Monthly Archives: May 2015

Call for Submissions – Sanctuary 2015

ecoartscotland, Open Calls

This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland

Sanctuary is a unique 24-hour public art laboratory within the Galloway Forest Dark Skies Park in South West Scotland that runs from Noon 26th September to Noon 27th September 2015. It creates a space for new work that ranges from sound installations and radio broadcasts to interactive video and performance. At its heart is a temporary community that forms to camp, talk, explore and show work, providing opportunities for unexpected meetings, conversations and new ideas.

We would like to commission three new works for Sanctuary 2015 that explore Darkness and Light in new ways. As much of the Dark Skies Park is beyond the reach of communication networks, we are particularly interested in ‘electronic’ darkness, as well as exploring light across all its frequencies.

We are open to any art forms, interpretations or behaviours.

There are three commissions of up to £1000 to include all materials and travel. Please see www.sanctuary2015.org for more information.

Sanctuary curators:
Jo Hodges: www.johodges.co.uk
Robbie Coleman

The Dark Outside FM curator:
Stuart McLean: frenchbloke.tumblr.com

How to apply:

Please send an outline of your idea (no more than A4) including any technical requirements, 5 images of previous work – this may include links to video / sound works, and a C.V to: sanctuarylab2015@gmail.com

Deadline 28 May 2015 @ 5pm

Supported by New Media Scotland’s Alt-w Fund with investment from Creative Scotland; as well as Dumfries and Galloway Council.  Sanctuary is a partnership between the Forestry Commission and Wide Open.
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ecoartscotland is a resource focused on art and ecology for artists, curators, critics, commissioners as well as scientists and policy makers. It includes ecoartscotland papers, a mix of discussions of works by artists and critical theoretical texts, and serves as a curatorial platform.

It has been established by Chris Fremantle, producer and research associate with On The Edge Research, Gray’s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University. Fremantle is a member of a number of international networks of artists, curators and others focused on art and ecology.

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Opportunity: Arts Project Manager

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This opportunity comes from the Edinburgh & Lothians Health Foundation with a deadline of Monday 25 May 2015 at 12:00.

The Arts Project Manager will develop and deliver art and greenspace design provision for Phases One and Two of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital Redevelopment.

Primary tasks include:

  • Input into the design process for any capital elements with an arts purpose.
  • Deliver prioritised arts and greenspace design projects for Phase One, outlining budgets, timelines and briefs.
  • Identify/ recruit, appoint and manage artists and designers to develop and deliver selected projects.
  • Identify potential sources of match funding and submit applications for the programme.
  • Work with project partners to deliver selected projects.
  • Development of a strategic framework of arts projects for Phase Two of redevelopment in consultation with project partners.

The project manager will be directed by the REH Redevelopment Arts Steering Group. Collaboration with NHS Lothian staff including existing site managers, site redevelopment project team and clinical staff, GreenSpace|ArtSpace Public Social Partnership, contractors, artists/ designers and arts/ greenspace organisations will be a central to the role.

To receive the full contract brief please contact:
Susan Grant, Arts Manager| Edinburgh and Lothians Health Foundation
www.elhf.co.uk/about-us/contributing-to-arts-and-heritage/

Please note: Standard working week Monday – Thursday.

Location: Edinburgh City

For further information, please contact susan.grant@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk (Susan Grant, Arts Manager), or call 0131 465 5471, or visit http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/OurOrganisation/PropertyDevelopments/CurrentProjects/

The deadline is Monday 25 May 2015 at 12:00.

Image: Elevated Wetlands by artist Noel Harding, Flickr Creative Commons/Postbear

 

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

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CSPA Quarterly Q12: On Environment now available on MagCloud

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Though the environment is necessarily a key theme in a Quarterly devoted to sustainability, in this issue we take a particularly sharp focus on in. In particular, we examine environment in scenography, performance, art and theater. Part two of a four-part series on the four pillars of sustainability, recognized by CSPA as: environmental awareness & responsibility, economic stability, cultural infrastructure, and social equity.

