Making_Life

– a research platform for art and synthetic biology “I wonder how much of this Making Life project (what’s in a name) will consist of critical reflection on “the making of novel life-forms from ‘scratch’”, and how much – through its association with art – will in fact be providing social and moral legitimacy (and… Continue reading Making_Life

InContext:public.art.ecology – Food Edition. III

 Open Studio Day: Thursday, 17th April, 2014 Time: 6:30 PM onwards At Khoj Studios, S-17 Khirki Extension, New Delhi – 17   Khoj is currently curating a third edition of its InContext:public.art.ecology – Food Edition III residency. Artists-in-residence Leone Contini, Mona Gandhi, Ravi Agarwal and Srishti Lakhera have researched issues around body’s relationship with food,… Continue reading InContext:public.art.ecology – Food Edition. III

Essay Competition 2014 – Leadership

Entries are now open for the 2014 WOLFoundation essay competition. Whether it relates to environmental degradation, personal privacy, the functioning, or otherwise, of our democratic processes and many other issues, many people feel that we are suffering from an almost global crisis of leadership. An inability to break out of the status quo to enable… Continue reading Essay Competition 2014 – Leadership

Interactive Futures 2014: More-Than-Human Worlds, Compassionate Interactions and the Ethics of Aesthetics

Workshop: Apr 24 and 25, 2014 Exhibition: Apr 24 to May 8, 2014 Interactive Futures 2014: More-Than-Human Worlds, Compassionate Interactions and Ethics of Aesthetics combines interdisciplinary academic research with explorations in new media and interactive artistic practice to consider alternative conceptions of human relations with other animals and the environment. The inquiry calls upon methodologies… Continue reading Interactive Futures 2014: More-Than-Human Worlds, Compassionate Interactions and the Ethics of Aesthetics

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

Book Publication: Living Pathways: Meditations on sustainable cultures and cosmologies in Asia

Globalisation and technological progress have ushered us into a new era of development. Never before has the promise of the ‘Good Life’ in a hedonistic, consumerist utopia, been within reach for so many. Yet a significant portion of humanity is still unable to meet their basic needs. These trends are unsustainable, and beg the question:… Continue reading Book Publication: Living Pathways: Meditations on sustainable cultures and cosmologies in Asia

Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways III February – June 2012

Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways is a project inviting reflection by artists on the anxieties embodied by the rank infrastructural development across India and its uncomfortable coexistence with local ecologies. Now in its third year, the project has invited artists, collectives and other professionals to develop projects that are site-specific and have an inter-disciplinary… Continue reading Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways III February – June 2012

2012 Residency Application

The Guapamacátaro Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology is a site-based and community-oriented program for artists from different disciplines, scientists, educators and activists, aimed at fostering socially and ecologically-conscious cultural development. The hacienda is set on rural farmland and located in the state of Michocán, Mexico. The topic of ecology plays an important role for… Continue reading 2012 Residency Application

Ecodrama Playwrights Festival & Symposium on Performance & Ecology

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA May 31-June 3, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS From the 31st of May until the 3rd of June 2012 the Ecodrama Playwrights Festival and Symposium on Performance and Ecology takes place in Pittsburgh. Artists, scholars and activists are invited to share their work, ideas and passions with the attenders… Continue reading Ecodrama Playwrights Festival & Symposium on Performance & Ecology

The National Circus – a gathering, Berlin

Berlin 27th of October On the 27th of October The National Circus takes place in the Gartenstudio in Berlin. On this occasion poets and storytellers of all kind meet in order to celebrate the  ‘being in the moment’ and the beauty of the ephemeral. In this way you are able to find the foundation of… Continue reading The National Circus – a gathering, Berlin