead of just talking about it. Examples for the campaign are among others Better Batteries, which aims to increase the use of rechargeable battery systems, and CD packaging, which reduces the impacts of CD packaging by up to 95%. Furthermore Julies Bicycle is promoting the use of renewable power provision to festivals.
It creates active links between the various networks and consortia to support the sharing of knowledge and ideas and the rapid adoption of best practice.
Further information can be found here.
13.01.2012
SurVivArt – Art for the Right to a Good Life
Berlin
7th to 24th of February 2012
From the 7th to the 24th of February the exhibition SurVivArt – Art For the Right to a «Good Life» takes place at the galleries Mikael Andersen and Meinblau in Berlin.
International artists from Ethiopia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Thailand and the Czech Republic were invited to do a reflection on the meaning of the right to a «Good Life». From these reflections arose various works of art and related communications on what the “good life“ means to them and people around them. Often the project started off the communication between artists and local communities about sustainable practices in their home country. The artworks touch upon many aspects of our everyday life: Habitation, food, clothes as well as consumption. The works will be shown at the exhibition, which opens at the 5th of February.
12.01.2012
Conference: Probing the Skin
Jena
24th to 26th of April 2013
From April the 24th to April the 26th 2013 the conference “Probing the Skin: Cultural representations of Our Contact Zone” takes place at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena.
The organizers Prof. Caroline Rosenthal and Prof. Dirk Vanderbeke aks for submission of papers including artistic reflections of skin related themes in literature, art, media studies, and anthropology.