Source: CSPA Quarterly | Q12: On Environment | MagCloud

OPEN CALL: CREATIVITY IN TRANSITION PROCESSES TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY

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Call for: Academic Papers, Artistic Expressions, Demonstration of creativity-enhancing Games, Techniques and Exercises

for the workshop: CREATIVITY IN TRANSITION PROCESSES TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY

To be realized within the Global Cleaner Production & Sustainable Consumption Conference, Accelerating the Transition to Equitable Post Fossil-Carbon Societies,

1 – 4 November 2015, Sitges,
Barcelona, Spain, http://www.cleanerproductionconference.com/

In collaboration with Cultura21-International, Network in Cultural Fieldworks for Sustainability http://www.cultura21.net

Deadline of the Call: 29 of May 2015

This workshop focuses on creativity to accelerate the transition process towards more equitable post fossil-carbon societies, and is designed to bring together academics, artists and practitioners (trainers, educators, moderators). The workshop approaches creativity as a transdisciplinary challenge of escaping established patterns (the ‘taken-for-granted’ ways of seeing products, processes, infrastructures, organizations, ourselves) and reshaping new ones, that is best realized in non-linear processes and in non-structured spaces where multiple sources of knowing are combined, such as the sciences, the arts, design, storytelling, meditation and rituals, thus uniting cognitive, embodied and direct knowing, emotional intelligence, lateral thinking, imagination, experience and more.

The workshop format reflects the non-linear and non-structured nature of creativity and is designed as a space where the presentation of academic papers will be mixed with the presentations of artistic expressions (movies, music, performances, dance, etc.) and with the active participation in various sessions where creativity-enhancing games, techniques and exercises will engage all participant (meditation, story-telling, presencing and more). The workshop organizers will act as facilitators/catalysts/curators of this multi-dimensional event, ensuring a certain level of organization in the proposed non-linearity and non-structuration.

We invite the following type of proposals:

  • Academic papers. We welcome both theoretical papers (on the nature of creativity, creativity and complexity, organizational creativity, creativity and sustainability) as well as empirical or thematic papers (creativity in the greening of industry, creativity and innovation, creative sustainable cities, creativity in education for sustainability, art and climate change, creativity and sustainable politics). We invite authors to prepare abstracts of 500 words in English.
  • Artistic expressions. All artistic disciplines are welcome in the workshop (dance, musical performances, poetry reading, paintings, photos, sculptures, videos, documentaries and more). The artistic expressions should address creativity in general, or specific themes like art and climate change, artistic interventions in public spaces, preferably touching upon transitions towards more equitable post fossil-carbon cities. Artists are invited to prepare a proposal in the form of a portfolio with a 500 words description of the research material they created in relation to the artistic expression proposed, including as well images/multimedia files to be prepared in English, indicating the time needed for the proposed contribution/intervention.
  • Combined academic papers and artistic expressions. We especially welcome contributions in which the presentation of the academic paper is combined with other forms of artistic expressions. Authors and/or artists are invited to prepare a proposal in the form of a portfolio of max. 500 words for the paper and a description of the artistic expression to be prepared in English, indicating the time needed for the proposed contribution.
  • Creativity-enhancing games, techniques and exercises. Practitioners (trainers, educators, moderators) are invited to propose a short session in which they demonstrate a creativity-enhancing game, technique or exercise. The proposal should include a description of the proposed game, technique or exercise, a description of the conditions for executing the demonstrative session (space, time, materials, other requirements). The proposal should not exceed 500 words.

All proposals must be submitted no later than May 29, 2015, via the conference website:
http://www.cleanerproductionconference.com/

After the Conference, a scientific team will select workshop contributions to be further developed for peer review and potential publication within one of several Special Volumes of the Journal of Cleaner Production that will be developed, based primarily upon outputs from the Global Conference.

