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U-n-f-o-l-d. A Cultural Response to Climate Change

April 4, 2011Cultura21Art Exhibition, Berlin Germany, Cape Farewell, Chicago Il Usa, Climate Change, Columbia College Chicago, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Curtain Gallery, De Haas, Glass Curtain, Ian Mcewan, Jorge Orta, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Kt Tunstall, Lemn Sissay, Leslie Feist, Mexico City, Museum Of Contemporary Photography, Nick Edwards, Oleg, Paris France, Robyn Hitchcock, Sacha, Sam Collins, Shiro Takatani, South Michigan, South Wabash, sunand prasad

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Art exhibition and various events at Columbia College Chicago â€“ March 14â€“April 23, 2011

Museum of Contemporary Photography (600 South Michigan Avenue) â€“ Glass Curtain Gallery (1104 South Wabash Avenue), Chicago, IL (USA)

U-n-f-o-l-d. A Cultural Response to Climate Change presents the work of twenty-five artists who participated in Cape Farewell expeditions to the Andes and the High Arctic. Each artist witnessed firsthand the dramatic and fragile environmental tipping points of climate change.

Featured Artists: Ackroyd & Harvey, Amy Balkin, David Buckland, Adriane Colburn, Sam Collins, Nick Edwards, Leslie Feist, Francesca Galeazzi, Nathan Gallagher, Marjie de Haas, Robyn Hitchcock + KT Tunstall, Ian McEwan, Brenndan McGuire, Daro Montag, MichÃ¨le Noach, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Sunand Prasad, Tracey Rowledge, Lemn Sissay, Shiro Takatani, Clare Twomey and Chris Wainwright.

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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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David Buckland: The Art of Climate Change

December 2, 2010newsCape Farewell, Challenges, Climate Change, Collaboration, Creative Places, Current Poll, Delegates, Exhib, Facebook, Global Warming, Ground Breaking, Innovation, International Reputation, Jarvis Cocker, Keynote Speakers, Knowledge Exchange, Kt Tunstall, Lemn Sissay, Regular Diet, Relevant Conference, Scientists, Society Resources, Sustainable Society, Worldwide Activity, Www Kttunstall

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ifhfCnLUZQ

David Buckland is an artist with an international reputation. In 2000 he created and now directs the Cape Farewell project, which brings artists, scientists and educators together to collectively address and raise awareness about climate change. This highly successful artistic intervention has spurred worldwide activity and underlines the power of artistic engagement to stimulate and vision the necessary cultural shift to build a sustainable and exciting society.

In The Art of Climate Change, David explores what happens when artists collaborate with scientists and educators in response to global warming. Cape Farewells highly successful artistic intervention has spurred worldwide activity and underlines the power of artistic engagement to stimulate and envision the necessary cultural shift to build a sustainable society.

Resources:

Twitter: @capefarewell

Facebook Group: Cape Farewell

Cape Farewell: www.capefarewell.com

David Buckland: www.bucklandart.com/

Background:

In October 2009 delegates from across Canada and beyond joined Artscape in Toronto for our third Creative Places + Spaces: The Collaborative City conference. In a packed two-day program inspirational keynote speakers and ground breaking projects made the case for the power of collaboration to solve complex multi dimensional challenges and to fuel innovation. www.creativeplacesandspaces.ca

Over the next few months “The Campaign of Ideas: Video Knowledge Exchange” series will bring you a regular diet of conference highlights focusing on the major themes of the conference and some of the tools for collaboration that were presented.

Respond to Our Current Poll: Visit the Creative Places + Spaces website at www.creativeplacesandspaces.ca and tell us what you think is the most practical and relevant conference learning on the theme of Collaboration Fuels Innovation. The poll is located on the lower right-hand side of the website.

Keep Informed About Creative Places + Spaces:

You can follow us on Twitter @CPandS, use #CPandSâ€³ in your tweets and join in the conversation on Facebook, Flickr and YouTube. The Creative Places + Spaces website will be updated often, so be sure to check back for updates or subscribe to our RSS Feed or Email Updates. www.creativeplacesandspaces.ca

Creative Places + Spaces was presented by Artscape in collaboration with MaRS Discovery District, Martin Prosperity Institute and the City of Toronto: Economic Development, Culture & Tourism.

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Think. Create. Collaborate.

LONG HORIZONS: An exploration of Art and Climate Change

April 12, 2010AnnouncementsAntony Gormley, Art Artists, Behavioural Change, British Council, Change Agenda, Climate Change, Creative Solutions, Diana Liverman, Emotional Engagement, Global Arts, Global Scale, Horizons, Jackson Professor, Jay Griffiths, Kt Tunstall, Local Solutions, Locality, Personal Reflections, Professor Tim, Tim Jackson

Long Horizons is a collection of personal reflections about art, artists and climate change. Commissioned by the British Council working withÂ Julieâ€™s Bicycle the piece includes contributions from Antony Gormley, Jay Griffiths, Professor Tim Jackson, Professor Diana Liverman and KT Tunstall.

Click here to download Long Horizons as a pdf.

Antony Gormley’s essay appears inÂ The Guardian Review on Saturday February 13th.

You can read the full article by clicking here.

Click here to read a blog post on Long Horizons by Michaela Crimmin, Director of Arts, RSA.

Arts, Climate Change and Sustainability

Climate change is one of the defining issues of the age. It is affecting, or will affect, everyone on the planet, though differences in infrastructure and locality profoundly affect vulnerability. One size will not fit all and local communities will need to find creative solutions that respond to their specific vulnerabilities and needs. The impact of climate change will be social and cultural as well as environmental and economic, and solutions need to be social and cultural as well as technical and scientific.

Arts, Climate Change and Sustainability is a British Council programme aimed at harnessing the inspirational qualities of the arts, along with the trust felt towards artists, to demystify and energise the debate about climate change. By energising and invigorating others, it will help find creative and local solutions to the challenge of climate security and encourage the necessary behavioural change in the UK and internationally. Art and artists can help move the climate change agenda from intellectual understanding to emotional engagement, and then on to action.

Just as the challenge of climate change is international and inter-connected in nature, so is the global arts market, and any attempt to create change needs to happen on a global scale. The British Council, with its vast network, is one of the very few agencies able to create dialogues and communities of interest around this subject with leaders and opinion-formers in governments, funding agencies, NGOs, and our cultural analogues in the UK and worldwide. These institutions and individuals share an interest in the support and promotion of their artistsâ€™ work, and we will work with them to strengthen understanding of the role that artists can play in the fight against climate change, and the need to support and encourage that role. This will include working together to facilitate sustainable practices around the international presentation and touring of art and artists.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/climatechange-longhorizons.htm