Ian Garrett

REQUESTS FOR QUALIFICATIONS – CURRENT:LA WATER Production Manager and Program Providers

Open Calls

TWO OPPORTUNITIES - REQUESTS FOR QUALIFICATIONS [RFQ]

CURRENT:LA WATER CALL FOR PRODUCTION MANAGER – DUE DEC 14, 2015 at 1PM
CURRENT:LA WATER CALL FOR PUBLIC PROGRAM PROVIDERS – DUE DEC 14, 2015 at 1PM

CALL FOR PRODUCTION MANAGER

LOS ANGELES LAUNCHES FIRST PUBLIC ART BIENNIAL

SUMMER 2016

CITY of LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT of CULTURAL AFFAIRS

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

BACKGROUND

In June 2015, the City of Los Angeles was selected as one of four cities to receive up to $1 million as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge, a new program to support temporary public art projects that celebrate creativity, enhance urban identity, encourage public-private partnerships and drive economic development. LA’s winning project, CURRENT:LA Water, will establish the City’s first Public Art Biennial for Los Angeles.

Developed by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Public Art Division, CURRENT:LA is an ongoing, biannual temporary public art initiative that aims to establish a new paradigm for public art in Los Angeles, one that is transformative and contributes to the creation of social capital and public discourse on shared issues locally, nationally, and globally. CURRENT:LA seeks to maximize the potential for public art to create dialogue and help change how we understand and respond to those issues. The inaugural presentation will respond to the issue of water and take place for one month in late summer 2016. Led by DCA’s Public Art Division, the initiative will utilize public sites throughout LA to present temporary public artworks and public programming to generate civic discourse on the issue of water and allied topics such as infrastructure, drought, ecology, and conservation, among others.

DESCRIPTION OF OPPORTUNITY

Through this Request for Qualifications (RFQ), DCA is seeking submissions from qualified production management professionals, including individuals, teams and firms, to oversee all technical and operational aspects as required for fifteen (15) CURRENT:LAWater sites located throughout the City of Los Angeles. The selected respondent will be awarded a City contract to provide services in consultation with DCA, City representatives and other City contractors including visual artists, public program providers and a location manager.

ELIGIBILITY

This RFQ is open to professional production management individuals, teams and firms based in the County of Los Angeles, and with at least five (5) consecutive years of paid experience in production management in an external environment. Employees of the City of Los Angeles are ineligible to apply.

For further details please refer to the full RFQ document available online.

The deadline for proposal submissions is  Monday, December 14, 2015.

CALL FOR PUBLIC PROGRAM PROVIDERS

LOS ANGELES LAUNCHES FIRST PUBLIC ART BIENNIAL

SUMMER 2016

CITY of LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT of CULTURAL AFFAIRS

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

BACKGROUND

In June 2015, the City of Los Angeles was selected as one of four cities to receive up to $1 million as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge, a new program to support temporary public art projects that celebrate creativity, enhance urban identity, encourage public-private partnerships and drive economic development. LA’s winning project, CURRENT:LA Water, will establish the City’s first Public Art Biennial for Los Angeles.

Developed by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Public Art Division, CURRENT:LA is an ongoing, biannual temporary public art initiative that aims to establish a new paradigm for public art in Los Angeles, one that is transformative and contributes to the creation of social capital and public discourse on shared issues locally, nationally, and globally. CURRENT:LA seeks to maximize the potential for public art to create dialogue and help change how we understand and respond to those issues. The inaugural presentation will respond to the issue of water and take place for one month in late summer 2016. Led by DCA’s Public Art Division, the initiative will utilize public sites throughout LA to present temporary public artworks and public programming to generate civic discourse on the issue of water and allied topics such as infrastructure, drought, ecology, and conservation, among others.

DESCRIPTION OF OPPORTUNITY

Through this Request for Qualifications (RFQ), DCA is seeking submissions from nonprofit organizations, individual artists and artist teams interested in developing and executing free public programs that will offer LA’s diverse residents and visitors a range of unique opportunities for engagement with water-related issue(s) and/or the temporary public art projects commissioned from other artists/teams as part of CURRENT:LA Water. Each public program selected to receive a funding award as a result of this RFQ will be presented at a site located within the City of Los Angeles for a maximum duration/time-frame of one (1) month. The public programs selected for CURRENT:LA Water may include a variety of pop-up programming approaches such as workshops, discussions, film/video screenings, mobile activities, performances, readings, speakers and/or symposia.