For more information, please contact the Creativity Workshop Coordinating Team:

  • Prof. Dr. Hans Dieleman, Academy of Environmental Sciences and Climate Change, Autonomous University of Mexico City, Workshop Coordinator, Co-coordinator Cultura21, Germany, France, Denmark, Mexico, Fellow at theatlas.org, (johannes.dieleman@uacm.edu.mx)
  • Prof. Dr. Donald Huisingh, Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA; Global Conference Coordinator, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Cleaner Production (dhuisingh@utk.edu)
  • Prof. Dr. Nuno Guimaraes da Costa, ICN Business School Nancy-Metz, France, director of ICN’s MSc in International Management – MIEX, (nuno.guimaraes-dacosta@icn-groupe.fr)
  • Dr. Sacha Kagan, Research Associate, ISCO, Leuphana University, Lueneburg (Germany), Interim Vice-Chair of the ESA Research Network Sociology of the Arts, Founding Coordinator, Cultura21 International & Vice-President, Cultura21 Institut (Germany) sachakagan@gmail.com
  • Jeanne Bloch, artist-researcher, Paris, France (jeannebloch@gmail.com)
  • Dr. Oleg Koefoed, PhD, Action-Philosopher; Core member and co-founder, Cultura21 Nordic and International; External Lecturer, Copenhagen Business School, mezomian@gmail.com

For more information on the conference, please also watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yqOM7WD98Y

PDF-version: + Call for Proposals — Workshop Creativity in Transition Porcesses Global Conference Barcelona nov 2015

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Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21′s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in Lüneburg, Germany) and Rana Öztürk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

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Seven Green Captains Receive 2015 Tony Nominations

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Congratulations to all our Green Captains who received Tony nominations this season!

Labelled Tony Noms

 

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The Broadway Green Alliance was founded in 2008 in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council. The Broadway Green Alliance (BGA) is an ad hoc committee of The Broadway League and a fiscal program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. Along with Julie’s Bicycle in the UK, the BGA is a founding member of the International Green Theatre Alliance. The BGA has reached tens of thousands of fans through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other media.

At the BGA, we recognize that it is impossible to be 100% “green” while continuing activity and – as there is no litmus test for green activity – we ask instead that our members commit to being greener and doing better each day. As climate change does not result from one large negative action, but rather from the cumulative effect of billions of small actions, progress comes from millions of us doing a bit better each day. To become a member of the Broadway Green Alliance we ask only that you commit to becoming greener, that you name a point person to be our liaison, and that you will tell us about your green-er journey.

The BGA is co-chaired by Susan Sampliner, Company Manager of the Broadway company of WICKED, and Charlie Deull, Executive Vice President at Clark Transfer<. Rebekah Sale is the BGA’s full-time Coordinator.

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Creative Carbon Scotland’s Ben Twist wins Low Carbon Pioneer Award

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Ben Twist was presented with the Low Carbon Pioneer Award from the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) at their Low Carbon Innovation Awards last Wednesday, 29th April 2015.

The awards come at the end of a four-year Low Carbon Innovation (LCI) project that supported Scottish SMEs in developing low carbon products and services. Funded by ERDF, University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University, the LCI has fortified ECCI’s role as a hub for sustainable innovation.

The project, running from May 2011 to May 2015, had a total investment of £1,567,797, engaging with 1,400 SMEs and supporting over 500 of these enterprises (including Creative Carbon Scotland), alongside 50 networks and 51 in-depth projects. 200 new products or services were created through this process, which exceeded the original target set by the LCI by 200%.

The winners of the Low Carbon Innovation Awards have contributed to enterprises in the following four categories:

  • Most Innovative Product – Sunamp
  • Most Innovative Service – Scene Consulting
  • Low Carbon Pioneer Award – Ben Twist, Creative Carbon Scotland
  • Contribution to a Low Carbon Economy Group Award – Scotland’s 2020 Climate Group

Duncan Wall, Environment Manager for Diageo, presented Ben Twist with the Low Carbon Pioneer Award. Wall said: “We are very pleased to sponsor these awards and proud to have supported the ECCI through their work supporting SMEs in Scotland helping to transform the low carbon landscape. As a business we innovate on carbon reduction and welcome the opportunity to support others and share our experiences.”

More information about the LCI can be found at ECCI’s website.

