Caleb Klaces writes: The Age of Stupid uses a dramatic, fictional character to frame a series of apparently disparate contemporary documentaries. Pete Postlethwaite’s man on a chopper looking back from the future, as well as pithy animated sequences explaining the scientific, economic and sociological facts and figures, connects the people …
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How the arts came together over climate
[Crosspost from the Respond! blog] With over 60 events listed in Respond!, it’s clear that there is a huge amount of activity going on in the arts which tackles the environment agenda.
A few key players helped nudge the arts scene towards this subject matter. In a new interview for the …
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The BNP vs the green vote in EU 2009
Everyone’s talking about rise of far-right BNP vote; one thing I haven’t noticed much discussion about is the UK’s green vote.
The Green Party is up but from from 6.2% of the vote to 8.7% of the total, at 1,303,745 votes . In line with their prediction of 9%, this wasn’t …
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Nick Broomfield’s film on Kingsnorth
A Time Comes: The Story of the Kingsnorth Six. A film by Nick Broomfield:
Nick Broomfield: “Obviously, offering your services for a film isn’t exactly direct action, but climate change is a catastrophic situation, and people increasingly need to feel involved themselves, rather than relying on other people to do it …
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Why is so much public art about the past, not the future?
Via Citypollen, a video of Mircea Cantor’s Monument for the end of the world, which the blogger came across as part of Modern Art Oxford’s Transmission Interrupted (which continues until June 21.) And for her it raises an interesting questions. Why are public spaces dominated by thoughts of the past, …
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Should we still be travelling for art’s sake part II
The Ashden Directory have just put out this series of videos, What can be asked? What can be shown? British theatre and performance in the age of climate instability.
The Ashden Directory, who like us are interested in the role the arts are playing in changing attitudes to climate change, …
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The day RSA Arts & Ecology met US Energy Secretary Steven Chu
It’s not every day you get to meet the person who’s in the single most important job for tackling global climate change. Last week, environment journalist Paul Quinn was attending the Nobel Laureate Summit on climate change’s gala dinner on behalf of the RSA Arts & Ecology Centre. Walking up …
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Free Richard Long prints…
60,000 copies of One Thing Leads To Another – Everything is Connected, a print by Richard Long is being given away today and tomorrow at several stations on London Underground’s Jubilee Line, as a celebration of the line’s 30th year. The stations where they’re being distributed are – from West …
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Dirk Fleischmann: myforestfarm
What happens when real life interrupts your fantasy life? Artist Dirk Fleischmann was an active user of the virtual world Second Life when his concerns about the impact of his presence there led him to establish a real-life farm project in the Phillippines. Out of that experience, the RSA Arts & Ecology Centrecommissioned Fleischmann to make a piece of work would address the online the community.
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Respond! in June
This Thursday we in Britain go to the polls to vote in local and European government elections. Depressingly, the environment is barely mentioned in any of the main parties’ campaigns. The papers are still full of the Telegraph’s expenses witchhunt and machinations to oust Gordon Brown.
Respond! kicks off today. For …
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