(Click on ‘More’ and scroll down for ‘UNEARTHED’ exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum) i Light Festival 7th – 30th of March 2014, 7:30pm – 11pm, Marina Bay Waterfront, Free Admission i Light Marina Bay is Asia’s only sustainable light art festival that showcases innovative content, the intelligent use of lighting as well as an… Continue reading Arts & Sustainability – Events in Singapore
Author: Lena Felde
Lena is the Treasurer of Cultura21 Germany. She is studying Cultural Sciences (Mag. Art.) at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany.
OPEN CALL: ARTLEAKS GAZETTE NO.2
(An)Other Art World(s)? Imagination Beyond Fiction The first issue of the ArtLeaks Gazette was aimed at bringing critical awareness of the challenges and obstacles of the contemporary art system. While they considered this a necessary initial step in enacting meaningful transformations of this system, ArtLeaks now feels the need to move beyond exposure and breaking the… Continue reading OPEN CALL: ARTLEAKS GAZETTE NO.2
Taipei Biennial 2014
The French art critic/curator Nicolas Bourriaud (b. 1965) has been selected as the curator of the Taipei Biennial 2014. Titled The Great Acceleration, it will develop his curatorial concept for the biennial around the topic Art and Its New Ecosystem: A Global Set of Relations. Since 1998, the Taipei Biennial has launched its international programming in… Continue reading Taipei Biennial 2014
PhD research programme in the Arts and Humanities
The Neue Galerie Luzern–Swiss Academic Association (NGL–SAA) together with the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, UK, has created a new PhD program. Embedded in the quality of the educational work achieved by the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, and the objective to promote knowledge of and deep engagement with all aspects of the arts, society… Continue reading PhD research programme in the Arts and Humanities
SUMMER SCHOOL “LEARNING FROM THE SOUTH: TOWARDS INTERCULTURAL TRANSLATIONS”
CURIA, PORTUGAL, JUNE 30TH – JULY 8TH, 2014 This summer school, living up to the motto “learning from the south and with the south”, seeks to provide clues about the possibilities of social political and institutional transformation from innovations taking place in various contexts of the global south. The international summer school is part of… Continue reading SUMMER SCHOOL “LEARNING FROM THE SOUTH: TOWARDS INTERCULTURAL TRANSLATIONS”
Luxembourg: Environmental charter used as kickstarter
Inspirational: This is what a cultural institution’s environmental charter looks like: Reposted from Culture|Futures. In recent years, the cultural institution and concert-venue Kulturfabrik in Luxembourg has devoted itself to reflecting on sustainable development and a continuous improvement of the institution’s practices for the purpose of minimising its impact on the environment. A place to find… Continue reading Luxembourg: Environmental charter used as kickstarter
Arts and Ecology: emerging uses for digital technologies
Digital Creativity is a journal devoted to the intersection of the creative arts and digital technology. Concerned with both the practical and the theoretical, Digital Creativity offers a unique forum to researchers and practitioners involved in the interdisciplinary nature of making or using digital media in creative contexts. They include such disciplines as fine art,… Continue reading Arts and Ecology: emerging uses for digital technologies
USA: Art exhibition about climate change, coal and superfunds
In the new exhibition ‘Altered State’, which runs at the Holter Museum in Helena, Montana, until 13 April 2014, the popular American painter Monte Dolack takes a look at controversial topics such as climate change, coal, superfund sites, and the effects of extractive companies moving into Montana’s wild spaces. Reposted from Culture|Futures. Monte Dolack is… Continue reading USA: Art exhibition about climate change, coal and superfunds
The Big Melt: Saving Archeological Treasures Exposed by Melting Glaciers
The race to find, and save, ancient artifacts emerging from glaciers and ice patches in a warming world By ANDREW CURRY Archaeologists in Norway space themselves out to walk along ground newly exposed by the melting edges of an ice patch. Eyes firmly on the ground, they are on the lookout for artifacts that have… Continue reading The Big Melt: Saving Archeological Treasures Exposed by Melting Glaciers
Holland: Conference on the future sustainability of European culture organisations
The conference ‘The Future Is Not What It Used To Be’ aims to develop a range of practical strategies and tactics for the future sustainability of European culture organisations. Reposted from Culture|Futures. ‘The Future Is Not What It Used To Be’ is a three-day, interdisciplinary working conference on 2-4 April 2014, presented by Trans Europe… Continue reading Holland: Conference on the future sustainability of European culture organisations
