Panel discussion: Art in the Landscape

Join Hauser & Wirth Somerset for a panel discussion exploring issues around outdoor sculpture, and art that relates to its surrounding environment. A panel of leading artists, curators and commissioners including Clare Lilley, Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Robert and Nicky Wilson, co-founders of Jupiter Artland; and artist, Alec Finlay, will be looking… Continue reading Panel discussion: Art in the Landscape

Uranium Film Festivals 2014

Uranium Film Festival India Koordinator Shri Prakash did again a great job. Now the final report about the International Uranium Film Festival 2014 Tour to India was published: Statements, photos, films about nuclear power, uranium mining, atomic bombs, … worth reading! http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/images/documents/INDIA_Uranium_Film_Festival_2014_Report_New_XX.pdf   The next Uranium Film Festivals will take part on Sept. 29. in… Continue reading Uranium Film Festivals 2014

Lines and Nodes: Infrastructure, Media and Aesthetics

Symposium + Film Series September 19–21, 2014, New York A three-day event gathering together artists, scholars and curators examining the mediated and aesthetic dimensions of human-made infrastructures that shape almost every aspect of modern life.  Exploring data centers, oil pipelines, securitized border zones, waste treatment plants and more, 12 presentations and 17 films ask the… Continue reading Lines and Nodes: Infrastructure, Media and Aesthetics

Carbon Bomb Blows Up Near West Point Military Academy (West Point, New York 2014)

Reposted from http://www.toolsforaction.net/carbon-bomb-blows-up-near-west-point/ This september, a 30-foot carbon bomb blew up in the airspace over the Hudson River in front of West Point Military Academy. An inflatable bomb pressurized with carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen contained in outer shell of silver radiant barrier foil, the carbon bomb was manufactured as part of a research program… Continue reading Carbon Bomb Blows Up Near West Point Military Academy (West Point, New York 2014)

If the city were a commons

An alternative arts development programme If the city were a commons what would it look like, taste like, sound like, feel like, and smell like? How would artists and other creative individuals develop their skills and hone their practice? Through a series of artists talks, workshops, field trips, residencies, and reading groups, On Site Projects… Continue reading If the city were a commons

Dance Politics

Dance Politics is about getting into the bodies and to more deeply engage with its movement. Activists and organizers will gather to think and dance with performers and philosophers, bringing the body wisdom into what we know, and how we work in our social movements. How is the body and its ability to express joy… Continue reading Dance Politics

Cologne – Tag des Guten Lebens “Day of the Good Life”

This Sunday, the streets of Cologne-Ehrenfeld will belong only to its residents. Without traffic and lots of free space for encounters and action. “Tell everyone, talk to your neighbours, this day will be what we make of it and if all of us participate!” There will be no cars in the district of Cologne-Ehrenfeld (cf.… Continue reading Cologne – Tag des Guten Lebens “Day of the Good Life”

Report and Resources – GALA Workshop on green issues for the sustainable support of cultural mobility, Berlin (Germany), 12-13 March 2014

Julie’s Bicycle and DutchCulture ¦ TransArtists have developed a partnership dedicated to promoting environmental sustainability and how that can be challenged in practical, ethical, and artistic ways, across arts’ and cultural communities across Europe. Based on the concept of a ‘knowledge alliance’ they  have been building a collaborative project with cultural organizations and artists all over Europe and Georgia.… Continue reading Report and Resources – GALA Workshop on green issues for the sustainable support of cultural mobility, Berlin (Germany), 12-13 March 2014