Author Archives: Sacha Kagan

Research Associate at the Institute of Cultural Theory, Cultural Research and the Arts (ICRA/IKKK), Leuphana University Lüneburg, Sacha Kagan founded the International level of Cultura21, Network for Cultures of Sustainability, as well as the International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST). The focus of his research and cultural work lies in the trans-disciplinary field of arts and (un-)sustainability. Doctor in Philosophy (Leuphana University Lueneburg) with a thesis on the subject of culture, the arts and sustainability under the perspective of complexity ; M.A. in Cultural Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam) ; and Graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux (political sciences).

Isomorphism

ISOMORPHISM is an online art magazine (based in Romania) that publishes on interaction of contemporary art with a wide range of today’s realities. From political philosophies and civil movements to present day nanotechnology and biotechnology implicated in artistic creation the magazine’s subjects include articles, essays, reviews, presentation of ideas, interviews, events and projects. Link: ISOMORPHISM [...]

FLORA URBANA – GREEN ISLAND 2012

Milan Design Week, April 17-22 2012 (Italy) – a project by Claudia Zanfi (director of aMAZElab / Laboratorio del Paesaggio) Garibaldi Train Station, Milan – Opening April 17th at 12 pm The GREEN ISLAND project was created out of the need to bring citizens back to a dimension of greater harmony between the urban fabric [...]

ASEF Report now available: “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”

In 2010, ASEF commissioned research to investigate good practices connecting the arts to initiatives tackling environmental sustainability issues in a number of Asian countries. Titled Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues,  the research project aimed to carefully document case studies that can not only provide inspiration for networking and collaboration between Asia [...]

Talk & Opening: In Context:Public.Art.Ecology – Food Edition – I

Friday, 13th April, 2012 - 6:00 pm onwards – New Delhi Khoj Studios , S-17 Khirkee Extension Works on view till 18th April, 2012  – 11:00 am – 7:00pm In Context: Public.Art.Ecology, Food Edition I is an International Residency with art projects and interventions in public spaces exploring the intersection between art and ecology through the [...]

Eco Values Art Exhibition at 2012 Eco Design Fair in Shanghai

The 2012 Shanghai Eco Design Fair will be held on April 14 from 10:00 to 17:00 at the Cool Docks, 515 Zhongshan South Road, Shanghai. An exterior plaza at the Cool Docks will be devoted to giving the public an opportunity to interact with representatives from Shanghai environmental organizations and NGOs and view an art [...]

Etienne de France – Tales of a Sea Cow

2012, March 30 to June 24 – Parco Arte Vivente, Torino (Italy) Curated by Annick Bureaud – Opening: March 29 at 6.30 pm In a finis terrae like scenery – rarefied, cold and blurring – takes place the story of a scientific team engaged in a field research across the seas of Iceland and Greenland, [...]

The Future Is Not What It Used to Be

The Future Is Not What It Used to Be, curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo, is on display in the Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery at Trinity University, San Antonio, TX (USA) until  April 7, 2012. The exhibition features works by thirteen artists exploring human incursion on the landscape. Through a variety of media, these [...]

ecoartscotland in Tent at ECA – 6-10 March

Reposted from eco/art/scot/land ecoartscotland will be in residence in the Tent space at Edinburgh College of Art, during the week 6-10 March 2012. Art, Space & Nature students and staff have worked with ecoartscotland to develop a programme of discussions and events during the week:

“Pumping” at Adamski Gallery in Berlin

Solo exhibition by Joel Tauber – from March 6 to April 28 Joel Tauber is Assistant Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. His installation is “looking at a period that seems remarkably similar to our own – the end of the 19th century in America”. The artist says about his project: During my research [...]

Sustainability in Theater: People, Planet, Profit, Purpose

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), April 30 – May 1, 2012 This event will address the question “How can we tangibly change the way we run our theaters to ensure we survive and have a significant positive impact on our environment and community?” Presenting organizations include: Broadway Green Alliance (New York): helped convert 97% of Broadway’s marquees [...]

2012 iLAND Symposium

New-York, USA, March 23-24, 2012 Wollman Hall at The New School | 65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor Tickets: $5 – $25 (Sliding Scale) The 2012 iLAND Symposium will be entitled: Moving Into the Out There: Indeterminacy and Improvisation in Performance and Environmental Practice. This event is an open forum for exploring new methods of [...]

Everything Forever Now: eco-design exhibition

Bangkok, until March 18, 2012 The British Council in Bangkok in collaboration with the Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) presents the exhibition “Everything Forever Now: Designs for a sustainable future”, a showcase of new approaches and innovations in sustainable design by contemporary designers and architects. More information on Culture360.org: Click here

Between art and environment: Case studies from Thailand, Malaysia and India

The case studies are part of an Asia-Europe Foundation commissioned research project entitled “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”. Thailand: In Doi Saket, an artists’ residency programme brings together local communities and artists to reflect on diverse facets of everyday life to gain a more open perspective about their positions in the [...]

Urban Furrows

As part of Maribor 2012, European Capital of Culture, the “Urban Furrows” programme includes several projects such as “Sustainable Local Supply” (promoting short economic circuits between food production and consumption), a seed library for local plant species and the “Rhizome collective” aiming to empower immigrants and jobless workers, among other projects. Read more on Culture360.org: [...]