Vitality

Call for Papers: Beyond the Creative City

December 25, 2011Cultura21, Open CallsArchitecture Research Group, Berlin Germany, Call For Papers, Ces, City Initiatives, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative City, Democratic Governance, Fields Of Sociology, Francesca, Human Sciences, Impacts Of Tourism, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Last Decade, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Peer Reviewed Journal, Portuguese English, Rana, Rccs, Sacha, Social Equity, Social Studies, Socioeconomic Conditions, Sociology Anthropology, Submission Deadline, Sustainable Environment, University Of Coimbra, Urban Development, Urban Futures, Urban Lifestyles, Urban Space, Vitality

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Special Issue: Beyond the Creative City
Portugal

The â€œCities, Cultures, and Architecture Research Groupâ€ of the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra is going to publish a special journal issue called â€œBeyond the Creative Cityâ€ in December 2012. Therefore it calls for papers on the topic of urban development and its effect on local cultures and heritage. Creative city investments and initiatives play an important role in this field, but they get into the focus of heavy critique. Thus the editors search for alternative approaches to urban futures, with a sustainable environment, society and economy and attention payed to inclusion and social equity, to make it short: approaches with a higher cultural sensivity.

The call for papers is not only directed to architects and cultural politicians, but also aims at researchers from the fields of sociology,Â anthropology, arts, cultural studies, as well as other disciplines confronted with urban space. Possible topics for investigation are:

urban lifestyles and means of resistance, socioeconomic conditions and empowerment of residents through artistic/cultural initiatives, the impacts of tourism and â€˜creative cityâ€™ initiatives on cities over the last decade, affirmations of cultural expressions, and the democratic governance of cities.
Revista CrÃtica de CiÃªncias Sociais (RCCS) publishes the results of advanced research in all fields of social and human sciences in four issues per year. As Revista CrÃtica de CiÃªncias Sociais is a peer-reviewed journal, all submitted works are graded by three reviewers, and ranked in terms of quality for this special issue. 6-8 articles will be chosen for publication as well asÂ 4-5 book reviews.

The submission deadline for articles is 31 March 2012. Articles can be sent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish to the following email address: rccs [at] ces [dot] uc [dot] pt

For more information please visit: http://www.ces.uc.pt/rccs/index.php or download the Call for Papers as PDF file here: CFP Beyond the Creative City

Lillian Ball: Waterwash ABC

December 24, 2011Cultura21Abc, Abc Carpet, Activist, Anthropology, Berlin Germany, Bronx River, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Educational Signage, Francesca, Infrastructure Model, International Exhibitions, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Lillian Ball, Mexico City, Multidisciplinary Background, Native Plants, Nature Experience, Oleg, Paris France, Permeable Pavement, Public Outreach, Rana, Retail Facility, Rocking The Boat, Sacha, Sculpture, Storm Runoff, Stormwater Issues, Vitality, Waterfront Areas, Watershed Initiative, Watershed Issues, Wetland Habitat, Wetland Park

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Lillian Ball works in New York as an environmental artist and activist. She has a multidisciplinary background in anthropology, ethnographic film, and sculpture, which influences her work. Furthermore she has received numerous awards and has traveled widely due to her international exhibitions.

Her latest project Waterwash ABC includes the construction of a wetland park, improvement of habitat as well as increase of public access to Bronx River. Its aim is to filter storm runoff and create consciousness among the community for watershed issues by means of an aesthetic nature experience.Â The need for restoration and revitalization of areas challenged by stormwater issues is widespread in waterfront areas worldwide.

The vision of Lilian Ball was a vegetated swale with native plants, permeable pavement, and educational signage explaining the need for non-point source stormwater management in private as well as public places.Â The transformation of a neglected space into a public outreach park is supposed to inspire community commitment to stormwater issues.

The runoff from the parking lot and the roof of the ABC Carpet and Home retail facility at 1055 Bronx River Ave was emptied unfiltered into the Bronx River. Ballâ€™s project aims to alter this fact. Rocking the Boat is the fiscal agent for this Bronx River Watershed Initiative in order to construct a wetland habitat that stabilizes theÂ shoreline to detain and filter the outfalls before they enter the river.

Rocking the Boat students will plant a variety of salt-tolerant native species and help theÂ ABC personnel in planting the community vegetable garden and maintain the site. Above that a hydrologic monitoring will be carried out by Rocking the Boat environmental apprentices.

In that way the project creates a permanent, publicly visible remediation, habitat restoration, and educational site. Above that it acts as a green infrastructure model.
For more information see http://lillianball.com/waterwash/index.html andÂ www.rockingtheboat.org

Call for Papers: CONTEMP ART â€™12

December 23, 2011Cultura21Academic Research Center, Answers To The Questions, Berlin Germany, Call For Papers, Contemporary Art Conference, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Cultu, Eastern Mediterranean, Ecological Art, Francesca, Institutions, International Artists, Istanbul Turkey, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, New Agenda, New Materials, New Millennium, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Tendencies, Vitality

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From the 11th to 14th of April 2012 the Contemporary Art Conference takes place in Istanbul, Turkey. It is open to the approaches of institutions and history of contemporary art as well as to styles generated by various international artists with different tendencies. Contemporary art has contrary characteristics and constantly renews itself and its environment whether from new materials or ways of communicating with the audience. It gets into the focus of criticism, too.

â€œContemporary art, with all its wrapped dimensions, confronts us every day with new agenda and disputes.â€

The Contemp Art â€™12 tries to give answers to the questions that appear in the rise of the new millennium given this complex motion. Artists as well as institutions are welcomed to follow the call for papers. There are different suggestions on themes, a very interesting one for ecological art is the tendency of place, city and nature as well as material and environment.

