Tag Archives: UK

Ecocultures 2012 Conference

The Ecocultures 2012 conference is taking place on April 17th and 18th at the University of Essex (Colchester Campus) in the UK. For the final program and more information, please visit this webpage: http://www.ecocultures.org/2012/04/ecocultures-2012-final-programme/

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:

The Slave Business and Its Material and Moral Hinterlands in Continental Europe

Conference at the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool (UK), April 20-22, 2012 The history of transatlantic slavery is one of the most active and fruitful fields of historical research worldwide. As scholarship in this field is increasingly global, it opens up unique possibilities for international collaboration. More particularly, the most recent research which looks beyond the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Conference: Environmental Utterance

UK September 1st – 2nd, 2012 On the 1st and 2nd of September 2012 the University College Falmouth inc. Darlington College of Arts invites to the conference Environmental Utterance. Highly contextual practices are used in every academic disciplines, exploring ways of articulating specific environments, spaces or places.  This conference examines a specific problematic that attends the dissemination of [...]

Publication: Music and Arts in Action (MAiA)

The first special issue of Music and Arts in Action (MAiA) presents the proceedings of a 2009 conference on ‘Music and Migration’, which was part of the 3-year research project ‘Diaspora as Social and Cultural Practice: A Study of Transnational Networks across Europe and Africa’. The project was based at the Universities of Southampton and [...]

The Home and the World – On Being at Home

South Devon 19th to 21st of June 2012 From the 19th to the 21st of June 2012 a creative summit for artists and other thinkers will take place at Dartington Hall Estate in south Devon/England. The summit will focus on the question if the alienation of humankind from the natural world has effected his condition [...]

Call for Papers: Affective Landscapes

    May 25th – 26th 2012 Derby, UK This conference seeks exciting disciplinary and transdisciplinary proposals from scholars working in fields such as cultural studies, literary studies, cultural politics/history, creative writing, film and media studies, Area Studies, photography, fine art, interested in examining the different ways in which human beings respond and relate to, [...]

Emergence: The Document!

Emergence: The Document! Creative industries play an important role in the process of developing a sustainable future for the planet, but often there is a lack of ideas and practical solutions on the way to this more sustainable future. The partnership project between Volcano and Cynnal Cymru-Sustain Wales supported by Arts Council Wales and British [...]

High Arctic Film Weekend

London December 3/4, 2011 On December the 3rd and 4th, the National Maritime Museum in London hosts the High Arctic Film Weekend. In parallel, the High Arctic exhibition is shown at the National Maritime Museum until the 13th of January 2012, too. The weekend of Arctic films complements it by featuring a range of documentaries, [...]

Caroline Tisdall talks to Miranda Sawyer

London 8th of December 2011 What does Beuys mean now? This question is asked by Miranda Sawyer (feature writer an radio critic for The Observer and music reviewer for Newsnight an The Culture Show) to photographer Caroline Tisdall, who has been a close friend and collaborator of the German artist Joseph Beuys. 25 years after [...]

The animal gaze returned

London From the 27th of October until the 11th of November the School of Fine Art at the Cass invites to the exhibition „The animal gaze returned“ at the London Metropolitan University. The focus of the exhibition is on animality and the interspecific, that active social space between and among different species; new representations of [...]

Sensory Worlds: Environment, Value and the Multi-Sensory

7th-9th December, 2011; Edinburgh „What contribution can sensorially-engaged Humanities make to environmental thinking and action?“ The conference „Sensory Worlds“ wants to examine the multi-sensory and will reflect upon the historical, contemporary and possible future relations between the senses (from balance to taste to the haptic and beyond). It aims to allow generously for both formal [...]

Symposium: “Animal Ecologies in Visual Culture”

Reposted from: www.antennae.org.uk/Symposium The symposium on October 8th 2011 at University College London proposes an exploration of artistic practices involved with animals and environments. In the recent re-surfacing of the animal in contemporary art, emphasis has been given to mammals, mainly because of the most immediate relational opportunities that these animals offer to us. However, a number [...]