Projects

13.09.2012

Sideways – Moving On

Upon arrival after a four week journey, the Moving On symposium investigates wayfaring as an artistic and spatial practice.

14-15 September 2012 – De Lieteberg, Zuurbroekstraat 16, 3690 Zutendaal, Belgium

Sideways is a translocal, experimental festival for contemporary art and cultural research, exploring non-motorized paths and trails folded into the spaces of everyday life. This first-time event unfolds ‘in the open’ and ‘on the go’. The backbone of the festival is a 4 week expedition on foot through Belgium, from West to East, between August 17th and September 17th 2012. In resonance with the artistic program, the Moving On symposium provides a collaborative meeting ground at the crossroads of contemporary art, the study of mobilities and sustainability, experimental geography, spatial praxis and urban or rural activism. Read more »

By Sacha Kagan

30.07.2012

Mus’Art Cameroon seeks to twin with arts institution

Since its creation in 1996 Musa Heritage Gallery (shortened Mus’Art), named in memory of Nso’ carvers Daniel Kanjo Musa and his elder son John Yuniwo Musa, has been active in propagating the Nso’ cultural heritage.

This cultural initiative by the Musa family opened her doors to the public on 18th December, 1996. Mus’Art Gallery has a collection of over 400 objects, most of which were created between 1970 and 2000. These varied and diverse objects range from Bamboo work to Wood Carvings, Basketry to Pottery. The museum continues to acquire contemporary Cameroonian arts and crafts while maintaining a major focus on the Western Grass-fields region.

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By Luis Bravo

16.07.2012

Time of the Clock, Time of Encounter

The aim of the project is to change the way people think about temporality. The group believes that arts and humanities have particular forms of knowledge around temporality that are of potential use to communities.

This project investigates the difference between the time of the clock and the lived time of experience. We live in a world dominated by the time of the clock, yet many aspects of life have a different rhythm and temporality. The time of community, especially, is very often more complex and differentiated that standardised clock time.

A co-inquiry of researchers from a range of disciplines in the arts and humanities and practitioners in community organisations will explore ways by which communities can acquire a more open and diversified relation to time; they will approach this question both from a theoretical point of view as well as from a practice- and intervention-based point of view. As such the project will make a significant contribution to developing a concrete ethics and culture of temporal diversity.

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By Luis Bravo

14.07.2012

Sustainia100 – 100 sustainable solutions

Sustainia is a consortium of partners representing civil society, businesses and experts. The concept of “Sustainia” is developed by the Scandinavian think tank Monday Morning in a collaborative effort with global companies and foundations.

It is a concept for communicating a sustainable future based on concrete and tangible know-how and technologies – a global collaborative platform for building a model and vision for a sustainable future. The model of Sustainia represents best practice, knowledge and technologies that already exist. It is inspired and designed by world leading companies, institutions and experts.

Sustainia100 was launched at  Rio+20, in the first edition, they guide you through solutions from 56 countries on six continents. From solar power in Sudan, to sustainable fashion in Switzerland; from water-cooling in Canada to solar-cooling in Singapore; from buses in Brazil, to smart buildings in Sydney.

The solutions they present have been organized  into sections for the citizen; the CEO; the advocate; the engineer; the venture capitalist; and the politician. They also clearly say which sector (buildings, food, fashion, etc.) each solution impacts, and how each solution benefits economic, social, and environmental sustainability.

You can find more information visiting Sustainia´s website.
By Luis Bravo

24.02.2012

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: Click here

By Sacha Kagan

10.02.2012

5×5 Project of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

District of Columbia (USA)
March 5 to April 27, 2012

The temporary public art project 5×5 of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities was established in order to result in twenty-five public art installations in different locations in the District of Columbia this spring. Five highly-experienced and innovative contemporary art curators were selected to work together with 5 artist on the development of artworks, which will enliven publicly accessible spaces and show creativity and artistic expression to neighborhoods across the District. The aim of the project is to create public awareness for art in interplay with the neighborhood and to mirror the identity of the city in the artworks. The installations can be seen from March 5th to April 27th, 2012. Read more »

By Janna Gehrke

08.02.2012

Visions for Water – Ecological Artists Modeling Solutions for our Challenged Water Systems

New York
February 11, 2012

On Saturday, February 11, 2012, ecoartspace presents the panel discussion Visions for Water at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, NYC (USA). In the discussion ecological artists like Lillian Ball, Jackie Brookner, Betsy Damon and Aviva Rahmani try to model solutions for the challenged water systems. The panel is scheduled for 1 pm and ends at 3 pm.
In parallel there is also an exhibition with the theme The Value of Water: Sustaining a Green Planet at the Cathedral until March 25, 2012. The curator of the exhibition, Fredericka Foster, will give an introduction to the panel discussion.

