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Happy New Year from the Los Angeles Urban Rangers!

February 1, 2010AnnouncementsAbeyta, Almere, Art Center, Art Park, Coastal Conservancy, Continuing Development, Curated, Driggs, Happy New Year, Homefront, International Architecture, Lewis Miller, Michael Lewis, Municipal Art Gallery, Public Beaches, Public Space, Ranger Station, Spanish Version, Urban Rangers, Vacant Lot

We’re pleased to kick off 2010 on the homefront with two exciting exhibitions, coming up just around the corner:

Come see our work and that of other participatory based projects inÂ Actions,Â Conversations, and IntersectionsÂ at the LA Municipal Art Gallery atÂ Barnsdall Art ParkÂ fromÂ January 24 – April 18, curated by Edith Abeyta and Michael Lewis Miller.Â The opening reception is Sunday, January 31st from 2-5pm. Check out this link for more events and weekly goings on around the exhibition.
http://www.actionsconversationsintersections.com/
http://www.culturela.org/lamag/Home.html
OurÂ Portable Ranger StationÂ is winging its way back from the 2009 International Architecture Biennale RotterdamÂ en route to Tijuana! Stop by Performing Public Space, curated by Owen Driggs, at La Casa de TÃºnel: Art Center from February 6 – March 21. Leave your transit behind and just walk across the border. Other artists in the show include Fallen Fruit, Lauren Bon, and Jane Tsong, among others.
http://cofac101.org/casa.htm
The new year promises new investigations as well. We are currently working withÂ theÂ University of California’s InstituteÂ for Research in the Arts on a major project for the UC’s Natural Reserve System,Â returning to the Netherlands next summer to build a field guide for our trail system in Almere’s favorite vacant lot, andÂ continuing development of a series of programs for our very ownÂ Downtown Los Angeles.
Finally, thanks to support from the Coastal Conservancy, we will be wrapping up our highly successful Malibu Public Beaches program next month! The newly translated Spanish version of our informative map and guide is hot off the presses, and will be distributed throughout LA County and on the Metro 534 line, and of course, available on our website. Our very last public safari is tentatively scheduled for the last weekend in February. Stay tuned!

Ever onward,

Los AngelesÂ Urban Rangers
http://www.laurbanrangers.org

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Call for artists: ‘â€¦Louder than Bombs’: Art, Action & Activism – 4 Dec

November 21, 2009Ashden DirectoryAction Activism, Activism, Art Action, Art Development, Artist Group, Curated, Global Issues, How To Make A Proposal, Intersections, Kingston University London, Kyoto Seika University, Live Art Development, Live Art Development Agency, Louder Than Bombs, Participatory Workshop, Personal Causes, Private Memory, Seven Weeks, Space Resources, Supportive Environment, Uk Www, University Japan

‘â€¦Louder than Bombs’: Art, Action & Activism

Live Art Development Agency and Stanley Picker Gallery
call for artists: 4 December deadline
event: February – March 2010

Over the course of seven weeks in February – March 2010, theÂ Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University, will host a series of week-long residencies entitledÂ ‘â€¦Louder than Bombs’: Art, Action & Activism.

Co-curated withÂ Live Art Development Agency, ‘â€¦Louder than Bombs’: Art, Action & Activism will focus on challenging social, political, global issues addressed by seven invited artist/activists, working in a series of weekly occupancies of the space.

The issues addressed by the programme of activities will include a range of political, ecological, social and personal causes, as to be defined by the seven participating individuals and groups.

The programme will provide each participating artist/group with the space, resources and supportive environment for their work to be developed over an intensive five-day period. During their week-long residency each participant will be required to deliver at least one participatory workshop and a public event.

One of the seven invited projects will be developed to engage directly with a local primary school, in order to pilot the introduction of performative practice into the classroom.

‘â€¦Louder than Bombs’: Art, Action & Activism has been developed as part of the research project, ‘The Art of Intervention: The Intersections of Public and Private Memory’ between Kingston University, London and Kyoto Seika University, Japan.

