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From: Gemma Lloyd <Gemma.Lloyd at rsa.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:34:36 +0000
To: Gemma Lloyd <Gemma.Lloyd at rsa.org.uk>
Conversation: March 2008 E-bulletin
Subject: March 2008 E-bulletin

 

 
 
Dear All 
 
Please save the date for the next event in the series of Arts & Ecology
EXCHANGES:
 
Wednesday 2 April 2008
6pm at the RSA, 8 John Adam Street, WC2N 6EZ
Culture in a Time of Waste
 
Speakers: Artist Michael Landy, Journalist Neil Boorman, Professor Daniel
Miller, Professor of Material Culture, University College London
 
Chaired by Matthew Taylor, Chief Exectutive, RSA
 
This exchange will explore current concerns about climate change and address
the apparent unwillingness to change behaviour in order to prevent
environmental disaster. These questions arise against a background of rapid
economic growth, with high levels of consumption and waste.
 
We also face unprecedented population increase, which has been identified as
the biggest challenge of our time by Jeffrey Sachs in this year¹s Reith
Lectures.
 
Do we maintain freedom of choice, perhaps at the expense of death to the
planet? Can we change behaviour ­ and if so, how?
 
Click here <http://www.rsa.org.uk/events/detail.asp?eventID=2499>  to
reserve a place
 
            Arts & Ecology INTERNATIONAL
 
We are delighted to announce that David Cotterrell has been selected for an
artist¹s residency in Kabul, Afghanistan.  He will be based at Turquoise
Mountain, which was established in March 2006 as a non-profit,
non-governmental organisation specialising in urban regeneration, business
development, and education in traditional arts and architecture. The
Foundation will provide David with an opportunity to engage and work with
artists, craftsmen and art students both at Kabul University and Turquoise
Mountain¹s Centre for Traditional Afghan Art and Architecture in Kabul.
David Cotterrell will begin his residency in mid April ­ please check our
website for more information and news following his arrival.
 
OTHER NEWS:
 
Poison and Antidote
Saturday 29 March 2008, Whitechapel Gallery, London
 
Poison and Antidote is a day of asking questions and finding solutions
organised by Friends of the Earth and Whitechapel Gallery.  The event is
inspired by Cornelia Parker¹s film Chomskian Abstract which can be seen at
the Whitechapel until 30 March.  Artists, academics, comedians, scientists,
activists and opinion makers will reflect on the environment, art and
politics and respond to questions posed by the public.  As part of this
event, Michaela Crimmin, RSA Head of Arts, will explore the role of artists
and curators in inspiring change together with artist Heather Ackroyd.
 
Click here <http://www.foe.co.uk/poisonandantidote/>  for a full programme
and more information
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Please feel free to forward these e-bulletins to your friends, and if you no
longer wish to receive Arts & Ecology e-bulletins just let us know!
 

 
 
 
Latest events and activities since our last e-bulletin:
 
 
EXHIBITIONS:
 
Field Work - Part 1 at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
<http://www.smartprojectspace.net/upcoming_exhibitions/>
 
29 March ­ 17 May 2008
 
The two part exhibition and ongoing discussion Field Work conjectures two
parallel, interconnected, and yet differently orientated trajectories that
encompass art, nature and ecology.
Part 1. comprises work by Allora & Calzadilla, Marine Hugonnier, Lasse Lau
and Jason Middlebrook and a performance by Andrea Geyer.
 
E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions) at Exit Art, New York
<http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/SEA/EPA.html#info>
 
15 March ­ 3 May 2008
 
Artists:  Brandon Ballengée, Vaughn Bell/Sarah Kavage/Nicole Kistler, Mark
Brest van Kempen, Carissa Carman/Joanna Lake, Center for Tactical Magic,
Susanne Cockrell/Ted Purves, Xavier Cortada, Carrie Dashow/Jesse Pearlman
Karlsberg/The Society for a Subliminal State, Erica Fielder, Ozzie Forbes,
Futurefarmers, Fritz Haeg, Amy Howden-Chapman, Basia Irland, Scot Kaplan,
Carolyn Lambert, Robin Lasser, Kathryn Miller, Matthew Moore, Eve S. Mosher,
EcoArtTech: Christine Nadir/Cary Peppermint, Andrea Polli and Joe Gimore
with scientific collaborator Dr. Patrick Market, Rapid Response
(Cobb/Fend/Fischer/Meyer), James Reed and Social Sculpture Research
Unit/Earth Agenda Projects, Tod Seelie/Miss Rockaway Armada, Austin Shull,
Brooke Singer/Brian Rigney Hubbard, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Chris Sollars
  
Curators: Jeanette Ingberman, Papo Colo, Amy Lipton, Patricia Watts
 

Cornelia Parker: Chomskian Abstract at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
 <http://www.whitechapel.org/content.php?page_id=4103>
13 February - 30 March 2008

Greenwashing 
Environment: Perils, Promises, Perplexities
<http://greenwashing.lttds.org/index.html>  at Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebandengo <http://www.fondsrr.org/> , Turin


28 February - 11 May 2008

Greenhouse Britain: Losing Ground, Gaining Wisdom at the Knowle West Media
Centre, Bristol <http://greenhousebritain.greenmuseum.org/>


7 March - 3 April 2008

Eco-Media (Part 2) at Galerie Plug-in, Basel
<http://www.iplugin.org/en/calendar/archive/archivelist/detail/article/oekom
edia-teil-1/> 


21 February - 23 March 2008

Environmental Performance Actions (EPA) at Exit Art, New York
<http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/SEA/EPA.html>


15 March - 3 May 2008

Wood Works: 13 Years of the Wood Studio, Helsinki, at the Centre for
Contemporary Art and the Natural World,
<http://www.ccanw.co.uk/pdf/PROGRAMME_8_WEB.pdf>


26 January - 30 March 2008

REHAB at Labor Gallery, Budapest  <http://www.labor.c3.hu/>


29 February - 26 March 2008

Contemporary Art Project Murcia
 <http://www.pacmurcia.es/>
31 January ­ 31 March 2008

Design and the Elastic Mind at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
<http://moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=5632>


24 February - 12 May 2008
 
 
 
EVENTS:
 
BLACKOUT INTERNATIONAL <http://www.blackoutbritain.org.uk/>
21 March 2008
The next date for a voluntary Lights Off evening, to encourage companies,
individuals and public bodies to pledge to reduce their demand for energy.
 
GRASSROOTS <http://www.halikonlahti.net/grassroots/>
Green Art / Art and Ecology  Conference at Kiasma Theatre Helsinki,


16 - 17 April 2008
 
GRASSROOTS is a 2-day conference, a public forum for discovering and
debating the wide field art and ecology today with renowned and specialist
speakers leading the way.
 
Margate Rocks 08 ­ Arts & Ecology <http://www.margaterocks.com/>
 
2 ­ 11 May 2008
 
Showcasing cutting edge work by emerging and established artists, the
festival will highlight areas of social, environmental and cultural fact and
fiction. The programme aims to create an interdisciplinary dialogue that
audiences of all ages can access through a variety of exciting commissions,
exhibitions, talks, events, films and workshops.
 
OPPORTUNITIES:
 
TRUTH SERUM <http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/biotech/truthserum.html>
Call for SELF-EXPERIMENTERS AND PARTICIPANTS
<http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/biotech/truthserum.html>
 
29 March 2008, Liverpool
 
An Off-Site Project as a response to the work TRUTH SERUM at FACT Liverpool.
Commissioned by The Arts Catalyst.
 




 
 

 
 
 
 
Best wishes and a Happy Easter from
 
The Arts & Ecology Team
 
                   
 

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