ELIGIBILITY

This RFQ is open to nonprofit organizations in any field, individual artists, and artist teams based in the County of Los Angeles. Respondents selected through this RFQ will be eligible to receive, but are not guaranteed, funding awards for public programs to be presented as part of CURRENT:LA Water. Artist team members and project team member(s) for a nonprofit organization may not change prior to the execution of a commissioned public program. Nonprofit organizations, artists and artist teams pre-qualified for other DCA-administered public art opportunities, or active DCA grantees, are not prevented from responding to this RFQ. Employees of the City of Los Angeles are ineligible.

For further details please refer to the full RFQ document available online.

The deadline for proposal submissions is Monday, December 14, 2015.

Transcribing Landscape (portraits and tales) residential short course

Open Calls

Monday 20 – Friday 24 June 2016

Join us for this residential week as we explore our relationship with landscape; part of Schumacher College’s Art and Ecology Programme.  Transcribing Landscape is led by poet Fiona Benson and artist-researcher Richard Povall. Our special guest is the renowned photographic artist Garry Fabian Miller.< How do we mark the world around us, and how does it mark us? The narrative of landscape exposes how we feel about our planet, how we act in it, how we care for it, how it moves us. Deeper forms of connection to the non-human through word, act, and imagining help us find other forms of knowledge and ways of being in the world. Can we gain new understandings of the ecology of our planet and our world at a time when this seems perhaps more important than ever? Science and its knowledges are failing to move us, to jolt us into feeling the fragility of the planet in which we all live, despite the clarity of their evidences and the increasing baldness of their language. You will spend time in the landscape of the beautiful and diverse estate at Dartington Hall, walking, listening, meditating, making, marking, exploring, accepting, questioning, and writing. There will also be time for private making as well as group sessions and critiques. The course links to a two-day symposium the following week (June 29-30) entitled ‘Language, Landscape and the Sublime’ which picks up on many of the themes you can explore in this short course. Find more information at www.languagelandscape.info.

Go to https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/short-courses for more information. Places are limited.

CfP: Performance Climates Expanded Scenography Panel

Open Calls

Call for papers, presentations and provocations

PSi ‘Performance Climates’ Expanded Scenography Panel

Conveners: Ian Garrett and Tanja Beer

Provocation: In recent years, scenographic practice and performance design have increasingly moved beyond the theatre towards greater forms of hybridity. Traditional theatre spaces and contexts are being rapidly replaced in favour of participatory experiences, transdisciplinary practices, urban interventions and community platforms that also engage with social and environmental issues. Possibilities are expanding to use scenographic strategies (i.e. spatial, narrative, dramaturgical, performative and multi-sensory) as a way of engaging with the world beyond the theatre. In responding to the ‘Performance Climates’ conference theme, this panel seeks to consider our embodied and spatial relationship to global issues and provoke new forms of permeability and transdisciplinarity. We ask: Can scenographic methodologies and practices play a role in revealing ecological complexity – provoking emotional connections that elucidate the concept of environmental and social cohesion and resilience? The aim of the panel is to present an international group of hybrid researcher/creators exploring the boundaries of projects that problematize scenography and performance, and its relationship to greater ecologies and environments.

We welcome papers that intersect with the expanded realm of scenography and the Psi ‘Performance Climates’ theme (http://www.psi2016.com) including: performance, architecture, visual art, choreography, dramaturgy, new technologies, multimedia and community practice. We will be working towards an edited publication on this subject. Depending on interest, our aim is to set up a small symposium-like session on this topic.

If you would like to join us, please get in touch or submit a short abstract and bio to Ian Garret igarrett@yorku.ca and Tanja Beer tanjabeer_design@yahoo.com.au by Sunday the 13th of December.

