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Out Now CSPA Q8: International Issue – The Sea is Rising

July 11, 2012Announcements, QuarterlyAbundance, Amanda Gartman, Anniversary, Art, Art And Science, Audience, Bilodeau, Chantal Bilodeau, Christopher Robbins, CSPA, Digital Editions, Emotions, Eve, Eve Mosher, Ghana Think Tank, Green, Highwaterline Learning Project, Ian Garrett, Interdependence, International, Intersection Science, Liz Ward, Miranda Wright, Mosher, National Borders, Oceans, Performance Pieces, Pilot Issue, Plunge, Public Art, Science And Culture, Sea Rise, sustainability, Sustainability In Theater, theater, Water Ice

CSPA Quarterly #8 is now available for purchase through MagCloud. Members, your print and digital editions will find their ways to you shortly!.

Our third international issue focuses on projects that call attention to topics that extend well beyond national borders. With a focus on interdependence, and an abundance of contributions about water, ice, and sea rise, this issue addresses the space between national borders- our oceans. Featuring work from Moe Beitiks, Chantal Bilodeau, Eve Mosher, Michael Pinksy, Christopher Robbins, and Liz Ward.

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UPCOMING ISSUES

Q9 Intersection: Science and Culture

Weâ€™ve been noticing a flurry of work that exists at the intersection between art and science. This includesÂ installation and performance pieces that challenge scientific claims, and work that utilizes science to prove aÂ point, or to reach a new audience. Itâ€™s about fact-imbedded art, or emotions and reasoning co-existing.

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Our tenth issue anniversary! For this issue, we will breathe new life into our pilot issue, and will check in withÂ those participating artists.

Plunge by Michael Pinsky

February 13, 2012Ashden DirectoryArtist Michael, Associate Editor, Central London, Climate Change, Duke Of York, Features Interviews, Interviews News, Led Lights, Metaphors, Michael Pinsky, Monuments In London, Nbsp, Pillar, Plunge, Public Art, Robert Butler, Sea Level, Seven Dials, Six Ways, Square Column

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Michael Pinsky’s Plunge, on three monuments in London

In a collaboration among LIFT, Artsadmin., and IMAGINE 2020, artist Michael Pinsky was commissioned to create a new work of public art in central London. Today the project is launched and will remain on view through 4 March. Blue circles of LED lights have been placed on the Seven Dials Sundial Pillar, the Duke of York Column, and the Paternoster Square Column indicating the height of the sea level one thousand years from now, if climate change continues unchecked.

Though thousands of people pass these monuments every day, Pinsky’s art allows people to see them in a new (blue) light.

Together, the Plunge monuments create an arc across central London, following the line of a future Thames that has swallowed much of the capital in its wake.

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ashdenizen is edited by Robert Butler, and is the blog associated with the Ashden Directory, a website focusing on environment and performance.
The Ashden Directory is edited by Robert Butler and Wallace Heim, with associate editor Kellie Gutman. The Directory includes features, interviews, news, a timeline and a database of ecologically – themed productions since 1893 in the United Kingdom. Our own projects include ‘New Metaphors for Sustainability’, ‘Flowers Onstage’ and ‘Six ways to look at climate change and theatre’.

The Directory has been live since 2000.

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Art for oil; protest and dystopianism

January 15, 2010news, RSA Arts & EcologyAmp, Beehive, Casebook, Comedian Mark Thomas, Depiction, Diary, Dystopianism, Ecology, Holding Company, Illustrations, Inoue, Late Afternoon, London, Opera, Peter Kennard, Plunge, Protest, Real Energy, Resolve, Ruins Of St Paul, Shells, Snapshot, Squint, St Pauls, Visions

St Pauls â€“ a late afternoon plunge, from Flooded London, 2009 by Squint Opera, a series imagining London in 2090.

TheÂ 2010 Art For Oil Diary isÂ available now, price Â£5, full of illustrations likeÂ Squint Operaâ€™s depiction of a man diving into the flooded ruins of St Paulâ€™s Cathedral in a London flooded by rising waters. Itâ€™s a good snapshot of art as agitprop, containing works byÂ Peter Kennard & Cat Picton Phillipps,Â Beehive Collective,Â Pedro Inoue and theÂ Ultimate Holding Company.

If you want to argue that agit-prop strenghtens the resolve of the converted and increases the distance between them and those whose minds really do need to change then this is a casebook study, but hey, as a mass of work it does have real energy. The works that donâ€™t beat you over the head with visions of a dystopian future often work better, like UHCâ€™sÂ trees breathe, ads suck taken from theirÂ Spring Shrouds series, originally commissioned by agit-comedian Mark Thomas, in which the Manchester collective covered 100 ad shells with plain white shrouds.

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