Image: Ben Twist, founder Creative Carbon Scotland, presented by Duncan Wall, Diageo, Environment Manager

 

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

Go to Creative Carbon Scotland

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Satish Kumar Documentary

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This year, Emergence, in association with Resurgence, Schumacher College, Volcano and Culture Colony is making a landmark documentary series of 6 hour-long conversations with Satish Kumar, one of the greatest living teachers and visionaries of the 21st century – and we want you to help us make it happen. We are doing this.

From April 27th to May 29th 2015, we will run our very first crowdfunding campaign to enable us to create these documentaries. We’re writing to you in the hope that you will support us by helping to spread the word as widely as possible via your networks. Here’s more information –

What is Emergence?

Emergence is an arts and sustainability collective based in Wales. We make art with one agenda: to change the world for the better. Satish Kumar is one of the main inspirations behind Emergence and his philosophy and activism continue to inspire our work.

Who is Satish Kumar?

satish-kumar-photoBorn in 1936, Satish became a Jain Monk aged 9 and then, aged 18, joined the Gandhian non-violent, land reform movement. In 1964 his 8,000 mile, Peace Walk took him from Delhi to all the nuclear capitals of the world, without a penny in his pocket, carrying only a message of peace.

 

He later settled in the UK and went on to become Editor of Resurgence Magazine championing ecology, art and spirituality. He founded the world’s leading college for activists and change-makers, Schumacher College, now celebrating its 25th anniversary.

“Satish is a truly remarkable manifestation of the human spirit. Working at the juncture of curiosity and compassion, he’s inspired so many to do so much!”  - Bill McKibben, 350.org

“Visionary, earthy, filled with wonder – Satish Kumar and his work holds a door of possibility towards a future worth serving.” - Jonathon Porritt, Forum for the Future

In his tireless teaching, writing and speaking over eight decades, Satish has changed countless lives. But never before has there been a record of his life and work that deeply investigates all that he stands for and advocates.

Why make a documentary series?

We live in extreme and scary times, yet we lack the political leadership we need to bring our planet back from the brink of ecological, social and economic crisis. This situation leaves many of us feeling isolated and disempowered. The message at the heart of Satish’s teaching is that individuals can and do change the world for the better. He is a living example of Gandhi’s maxim that we should “be the change we want to see in the world”. At times like these, we all need to be inspired to change – and Satish is one of the most inspirational teachers the world has ever seen.

In making this series, we want to bring Satish’s words and teachings to as wide an audience as possible and, at the same time, create a legacy of his lifetime of learning for generations to come. This won’t be a hagiography, a simple glorification of a man’s life and work. We will challenge Satish to communicate his philosophy as never before through six hours of intense, enlightening and enriching conversations.

What will the series be like?

We live in the age of the sound-bite, short attention spans and ‘quick-fix’ culture. We want this series to be the opposite of that – an opportunity to spend quality time in Satish’s company. The series will present Satish in deep conversation to really draw out his ideas and stories.

To ensure rigour of debate, we have chosen as our interviewer Jane Davidson, like Satish a teacher and activist, and also former Minister for the Environment and Sustainability in Wales – the woman behind the radical One Planet One Wales initiative.

Amongst the many legacies of Jane’s time in post, Wales is now committed to sustainability as a core organizing principle – the first government in the world to take such a stance. Jane is really looking forward to the conversations with Satish, keen to find ways of drawing out his ideas and bringing them firmly into the mainstream. Jane and Satish share the same values and ideals yet approach them from very different viewpoints. These conversations are sure to be a terrific meeting of minds that will bring real insight into the huge challenges we all face – and offer practical ways to change things for the better.

You can watch a short video of Jane talking about the project here.

These six hour-long films will be filmed in summer 2015 and released as a limited edition, beautifully presented, DVD box-set in autumn 2016 – Satish’s 80th year and the 50th Anniversary of Resurgence.

How will we be funding the series?