Participants Confirmed:

Ian Garrett, York University (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Tanja Beer, University of Melbourne (Australia)

Gwenyth Dobie, York University (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Sydney Skybetter, Skybetter & Associates, Harvard, Boston Conservatory (Providence, RI)

Photo credit: Nick Roux (The Peoples Weather Report, Arts House 2014)

EcoStage Pledge Launches with #ArtCOP21 #cop21

ArtCOP, EcoStage Pledge

Every industry must engage with the reality of ecological consequences and the performing arts can be a unique and powerful platform to imagine and inspire new realities. The ecostage pledge is about commitment and values, because with a conscious set of shared values we have a greater capacity to take action.

What: The ecostage pledge (www.ecostagepledge.com) is a new global initiative for the performing arts sector that aims to place ecological thinking at the heart of creative practice.

Why: Envisioned as a public declaration and conversation starter to help raise awareness of ecological issues, the pledge is intended as a platform for advocating change. It consists of a set of ecological values and provocations aimed at engaging with ecological practice as a creative endeavour that deepens our relationship to the more-than-human world.

Who: The pledge is for performance makers, directors, designers, choreographers, producers, administrators, technicians, video and sound artists, performers and playwrights (basically anyone who is passionate about sustainability in the performing arts!).

How: To join a community of ecologically-minded theatre makers, go to www.ecostagepledge.com and take the pledge and download the ‘ecostage pledge stamp’.

This initiative has been instigated by three ‘eco-scenographers’ (Tanja Beer, Andrea Carr and Alice Malia) and will be launched globally in 2015/2016. Beginning at ArtCop in Paris on the 4th of December, the ecostage pledge will launch in Australia at Cop-Out (Arts House, Melbourne) on the 11th of December.

Join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter for updates.

Echoing #Cop21, the Palais de Tokyo Presents EXIT | Diller Scofidio + Renfro , Laura Kurgan, Mark Hansen #artcop21

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The Palais de Tokyo is honored to present from November 25, 2015 to January 10, 2016, the innovative installation Exit presented by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. Based on a prompt set out by French philosopher and urbanist Paul Virilio, this experimental work was created by American artists and architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with architect-artistLaura Kurgan and statistician-artist Mark Hansen with a core team of scientists and geographers for the exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject in 2008, and is now part of the Fondation Cartier collection. Exit is composed of a series of immersive animated maps generated by data that investigate human migrations today and their leading causes, including the impacts of climate change. Its complete 2015 update has been planned to coincide with the pivotal Paris-based United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21). A crucial opportunity to limit global warming, the COP21 provides a powerful context in which to consider the issues at the heart of Exit: «It’s almost as though the sky, and the clouds in it and the pollution of it, were making their entry into history. Not the history of the seasons, summer, autumn, winter, but of population flows, of zones now uninhabitable for reasons that aren’t just to do with desertification, but with disappearance, with submersion of land. This is the future.» (Paul Virilio, 2009)

Commissioned by the Fondation Cartier at a time when human migration flows began to take place on an unprecedented scale, Exit was first shown in its space at the end of 2008 as part of the exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject, and subsequently at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen during the COP15 in 2009, and at the inauguration of the AlhondigaBilbao, Bilbao in 2010. Conceived as an artwork, Exit uses geo-coded data that was collected from over 100 sources, processed through a programming language and interpreted visually. The work is a reflection on the notions of being rooted and uprooted, as well as related questions of identity, Native Land addressed issues that have continued to intensify. The current asylum crisis makes the 2015 presentation of Exit more timely and relevant than ever.

Exit takes form in an immersive space that presented a 360° projection of six animated and thematic maps: Population Shifts: Cities; Remittances: Sending Money Home; Political Refugees and Forced Migration; Natural Catastrophes; Rising Seas, Sinking Cities; Speechless and Deforestation (created in collaboration with AlhondigaBilbao and Unesco).

Using a wide array of sources ranging from international organizations to NGOs and research centers, Exit provides the rare opportunity to visually understand the complex relationships between the various factors underpinning contemporary human migrations. The work has been entirely updated, reflecting the alarming evolution of the data since it was first presented in 2008. In each of the six maps, the connection between humans and their environment has degraded considerably over the past seven years. The number of people displaced by wars, persecutions and violence has reached an all-time peak since the end of World War II, leading to a major political crisis here in Europe, though most of those displaced are hosted in developing countries. Urbanization and large-scale deforestation in tropical countries have continued at a riveting pace, leading to the uprooting of an increasing number of indigenous communities and the resulting loss of their native languages. Current pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions are judged widely insufficient to achieve the goal of a maximum temperature increase of 2°C by the end of the century, and scenarios of a global warming that could reach 4°C or even 6°C are no longer considered science-fiction.

