Visiting Arts and the Delfina Foundation‘s Artist-to-Artist scheme invites practicing UK-based artists to partner with artists of their choice from a list of mainly Middle-Eastern countries, allowing them to travel to the UK for a one-week exchange of ideas and experiences. The emphasis is on the development and research process rather than production, free from any obligation to produce a prescribed outcome. This call is also open to artists from the countries on the Artist-to-Artist list.
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Integral Ecoawareness Training, Dec 12-14
Integral Ecoawareness Laboratory – 12-14 December, Berlin. “An invitation to explore all layers of life through the personal experiential perspective,” using “exploratory research in dance, somaticsand deep ecological thinking.”
Fee: 60/45 Euros
Guandu International Sculpture Festival Taiwan
Call for submissions: 2009 Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival – Focus on Land, Water and Culture, Guandu Nature Park, Taipei, Taiwan, June 12– September 27, 2009.Deadline for entries, February 1, 2009. Artists from all countries are invited to send proposals for temporary site-specific sculpture installations that raise awareness about environmental issues related to land, water and culture.
Wonderful: Visions of the Near Future by Fusco, Maria (ed.)
This travelling exhibition explored collaborations between artists and scientists. ‘Wonderful’ investigates science within a broad cultural and philosophical framework, inviting visitors to consider their own attitudes to ethical issues emerging from current developments in technology and scientific research.
Arrested Rivers by Forsman, Chuck, Harrison, Helen Mayer and Harrison, Newton
Paintings by Chuck Forsman with essays and poems by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Roger C. Echo-Hawk, Gary Holthuas, and Charles Wilkinson.
Fragile Ecologies: Contemporary Artists’ Interpretations and Solutions. by Matilsky, Barbara C
Fragile Ecologies was a travelling exhibition that focused on activist, environmentally oriented art, and the role of artists as agents of change. It brought together material documenting the work of a dozen ecology-minded artists, or artist groups, working in diverse environments and situations.
Tomorrow’s World: Britain’s Share in a Sustainable Future. by Bullock, Simon, McLaren, Duncan and Yousuf, Nusrat.
Researched and written by an eminent team at Friends of the Earth, Tomorrow’s World argues that Britain must make deep cuts in resource consumption in order to allow developing countries to escape from poverty, and to prevent further breaches of environmental limits.
Europe, Globalisation and Sustainable Development. by Baxter, Brian
This book explores whether Europe can produce a sustainable future and the difficulties presented by globalisation. Focusing on politics and policy, this edited volume considers the ways in which European states and the European Union can and should organize themselves economically and socially in order to address the challenges of sustainable development.
Ecocriticism by Gerrard, Greg
Ecocriticism explores the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of cultural production. It traces the development of modern environmental movements and explores the concepts which have most occupied ecocritics.
The One Straw Revolution by Masanob, Fukuoka
Scientist Fukuoka practices a system of farming he refers to as “natural farming.” In The One Straw Revolution, he describes the philosophy and techniques behind it and the impact of his natural farming methods. Although some of his practices are specific to Japan, the governing philosophy of his method has successfully been applied around the world.