For information on how to make a proposal, email:Â picker@kingston.ac.uk .

www.thisisliveart.co.uk

The Big Draw under The Black Cloud

October 16, 2009news, RSA Arts & EcologyBig Black, Black Artwork, Black Cloud, Black Projects, Bristol, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Climate Change, Curated, Drawing, Ecology Centre, Heather, Ivan, Morison, Public Shelter, RSA Arts & Ecology, Themes, Uncertain Future

Two projects weâ€™ve been involved with came together in a good way this weekend. The idea forThe Black Cloud, the public shelter artwork created by Heather and Ivan Morison emerged out of a Bristol residency the RSA Arts & Ecology Centre organised back in 2007, with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Curated byÂ Situations, the shelter has been hosting a series of community events based loosely on how we imagine our uncertain future â€“ all held literally underÂ The Black Cloud.Â After the discussion it was also host toÂ The Big Draw, the Campaign For Drawingâ€™s great project to get as many people drawing as possible. This year is their tenth year and they asked The RSA Arts & Ecology Centre to pick one of the themes; we choseÂ Look to the future: work together to combat climate change.

Michaela Crimmin, Head of Arts at the RSA was down there this weekend and took this on her phone.

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Cycle-powered cinema: Nottinghamâ€™s Hinterland 2009

August 23, 2009news, RSA Arts & EcologyBanks Of The River, Chris Marker, Cinema, Curated, Ecology, Emily Richardson, Fernando Sanchez, Friday Night, fun, Gardener Cook, George Barber, Hinterland, Hulse, John Cage, John Chapman, John Smith, Joost Van, Mischa, Mixture, Nottingham, Notts, River Trent, Simeone, Syson, Taking Art, Van Veen

â€¦talking of taking art to the waterfront,Â this looks like fun. Hinterland 2009, a season of site-specific projects alongside the River Trent, Notts, curated by Jennie Syson opens on Friday night with a cycle-powered cinema located somewhere on the banks of the river. Annexinema features a mixture of new and old work by John Cage, Margaret Tait, Fernando Sanchez, John Smith, Mischa Leinkauf & Matthias Wermke, Chris Marker, John Chapman & Frank Simeone, Ben Rivers, George Barber, Emily Richardson, Matt Hulse & Joost Van Veen plus live music from Zelig. The event is preceeded by a foraging walk and talk led by artist/activist/gardener/cookÂ Rebecca Beinart.

The full programme of events looks interesting too.
http://www.hinterlandprojects.com/

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Natural Balance installations in Spain

May 7, 2009newsAparicio, Blurb, Bower, Curated, De Hoop, Ecological Systems, Flower Festival, Girona Spain, Hovey, Human Perception, Karrie, Natural Balance, Sabadell, Samantha Clark, Sustainable System, System Creation, Troncoso, Urban Landscape, Yolanda, Zuloaga

{Grow Your Own Vegetables by Harmen de Hoop.}

A show with six temporary installations opens this week in Girona, Spain. Coinciding with the annual Temps de Flors Flower Festival, the pieces all deal with natural balance. In addition, there’s a nice website where all of us online can get a good feel for the show.

Here’s a blurb from the show:

The concept of Natural Balance is central to any sustainable system. Creation and destruction are inseparable forces that often function simultaneously. Humans play an increasingly influential role in affecting ecological systems on a local and global scale. Artists, in particular, have an important role to play in transforming human perception and mediating our understanding of the urban landscape.Â

Curated by LluÃs Sabadell Artiga, Yolanda de Zuloaga and Sam Bower.

Projects by:

Harmen de Hoop,
Lucrecia Troncoso and Karrie Hovey,
Samantha Clark,
Terry Berlier,
Jeanette Ramirez,
Isidro LÃ³pez-Aparicio

> Read more at hibrids.net

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APInews: Michigan Prisoners Address Climate Crisis

April 6, 2009newsAddress Climate, Commutation, Creative Arts, Curated, Duderstadt, Global Climate Crisis, Jackson Prison, Janie, Jason Wright, Keynote Speech, Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan Prisoners, Panel Discussion, Pbs, Pbs Documentary, Prisoners Art, Prisons, Professors, University Of Michigan, University Of Michigan Ann Arbor, William Ayers

April 8, 2009, is the last day of the 14th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, this year showing works addressing the global climate crisis. The show, presented annually by the Prison Creative Arts Project PCAP, opened March 24 at the Duderstadt Center Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Curated by UM Professors Buzz Alexander, Janie Paul and Jason Wright, it shows 300 works by 200 artists from 40 prisons. Events included a keynote speech by Chicago Citizen of the Year William Ayers, a panel discussion on women and children inside prison, a speak-out by Detroit youth, an artists talkback, a conversation about Michigan Parole and Commutation Board practices, a film about art inside Jackson Prison and release of the first annual Literary Review of Writing by Michigan Prisoners. “Acts of Art,” a PBS documentary about PCAP, was broadcast across Michigan in March and April.

via APInews: Michigan Prisoners Address Climate Crisis .