Tag Archives: UK

Ecocide

Cathy Fitzgerald published on her blog “An Arts and Ecology Notebook” an interesting long post about enforcing the legal notion of “ecocide”, and about the work of UK legal barrister (and performer of mock trials) Polly Higgins, who defines ecocide as follows: “Ecocide is the extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystem(s) of [...]

JALAN JATI (TEAK ROAD)

On show at the John Hope Gallery Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (UK) until July 7th 2013 The results of three years of research and production, the interdisciplinary exhibition from Singapore, Jalan Jati (Teak Road) opened at the Edinburgh Science Festival on 21 March 2013 and runs at the John Hope Gallery Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh until July 2013. Jalan Jati (Teak Road) [...]

Eden3: Trees are the Language of Landscape

Exhibition – April 22 to May 25, 2013 Tent Gallery, in Art Space and Nature – Edinburgh College of Art – Evolution House (corner of Westport and Lady Lawson Street) – Edinburgh, EH1 2LE, Scotland Hours: Tues-Fri 12noon to 4:45PM or by appointment on Saturday. The Collins & Goto Studio presents an on-going series of [...]

Competition to Design a Sustainable Theatre now open

Could You Design a Sustainable Theatre? World Stage Design 2013 is a celebration of International performance design from the world of theatre, opera and dance. The event will take place in Cardiff, UK in September 2013, hosted by the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and includes an exhibition as well as public performances [...]

A Climate Change in the Art World?

An interesting article on www.artnews.com, written by Robin Cembalast, gives insight about the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the art community in New York and shows that Sandy could have been the wake-up call for the community to realize that action against climate change is required on their part. Barry Bergdoll, MoMA’s Chief Curator of [...]

Get Fracktious – National Climate March in London

The Campaign against Climate Change, a UK-based group concerned with raising public awareness to human-caused climate change, is organizing a demonstration march through London on Saturday 1st December 2012. The main topic is the expansion of hydraulic fracturing or fracking, a destructive extraction practice of previously un-tappable “shale-gas”, in the UK, which is seen as [...]

The Myth of Apathy: Going Beyond Behaviour Change

17:30 – 19:30 – 20 November 2012 The UCL Energy Institute of the University College London has invited Dr. Renee Lertzman, a strategic communications specialist focusing on the deep psychological dimensions of sustainability, to talk about her current research. In the seminar, Dr. Lertzman, currently teaching at the Royal Roads University in Canada, addresses how [...]

launch of ADRIFT – a new project by Cape Farewell

Tom Chivers – Cape Farewell’s Climate Poet-in-Residence Art and climate change organisation Cape Farewell is launching ADRIFT – an interrogation of climate as culture, devised by Cape Farewell’s poet in residence, Tom Chivers (in London, UK). They invite the public for a drink, performance and short film, as Tom Chivers maps the natural territories written [...]

Reclaiming evaluation as a critical practice: the powers at play between art, community, and government

Screening and discussion, with Sophie Hope – at the Centre for Cultural Partnerships, University of Melbourne (RM C216, Music Building, 234 St Kilda Road) – Tuesday, September 18, 7 to 9pm This screening and discussion, led visiting practitioner researcher from Birbeck, University of London, Dr. Sophie Hope, introduces a partial history of socially-engaged art and [...]

Borders Network: Creative Environments

This blog was created recently, with support of the Creative Arts Business Network to support an informal network for artists, designers, makers in the Scottish Borders concerned with ecology, environment and sustainability; sharing their upcoming and ongoing projects with other people interested in sustainability and eco-art. For more information, you can visit: http://ecoartborders.wordpress.com/

2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe runs from 3 – 27 August, 2012 This year, among all the shows, there are around 70 that have an ecological focus, whether that’s by dealing with a specific environmental issue, or by developing an ecological theme – like human relations with animals – in the context of a wider [...]

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 [...]

Liberate Tate´s gift

Liberate Tate is a group of artists and activists who oppose to BP´s sponsorship of the Tate galleries, they believe that BP´s sponsorship is incompatible with the Tate´s ethical guidelines,because the corporation is engaged in socially and ecologically destructive activities. Last weekend, on July 7th, the group arrived at the Tate Museum with a new [...]

McDonalds and Sustainability –

- come to think of it… McDonalds and Sustainability. Sounds extremly logical, doesn´t it? These days, the construction of the first sustainable McDonalds store, comes to an end in London. Does that mean, that in the future the well known Fast Food Chain won´t be the place anymore where uncritical and environmentunfriendly voices are still [...]

Publication: Energising Culture

Earlier this month, Energising Culture was launched; a guide to future energy for cultural buildings, engaging the UK´s cultural leadership with the importance of planning a cleaner, more sustainable energy future for cultural buildings. Energising Culture is authored by Julie’s Bicycle, in partnership with the national advisory body for theatres in the UK, The Theatres [...]