In keeping with the spirit of Emergence, we will be raising the funds via a campaign on the crowdfunding website, Indiegogo. By supporting our campaign and investing in the project, backers will be literally pre-ordering their copy of the documentaries – either by download or the DVDs – and we’ve also put together a terrific package of benefits, including signed books, subscriptions, the chance to attend the final interview or even to become a co-producer! This is a strictly not-for-profit project. All monies raised will go into making it happen.

How can you help?

We are initially approaching a number of influencers to help us. These are people we know who are committed to social change and have wide networks of contacts. We are approaching YOU as one of our influencers who, we hope, will endorse our project by flagging it up to your friends, colleagues and networks. Of course, we also hope you will back ourcrowd funding campaign.

This email is to give you advanced notice of our campaign. We have just 33 days to raise our budget of £30,000. When the campaign goes live we will send you an email linking to our page on the Indiegogo site with all the details you’ll need to share with your networks.

We’re really excited about creating this landmark documentary series and we hope you will join us in making it a reality. OUR CROWDFUNDING CAMPAGN WILL GO LIVE ON MONDAY 27TH APRIL AND WILL RUN UNTIL FRIDAY 29TH MAY. During that time it would be wonderful if you could share our campaign emails, tweets and Facebook posts with your networks andencourage them to do likewise. The more people that hear about it, the morechance we have of reaching our target and making this happen.

We will be back in touch again soon, in the meantime if you want to know more please get in touch.

Warm wishes,

Fern, Phil & Esyllt

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NYLM sponsors the Agnes Denes Award for Environmental Art

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The Agnes Denes Award for Environmental Art, sponsored by the organization New York Loves Mountains and named in honor of pioneering environmental artist Ages Denes, will be awarded to an artist whose work has been or will be shown or performed in New York State between June 2014 and June 2015. This award is designed to recognize artists who are working with the intention to bring about awareness, discussion and action in response to current global, national, state or local environmental challenges. This award aims to support work that goes beyond grief, anger and irony to point to sustainable alternative practices and guiding ethos in realms such as urban planning, electrical systems, consumer resource use, transit, and energy politics. This award supports the idea that art is a crucial means of communication about contemporary environmental concerns in that it defies the current social tendency toward specialization at the cost of recognizing imbalances that affect all humans on multiple levels. This award will honor an artist who demonstrates unique vision and courage in concert with artistic skill and talent toward raising consciousness about humanity’s evolution toward truly sustainable principles and practice.

Amount of Award: $2,000

Eligibility: Any artistic work shown in New York State between June 2014 and June 2015. Submitted work may include an original song, a film or video, visual art, or a theatrical performance. Please send any queries about the eligibility of a piece to agnesdenesaward@gmail.com

To Apply for the Award

If you would like to apply for the Agnes Denes Award for Environmental Art, please submit the following to agnesdenesaward@gmail.com no later than June 30, 2015:

  • A 300-500 word cover letter explaining the piece you’re submitting and the reason you feel it fits the criteria for the award
  • Application Form (posted at www.newyorklovesmountains.org)
  • 6-10 photos or a video (approximately 2 minutes in duration) providing an accurate and complete visual representation of your piece
  • Any relevant publicity or press surrounding the show or performance in which your piece appeared
  • A list corresponding to the images giving references to title/ description of works.

Nominations

We also accept nominations for the award. Nominations may be emailed along with artist name, the title of the nominated work and the artist’s contact information to agnesdenesaward@gmail.com

Decision

The decision, made by a panel of artists with a final selection made by Agnes Denes, will be announced in October 2015.

About Agnes Denes:

A primary figure among the concept-based artists who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, Agnes Denes is internationally known for works created in a wide range of mediums. Investigating science, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, poetry, history, and music, Denes’s artistic practice is distinctive in terms of its aesthetics and engagement with socio-political ideas. As a pioneer of environmental art, she created Rice/Tree/Burial in 1968 in Sullivan County, New York which, according to the renowned art historian and curator Peter Selz, was “…the first large scale site-specific piece anywhere with ecological concerns.”