The success or failure of the COP21 negotiations will be felt for years to come, and will contribute to the course of the planet. Showing Exit for a two-month period at Palais de Tokyo within this context is not just an important artistic event, but also a call to action, as the updated data paints the picture of movement across the globe today. The pixels making up each map represent human experiences, and reveal that our present relationship to our native land is based less on our attachment to a particular place than on our movement across the globe today. The pixels making up each map represent human experiences, and reveal that our present relationship to our native land is based less on our attachment to a particular place than on our movement across it.

The post Echoing Cop21, the Palais de Tokyo Presents EXIT | Diller Scofidio + Renfro , Laura Kurgan, Mark Hansen appeared first on MELD.

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meld was formed by a devoted group of individuals guided by a passionate belief in the power of art to convey personal experience and cultivate social progress. meld is inspired by the idea that when art melds into the public realm, it has the power to reach people beyond the traditional limitations of class, age, race and education and encourage public action.

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Blued Trees Emergency Crowdfunder! #artcop21 #cop21

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Nine people were arrested trying to protect the land under the Blued Trees Overture from pipeline corporations because they know that fossil fuels and “natural gas” are destroying the earth. Spectra Energy, developer of the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline expansion, is ignoring our cease and desist notification issued to protect the copyrighted Blued Trees Overture which had been lovingly and joyously created during the 2015 Summer Solstice by 20 men, women and children. Other folks taking part in the Blued Trees project are at various stages of painting at nine sites around the nation. This fundraiser would help pay for the legal research umbrella for all the sites and protect them from unconscionable eminent domain takings.

Blued Trees is on the frontline, demanding that eminent domain be reserved for the public good, not private profit! Our historic legal strategy aims to protect ALL the Blued Trees sites. We urgently need to raise $5,000 so our legal team can continue this new stage of its critical work.

The future of this unique, innovative legal challenge to corporate control of our communities depends on the commitment of people like you, who love nature and art. 

We really, really need you. Please visit the crowdfunding site by clicking here: Blued Trees Defense 2. Give as generously as you possibly can and help make history!

Please donate, and share this appeal now with everyone you know who is aware that our fight for the planet is going to come down to something new and untried, because the same old stuff does not work when we’re fighting the most powerful, wealthy corporations and their captured policymakers.

For a story about what’s currently happening at the site where the Blued Trees Overture is located, please visit the following link: http://westchester.news12.com/news/nancy-vann-of-cortlandt-manor-blocks-tree-removal-in-pipeline-controversy-1.11143447

Human Hotel is a hospitality platform for passionate people. #COP21 #ArtCOP21

ArtCOP, Open Calls

Human Hotel is a hospitality platform for passionate people. Host an NGO organiser in your home during the COP21 Climate Mobilization. 

Our Mission

We help local hosts and visiting guests connect and get more out of the events they both care about. We also make sure it costs very little. Because money is not what we’re passionate about – connecting people is.

Our Story

Born out of a social art practice, Human Hotel began in 2009 as a large-scale effort to secure affordable accommodation for the thousands of NGO’s and climate workers that had nowhere to stay while they attended the United Nations COP15 Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

During the summit, we were able to host more than 3,000 climate workers with local hosts, and therefore made possible an alternative meeting point for amazing people and bright minds.

Since then, we have successfully matched and connected thousands of traveling guests with local hosts for numerous events and organizations such as:

  • People’s Climate March & Mobilization (NYC)
  • Queens Museum Open Engagement Conference (NYC)
  • Creative Time Summit (NYC & Stockholm)
  • European Science Open Forum (Copenhagen)
  • NODE – Forum for Digital Arts (Frankfurt)
  • Rome Independent Film Festival (Rome)
  • US Social Forum (Philadelphia)
  • Copenhagen Gay Pride (Copenhagen)

For Event Organizers

Are you organizing an event and need help with accommodating your guests? Or just want to offer an interesting alternative and tap into your local resources? Send us a message to contact@humanhotel.com and lets start the conversation!