For more information see http://www.stjohndivine.org/waterpanel.html ; in order to register and participate, send a mail to amy [at] ecoartspace [dot] org.

By Janna Gehrke

03.02.2012

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945

by Isao Hashimoto

A beautiful but undeniably scary timelapse-map of nuclear explosions by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto can be seen in the following video. It shows with sound and numbers the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998.

Hashimoto started the project in 2003 in order to show “the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.”
Isao HASHIMOTO studied at Department of Arts, Policy and Management of Musashino Art University, Tokyo and is currently working for the Lalique Museum as a curator.

For more information about the artist see http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/

By Janna Gehrke

30.01.2012

Partnering for the Climate: An Artist/Scientist Mixer

New York, The Noguchi Museum
Sunday, February 12, 2012, 3 pm
In times of climate change and global warming individuals as well as communities are confronted with fragmented, confusing and often overwhelming news and data about these themes. In order to make sense of these facts the largely disconnected linking between art, research and the public has to find a way to spark new relationships and thus make a difference.
Artists and scientists need to partner up and combine science with interpretive media. In a Noguchi Museum event co-sponsored by positive Feedback, artists as well as scientists are invited to initiate new and meaningful relationships regarding climate change.
The event will provide stimulating discussion and time for exchanging with fellow artists, scientists, and community members active in climate change issues in New York City.
For further information see http://www.positivefeedbackusa.org/schedule-of-events/

By Janna Gehrke

29.01.2012

SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL (USA)

New York (USA)
February 25th, 2012

An All-Day Wonder Cabinet

On Saturday, February 25th, 2012 from 10:45 am till 9:30 pm, the New York Institute of the Humanities and The New Jersey Institute of Technology present SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL at the NYU’s Cantor Film Center in New York.
David Rothenberg talks with scientists and artists about his new book Survival of the Beautiful, which examines the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. Read more »

By Janna Gehrke

28.01.2012

Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution (UK)

with David Rothenberg and Jay Griffiths

Watershed, Bristol (UK)
16 February 2012, 19.30-20.30

On the 16th of February 2012 David Rothenberg talks with scientists and artists about his new book Survival of the Beautiful, which examines the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. In it the philosopher and musician Rothenberg deals with the questions, why animals have innate appreciation for beauty and why nature is beautiful.
On the 16th of February the question of how art has influenced science is investigated by him and his guests.
Above that, is asked what we can learn from the amazing range of animal aesthetic behaviour about animals and about ourselves.
David Rothenberg will be in conversation with writer and commentator Jay Griffiths, whose books include Wild: An Elemental Journey.
The event is topped of with music by David Rothenberg and Jaron Lanier and free and open to the public.
For further information about the event or in order to book tickets, see http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/?p=2500

For more information about David Rothenberg: www.davidrothenberg.net and about Jay Griffiths: www.jaygriffiths.com

By Janna Gehrke

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. Read more »

By Janna Gehrke

10.01.2012

Review: Encounter with Giovanni Impastato

On the 2nd of November 2011 the Sicilian Giovanni Impastato, who fights against the mafia, was invited in Düsseldorf and Cologne, in order to present his book Resistere a Mafiopoli (Resist Mafiopolis) at the Heinrich-Heine-University and at the Filmhaus Cologne. In this book Giovanni Impastato tells the story of his brother Peppino Impastato to the music journalist Franco Vassia (co-editor). Peppino Impastato was an activist in the fight against the mafia and was murdered by the Cosa nostra in 1978. After the death of his older brother Giovanni Impastato went on fighting against the mafia together with his friends and family.
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By Janna Gehrke

17.12.2011

Aardwerk: PDC course in 2012

Netherlands (Special Municipality of Sint Eustatius)
Aardwerk: PDC course in 2012

For the time from the 1st of May to the 21st of May 2012, Aardwerk offers an international PDC course in a remote place, so that participants are able to see their environment in a new way. Instead of offering ready-made solutions, the course enables its participants to face the everyday challenges as well as the long term challenges they are faced with through their own strenghts and the collective intelligence of the group. The courses aim is to provide a new way of thinking: Rather than seeing problems, participants will be able to see opportunities. Read more »

By Janna Gehrke

15.12.2011

People Unite for the Future We Want

New York
December 16th

On Friday, the 16th of December from 1pm-6pm  environmental, youth, and social justice groups from all over the world will unite in order to claim a true and lasting change for people and for the planet. Therefore they will take action while the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development preparatory meetings take place.
You are invited to join one of the events held around New York City to support public engagement in Rio+20 processes and issues.
For more information about the events see http://blog.humanimpactsinstitute.org/2011/12/people-unite-for-the-future-we-want/

By Janna Gehrke