Her work Wheatfield – A Confrontation, which the scholar and curator Jeffrey Weiss has called “perpetually astonishing . . . one of Land Art’s great transgressive masterpieces” (Artforum, September 2008), is perhaps Denes’s best-known work. It was created during a four-month period in the spring and summer of 1982 when Denes planted a field of golden wheat on two acres of rubble-strewn landfill near Wall Street and the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan (now the site of Battery Park City and the World Financial Center).Wheatfield is almost better known than the forests Agnes has planted in other parts of the world. The largest reclamation site in the world, Tree Mountain—A Living Time Capsule,of 11,000 trees is a 400-year project to create the world’s first manmade virgin forest. Other forest work includesA Forest for Australia,of 8000 trees in Melbourne, and a new forest she is in the process of creating for New York City. Her forests clean the air by absorbing carbon emissions, and clean fresh water for Earth’s growing population.

Works by Agnes Denes are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Centre Pompidou in Paris; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Kunsthalle Nürnberg and many other major institutions worldwide.

She has received numerous honors and awards including four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and four grants from the New York State Council on the Arts; the DAAD Fellowship, Berlin, Germany (1978); the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award (1985); M.I.T’s highly prestigious Eugene McDermott Achievement Award “In Recognition of Major Contribution to the Arts” (1990); the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (1998); the Watson Trans-disciplinary Art Award from Carnegie Mellon University (1999); the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2007); and the Ambassador’s Award for Cultural Diplomacy for Strengthening the Friendship between the US and the Republic of Hungary through Excellence in Contemporary Art (2008). She lectures extensively worldwide and speaks at global conferences.

Denes is the author of six books and is featured in numerous other publications on a wide range of subjects in art and the environment, including the recentEco-Amazons: 20 Women Who are Transforming the World.She is currently in the process of planting 50,000 trees in New York City. A flowering pyramid she is creating at Socrates Park, also in New York, reminding us of the dynamics of nature, will open this April. Her exhibition “In the Realm of Pyramids: The Visual Philosophy of Agnes Denes” is on display at the Leslie Tonkonow Gallery in Manhattan now through May 9, 2015.

Opportunity: Environmental Artist at Urban Green Cranhill Food Growing Project

Creative Carbon Scotland, Open Calls

This post comes from Creative Carbon Scotland

This opportunity comes from Impact Arts with a deadline of 12 noon on 6th May 2015.

Urban Green: Cranhill Food Growing Project is an exciting and innovative programme that aims to transform an underused piece of ground in to a community garden. You will work as part of a team to transform the space and work with local young people and groups to make the project sustainable post March 2016.

This is a partnership project between Thenue Housing Association and Impact Arts and is funded through the Climate Challenge Fund.

The Project Outcomes are as follows:

• Increased knowledge of food production

• increased consumption of locally grown, healthy, low carbon food

• increased energy efficiency awareness

• reduced contribution to landfill

• improved mental & physical health amongst local people

• increased employability of local young people

• increased community awareness of climate change and commitment to minimizing environmental impact

These outcomes will be achieved through the delivery of key projects over the duration of the programme including:

• 2 programmes for people currently unemployed aged 16-24 based on Impact Arts successful Creative Pathways programme

• Community food growing workshops 2 days per week for 9 months for the wider Cranhill community

• Food growing sites will use recycled materials to divert materials from landfill including a creation of artworks

• Creation of composting site to reduce carbon emissions of vegetable waste going to landfill

Your role is to design and deliver a high quality and structured programme, in line with the project objectives.

You will lead and support a group of up to 15 unemployed young people to create food growing sites in the community in a creative and inspiring way.

You will be teaching skills in recycling/upcycling materials, creating public art, environmental awareness and other subject areas as suited to your skill base.

You must have the ability to work with challenging groups and an understanding of the barriers facing young people in gaining and sustaining employment.

For more information and to apply, please visit Impact Arts’ job page.

Image: Flickr Creative Commons/Qtea

 

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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.

In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.

We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.

Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:

Changing their own behaviour;

Communicating with their audiences;

Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.