Our Team

Martin Rosengaard (Partnerships)  /  martin@humanhotel.com

William R. Rawlings (Operations)  /  william@humanhotel.com

Sixten Kai Nielsen (Marketing)  /  sixten@humanhotel.com

…and all our wonderfull assistants from Italy, Greece, France, US and Russia!

We’re so social…

Find us on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram.

We love hearing about your Human Hotel experiences so please send us photos, videos and stories to social@humanhotel.com.

Also, feel free to share your moments using our hastags:

#humanhotel   #staywithyourpeople   #shareyourconnection

Our Supporters

The City of Copenhagen

The Chorus Foundation

M.Ed. in Arts for Social Change at Simon Fraser University

Education and Workshops

Get Your Questions Answered and Learn More About our 2016 Curriculum & Instruction: Arts for Social Change Master of Education Program!

The M.Ed. in Arts for Social Change (ASC), the first to be offered in Canada, is designed for artists, educators, change-makers and others who wish to integrate arts-based practices and insights into their work for social change.

In this interdisciplinary program, students will develop and refine skills in arts-infused group facilitation techniques and the integration of ASC processes into diverse agendas for change. Students will have the opportunity to intern with local organizations engaged in arts-based community projects.

Against a backdrop of practical and ethical concerns, and in contexts both local and global, we will explore the arts as catalysts for change in a wide range of settings, among them:

  • education
  • health and well-being
  • intergenerational engagement
  • social and environmental justice
  • community development
  • policy change
  • conflict resolution
  • social innovation and social enterprise

Curriculum & Instruction:

Arts for Social Change

Ideally suited for: practicing artists, art educators at the K-12 and post-secondary levels, community activists, cultural workers, recent graduates and others who wish to integrate the arts and art-making into their work for innovative social change.

  • Location: SFU Vancouver
  • Start Term: Fall 2016
  • End Term: Summer 2018
  • Apply from: November15, 2015
  • Apply by: March 15, 2016
  • Tuition 2015/16: $2,853.80/term

Join us for a Free Information Session

Wed. November 18
SFU Surrey
5–6 PM, Room 2750

Thurs. November 19
SFU Vancouver
5–6 PM, Room 2925

Wed. February 10
SFU Vancouver
5–6 PM, Room 2520

Thurs. February 11
SFU Surrey
5–6 PM, Room 2740

RSVP Today!

Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to earn your Master’s degree with SFU!

Learn in a cohort setting of 18-24 students with classes scheduled in an evening and weekend format to fit the needs of working professionals.

Apply today until March 15, 2016.
With best wishes
Lynn Fels and Judith Marcuse

#ArtCOP21 at the Gaîté lyrique : the Summit on culture during #COP21

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Photo Credit : Mel Chin, The Arctic is Paris. © Ben Premeaux, 2015

ArtCOP21, the Summit on culture during COP21 at the Gaîté lyrique

Everyday, from the 1st to the 11th of December

For 10 days, COAL and the Gaîté lyrique offer an in-depth and varied program that will explore the cultural challenges of climate change.

On this occasion, more than 250 artists, professionals, scientists, thinkers and doers come together to imagine other narratives and perspectives to reinvent new worlds. Meetings, interviews, a two day long professional workshop, screenings and performances punctuate COP21, making the Gaîté lyrique the headquarters of culture for climate.

The regular appointments on the Plateau Média also raise this issue while a resources space (books, magazines, films, documentaries) allows to deepen all discussions.

With : Tomás Saraceno, Encore Heureux, Eva Jospin, Frédéric Ferrer, Kathy Jetnil Kijiner, Gideon Mendel, HeHe, Emilie Hache, Mel Chin, George Steinmann, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Jeremy Leggett, Dominique Bourg, 350.org…

This event is co-produced by COAL and the Gaîté lyrique

Find all the events on artcop21.com, the cultural Agenda of the COP21, an initiative of COAL and Cape Farewell for the COP21.

ON THE AGENDA OF ARTCOP21 AT THE GAÎTÉ LYRIQUE

The Summit of Creatives

Hundreds of designers, artists, architects, scientists and international thinkers, come together to respond to COP21, and imagine together fresh narratives and perspectives to reinvent new worlds at the Summit of Creatives.

