Culture And Politics

Enlivenment. Towards a fundamental shift in the concepts of nature, culture and politics

May 31, 2013Cultura21Andreas Weber, Berlin Germany, Commodity, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Culture And Politics, Ecology Series, Foundational Assumptions, Francesca, Free Market Approach, Fundamental Shift, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Vitality

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A new publication in the Ecology Series at Heinrich Boell Foundation, by Andreas Weber

â€œPeople often call for â€œchanging the systemâ€ and seek to reform the â€œfree marketâ€ approach that turns everything, including life itself, into a commodity. But it is impossible to alter our prevailing â€œoperating systemâ€ for economics, politics and culture if the underlying â€œbiosâ€ â€“Â our unexamined, foundational assumptions about reality â€“ remain the same. And that is literally our biggest problem today: our understanding of â€œbiosâ€, the nature of lifeÂ itself, is wrongâ€ (Andreas Weber).

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

Cultura21â€²s 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 LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (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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Fallen Fruit: SHOW US HOW YOU EAT

April 16, 2010newsArt Culture, Contact, Culture And Politics, E Mail Address, Endless Images, Endless Stream, Exhibition, Food Art, Fruits, Inclusion, June 27, Lacma, Meditation, Mouths, Ongoing Project, Participants, Participatory, Presents, Video Project, Youtube

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Fallen Fruit introduces Show Us How You Eat, a participatory online video project, 2010, and is seeking your videos of eating, up to 60 seconds in length.

Though there are endless images of food in art, and even still images of food in peoples mouths, we realize there is very little documentation of people actually eating. In Show Us How You Eat we solicit participants around the world on YouTube to send us one-minute clips of them eating not preparing, cutting, or cooking, but actually eating, chewing and swallowing food. These clips are combined into an endless stream of smiling mastication, a meditation on the act of eating that connects each and every one of us.

A selection of the videos submitted to Show Us How You Eat will be included in an exhibition, Fallen Fruit Presents The Fruit of LACMA (June 27-November 7, 2010), as part of EATLACMA, a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics.

HOW TO ENTER

Contact information: In order for your work to be considered please include your name and e-mail address with your entry.

Deadline: This is an ongoing project, but in order to be considered for inclusion in the Fallen Fruit Presents the Fruits of LACMA exhibition, submit your entry before May 31.

MORE INFO HERE:Â YouTube – SHOW US HOW YOU EAT.

Fallen Fruit Presents EAT LACMA

January 9, 2010EcoLOGIC LAArt Culture, Collectives, Common Ground, Culture And Politics, Curator, David Burns, Exhibition, Food Art, Human Relationships, June 27, Lacma, Matias, Michele, Museum Campus, Presents, Richness, Social Role

Februaryâ€“November 2010

EAT LACMA is a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics. Fusing the richness of LACMA’s permanent collection with the ephemerality of food and the natural growth cycle, EAT LACMA’s projects consider food as a common ground that explores the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships. EAT LACMA unfolds seasonally, with artist’s gardens planted and harvested on the museum campus, hands-on public events, and a concurrent exhibition, Fallen Fruit Presents The Fruit of LACMA (June 27-November 7, 2010). It culminates in a day-long event (November 7, 2010) in which over fifty artists and collectives will activate, intervene, and re-imagine the entire museum’s campus and galleries. EAT LACMA is curated by Fallen Fruitâ€”David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Youngâ€”and LACMA curator Michele Urton.

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