Go to Creative Carbon Scotland

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Caledonian Everyday Discussions Pt 2 of 3

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Tim Collins and Reiko Goto, Coille Dubh Rainich (The Black Wood of Rannoch), mixed media, 2015. Photo Tim Collins

Should artists seek to change the world?  That’s where the first discussion ended, having explored the history of pit props; the potential for a poet to contribute to the constraints that a forest manager might have to take account of in planning the management of an area of woodland; the development of ecosystems services assessment and in particular the cultural dimension; Gaelic and the subaltern, and how to protect a bramble patch in Central Scotland.  A more reflective and detailed summary of these discussions will be forthcoming in due course.

In the meantime we are very pleased to announce that the next panel (2pm Saturday 9 May 2015, the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall) will have on it:

Beth Carruthers is a philosopher, theorist, artist, and curator known internationally for her work and research over three decades exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the human-world relationship. Her primary focus is on the transformative capacities of aesthetic experience, and of the arts in human relations to environment and other beings. She has collaboratively across the arts and sciences on the SongBird project (1998-2002), and in 2006 created a research report for the Canadian Commission of UNESCO on art in sustainability focused on sci-arts collaboration. She has recently begun a collaboration with a neuropsychologist on a project studying interspecies aesthetic engagement in part by imaging the patterns of human brain response to birdsong. Over the past decade she has been developing a theory of “deep aesthetics”, arising from the aesthetics and ontology of Merleau-Ponty, and studies in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. It proposes that aesthetic engagement is potentially transformative of reductive ontology, and hence of cultural practices, looking toward more sustainable futures (see Carruthers, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2015). Her most recent publication is “A Subtle Activism of the Heart” in Piper and Szabo-Jones, Sustaining the West: Cultural Response to Canadian Environments, from Wilfred Laurier University Press (May 2015). Also note: “Returning the Radiant Gaze: Visual art and embodiment in a world of subjects” in Brady, J., Elemental, from Gaia Project/Cornerhouse (forthcoming). Beth lives in unceded indigenous Coast Salish territory on Canada’s west coast. She is irregular faculty at Emily Carr University of Art + Design at Vancouver Canada, and currently a researcher at the University of British Columbia.

Amy Cutler, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of English, University of Leeds  Amy’s main academic research focuses on modern literature and its engagement with environmental politics and with old and new geographical imaginaries of Britain. Her specialist areas of study are coasts and forests in popular, small press, and avant-garde writing. She writes on problems of language, symbolism, and definition in particular environmental imaginations.  Amy is the lead academic on the new cross-disciplinary White Rose network, Hearts of Oak: Caring for British Woodland, based at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York.

Exif_JPEG_PICTUREMurdo Macdonald, Professor of History of Scottish Art, University of Dundee. Murdo’s doctoral thesis (University of Edinburgh, 1986) explored the relationships between art and science. He was editor of Edinburgh Review from 1990-1994. He is author of Scottish Art in Thames and Hudson’s World of Art series. His recent research focus has been as principal investigator of an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project Window to the West/ Uinneag dhan Àird an Iar: Towards a Redefinition of the Visual within Gaelic Scotland (2005-2011). This is a collaboration between the Visual Research Centre of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee and Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic College in the Isle of Skye. It explores the inter-relationships of contemporary art, Gaelic language and culture, and art history. A further research interest is in the generalist ideas of the cultural activist and ecologist Patrick Geddes.

Scott Donaldson, Creative Scotland.  Scott is responsible for film education and environmental development.  Scott studied literature, film, education and environmental management. He taught photography and media in London colleges and Scottish universities, photographed for Scottish Natural Heritage and programmed cinema and education at macrobert. From 1997 – 2010 at Scottish Screen, Scott promoted film and moving image education in statutory and tertiary education. Since 2010 at Creative Scotland, he managed the Creative Futures talent development programme and continues to promote film education.

The following and final discussion on 16 May will have a panel of forestry managers and forestry researchers.

You can download the pdf of the exhibition publication SylvaCaledoniaCatalogue

For those of you who are observant you’ll notice that we have reduced the number of discussions from four to three – the one this Saturday 25 April has been cancelled.  Look forward to seeing you on 9 May.

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