This event is co-produced by COAL and the Gaîté lyrique +

  • Everyday from the 1st to the 11th of December. From 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
  • Plateau Média of the Gaîté lyrique
  • Open to the public, free and fully streamed on gaite-lyrique.net and rebroadcast on artcop21.co

The Professional Workshop ArtCOP21

For two days, 150 professionals from thirty countries, in Paris for the Conference for Climate, share their actions and acknowledge the leadership of the cultural sector and its ability to generate answers and stories for the future.

This event is organized by COAL, On the Move, Julie’s bicycle, IFACCA +

  • The 3rd and 4th of December, all day
  • Auditorium and Plateau Média of the Gaîté lyrique
  • Some sessions are closed to the public, the workshop is fully streamed on gaite-lyrique.net and rebroadcast on artcop21.com

More at the Gaîté lyrique

A resources space on ecology and climate will be available at the Gaîté lyrique ; a book signing by Maja & Reuben Fowkes of the Translocal Institute group on the 4th of December at 6:00 pm ; a performance by Heidi Quante and Alicia Escott “Bureau of Linguistical Reality” on the 6th of December from 12:00 am to 7:00 pm ; screening of the film “World Brain” on the 8th of December at 6:00 pm+

  • From the 1st to the 11th of December, Gaîté lyrique

 OTHER ARTCOP21 EVENTS IN PARIS FOR THE COP21

Breaking the Surface by Michael Pinsky at La Villette

Michael Pinsky brings out from deep waters domestic waste dumped by local residents in the Ourcq canal in Paris, revealing the consequences of the trivial gesture of throwing things away, reproduced throughout society.

An event by COAL and La Villette +

  • La Villette, on the Ourcq canal, 25th of November – 3rd of January

RAR, The tree ceremony by Ackroyd & Harvey at Jardin des Plantes

Following the work « 7000 oaks » by Joseph Beuys, the two artists Ackroyd & Harvey perform a monumental installation of a majestic oak in front of a grass drapery in order to celebrate the role of trees in enabling cities to adapt to climate change.

An event by COAL and the National Museum of Natural History of Paris +

  • Jardin des Plantes, 3rd – 12th of December

 Antarctica by Lucy + Jorge Orta at the Ministery of Culture and at the Grand Palais

As part of COP21 Lucy + Jorge Orta will issue tens of thousands of new Antartica World Passports and visitors will be invited to sign a commitment charter for the protection of the environment and for peace.

A co-production by COAL +

  • Ministry of Culture and Communication, Valois street, 16th of November – 3rd of December
  • Grand Palais – Solutions COP21, 4th – 10th of December

The COPBox

This public pop-up space allows citizens to share their ideas about climate change, by recording a personalized video message. Hundreds of messages addressed to the negotiators from 195 countries who are gathering at COP21 will be screened at Espace Génération Climat.

Project designed by COAL and lemoal&lemoal Architects +

  • Tara Pavilion « Ocean & Climate »,
  • Espace Génération Climat, Le Bourget, 30th of November – 11th of December
  • Grand Palais – Solutions COP21, 4th – 10th of December

Urban DataScape by Olga Kisseleva and Etienne Delprat at the Grand Palais

Urban DataScape allows individuals to connect to their urban environment and reveal their collective dimension and systemic issues related to climate. After being presented this summer along the Banks of the Seine, this interactive installation uses QRCode, which offers individuals at the Grand Palais the opportunity to go further on climate issues.

A production by COAL and Berges de Seine +

  • Grand Palais – Solutions COP21, 4th – 10th of December

ARTCOP21 ONLINE – THE GLOBAL CLIMATE ART FESTIVAL

DISCOVER THE CULTURAL PROGRAM OF THE COP21 ON THE PARIS CLIMAT 2015 CULTURAL AGENDA ARTCOP21.COM

Installations, shows, exhibitions, concerts, performances, meetings, screenings, workshops and actions in Paris and right across the globe.ArtCOP21,conceived as a platform for promoting artists and cultural actors involved in the climate challenge, connects thousands of people to climate issues through its online agenda which includes more than 400 events in 50 countries. All these events highlight the need for governments to support major climate action and the end of the fossil fuels era. To make climate change a citizen a people problem, not just one left in the hands of politicians.

ArtCOP21 Paris Climat 2015 Cultural Agenda proposes an exhibition on the windows of the Ministry of Culture and Communication (3, rue de Valois – 75001 Paris)

ARTCOP21

ArtCOP21 is a major global program of actions and artistic and citizen mobilisations, initiated by COAL with its British counterpart Cape Farewell for the COP21. Organized around five strands of action, ArtCOP21 proposes works in the public space, an artistic journey bringing together the best cultural initiatives around COP21and a political agenda of the engaged culture.

PROJETCOAL.ORG – CAPEFAREWELL.COM

More information on ARTCOP21.COM

Unauthorised arts festival in Tate Modern during Paris climate talks 4-6th December #artcop21 #cop21

ArtCOP, Cape Farewell
  • Deadline Festival @Tate takes place exactly a year before Tate’s BP sponsorship deal expires
  • Free programme of events includes poetry, video installations, Caryl Churchill play, artist panels, film screenings, theatre and a ‘seedbombing’ session

Platform London is curating an unauthorised arts festival inside Tate Modern on 4-6 December.[1] Deadline Festival @Tate marks the middle weekend of the COP21 UN climate talks in Paris and the start of Tate’s final year of BP sponsorship under the current deal.

The public programme of events includes video installations, poetry, gallery tours, pop-up theatre, kids creative workshops, film screenings and artist debates. Deadline Festival will use Tate’s gallery spaces to debate questions usually excluded from the gallery, and discuss cultural institutions’ role in tackling climate change. The full programme will be available next week on www.deadline.org.uk

Festival highlights include

  • Capital Culture Climate: with Doreen Massey (Emeritus Professor, Open University), Selina Nwulu (London Young Poet Laureate 2016) and Loraine Leeson (Artist, director of Director cSPACE)
  • Art & Politics – with Julie Ward MEP (Labour), Natalie Bennett (Green Party), Sonia Boyce (artist, Professor)
  • Tickets are now on sale, a short play by Caryl Churchill
  • Performance & Power: with Michael McMillan (playwright, artist, educator), Lucy Ellinson (actor, Grounded), and Feimatta Conteh (sustainability manager, Arcola theatre)
  • Naomi Klein’s climate justice film This Changes Everything
  • Unofficial Translation by Ivo Theatre – COP21 negotiations live translated into performance
  • An open invitation to seed-bomb the plant beds erected in Tate’s Turbine Hall as part of Abraham Cruzvillegas’s Empty Lot

Festival curator Mika Minio-Paluello said “Deadline Festival will be cheeky, serious and unauthorised, and marks Tate’s one year deadline to come off BP sponsorship. We will use Tate’s gallery spaces to debate London’s responsibility to break with fossil fuels and our colonial heritage. We’re bringing together artists and actors, professors and politicians to explore the creative process of building a fossil free culture.”

Tate’s controversial sponsorship deal with BP runs from 2012-2016. Earlier this year, a three-year freedom of information court battle forced Tate to reveal that historically BP’s sponsorship fees amounted to £150,000-£330,000 a year – under 0.5% of Tate’s annual budget.[2]

In September, over 300 artists and cultural organisations including London’s Royal Court Theatre signed a commitment to reject fossil fuel funding.[3]  In November, the Science Museum confirmed that Shell is being dropped as sponsor of its climate change exhibition.[4]

Tate director Nicholas Serota has publicly confirmed that Tate Trustees will be reconsidering BP sponsorship during 2016.

Anna Galkina of Platform added “We’re posing a mainstream cultural challenge to oil sponsorship of our arts. As politicians gather in Paris to discuss planetary deadlines for coming off fossil fuels, and London debates its own role, Tate risks being left behind.”

Contact: Festival Curator Mika Minio-Paluello mika@platformlondon.org / 07733466038

[1] Deadline Festival @Tate is being curated by London-based arts & research organisation Platform, and organised by the Deadline Festival committee and Art not Oil coalition.
[2] http://platformlondon.org/p-pressreleases/tate-forced-to-reveal-bp-sponsorship-details/

[3] See FossilFundsFree.org

[4] http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/13112015-science-museum-has-no-plans-to-renew-deal-with-shell