The event will be arranged by the Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center.

Enquiries: info [at] contempartconference [dot] org
Web address: http://contempartconference.org

Artists & Environmental Change: The Elusive Power of Contemporary Art

December 17, 2011Cultura211980s, 21st Century, Art And Culture, Berlin Germany, Contemporary Art, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Curator, Dilemma, Ecological Artists, Enormity, Environmental Change, Francesca, Human Health, Joseph Beuys, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, New Insights, New Ways, Oleg, Paris France, Public Welfare, Rana, Sacha, Social Engagement, Treading Water, Urban Landscapes, Vitality

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Too Shallow for Diving: the 21st Century Is Treading Water

The â€œLandâ€œ artists in the 1970s as well as artists like Joseph Beuys and Agnes Denes in the 1980s paved the way for the ecological artists today and for art to act as an agent for social change.

Today environmental art includes various approaches and issues. Artists employ urban landscapes as well as other environments in order to serve as a platform to show their concepts to their audience. Sustainability has found its way to art and culture and artists see new ways of enacting change and of collaborating e.g. with scientists.

The exhibition Too Shallow for Diving: the 21st Century Is Treading Water contributed to this process and the artistsâ€™ desire for social engagement. This wide-ranging show supported this trend, which has been the theme of numerous films, writings and exhibitions over the past decade.

Too Shallow for Diving put the focus on problems surrounding water and its impact on our natural world, human health and public welfare. The Curator Carolyn Speranza stated, that â€œâ€¦the sixteen artists aim to provide viewers with new insights and perspectives about our existing world and the enormity of the dilemma facing our water supply.â€

More information about the artists and the exhibition can be found in a review in the Artes Magazine here.

U-N-F-O-L-D in New York

December 12, 2011Cultura21Aviva, Berlin Germany, C Johnson, Cape Farewell, Climate Change, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Agency, Creative Interventions, Da Cunha, Events And Performances, Exhibition, Expeditions, Francesca, John Moores University, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Mosher, Oleg, Oppositions, Paris France, Parsons School, Rahmani, Rana, Sacha, Sheila, Sjdc, Vitality, Wnsr

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New York

30 September â€“ 15 December 2011

The Exhibition U-N-F-O-L-D exhibition continues until 15 December in New York City at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design. It shows the work of twenty-five artists who took part in Cape Farewell expeditions 2007 and 2008 to the High Arctic and 2009 to the Andes, where they were able to witness the consequences of climate change and global warming. Their work is an innovative response to these processes and explores the role that human activity plays in it. In this way the artists aim to raise awareness and create a cultural shift through their work.

The programme of public events and performances can be downloaded here.

A series of exciting lectures, panels and special events are broadcasted on newschoolradio.org.
One of these broadcasts is â€œWhat Ifs: Climate Change and Creative Agencyâ€œ, in which Architect and planner Dilip da Cunha and artists Aviva Rahmani and Susannah Sayler as well as artist Eve Mosher talk about their creative interventions and debate oppositions and collaborations between science and art. The webradiocast can be found on http://wnsr.parsons.edu/2011/10/19/what-ifs-climate-change-and-creative-agency/

In February 2012 the U-N-F-O-L-D heads to Liverpool, where it opens at John Moores University.

Call for Submissions: Horizons â€“ Arts in Nature

December 12, 2011Cultura21, Open CallsApplication Form, Art Event, Art Piece, Art School, Art Workshops, Artistic Experience, Berlin Germany, Call For Submissions, Contemporary Art, Copenhagen Denmark, Countryside, Cozzolino, E Mail, Francesca, Horizons, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Le Mont Dore, Lieutenant, Massif Central, Mexico City, Nature, Oleg, Paris France, Professional Artists, Rana, Rencontres, Sacha, Theme Park, Tourist Office, Tourists, Vitality, Website Www, Works Of Art

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France -Â The Horizons â€“ Arts in Nature event will take place between the 16th June and 16th September 2012. It is the 6th of a contemporary art event based on short-lived visual works of art.

Managed by the Sancy Tourist Office, the call for projects involves the creation of 11 works of art in the Sancy Massif located in the heart of the Massif Central in France and exceptionally within the theme park Vulcania.

The works of art will be put up in places where they highlight the surrounding countrysideâ€™s qualities. Discovery trails and Art workshops for children are held around the art piece in order to mediate their content.

The event aims at developing contemporary art in the area, allowing professional artists to contribute their sensitivity to the area. Furthermore it is supposed to reinforce the growth of tourism in the Sancy Massif by addressing so-called cultural tourists as well as people passing through.

The event is open to artists with a strong national or/and international artistic experience and to young talents, who just or recently â€“ less than 2 years- graduated from art school.

To download the application form for 2012, description of the territory and listing of the sites please go to the website of the event:
www.horizons-sancy.com (section: ESPACE PRO)

For further information about the territory, please visit the Sancy website: www.sancy.com
Contact:
Magalie Vassenet
E-mail: m [dot] vassenet [at] sancy [dot] com

Deadline for reception of the applications: Monday 19th December 2011, to the address below:
Horizons â€“ Rencontres Arts Nature â€“ Office de Tourisme du Sancy
AllÃ©e du Lieutenant Farmont â€“ 63 240 LE MONT DORE

Exhibition: Andrea Polli â€“ Breathless

December 9, 2011Cultura2128 October, Aesthetic Experiences, Albuquerque, American Artist, Andrea, Art Park, Berlin Germany, Bindi, Climate Variations, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Cravero, Effects Of Climate Change, Environmental Installations, Exhibition Place, Francesca, Friday 13, Gaia, Invisible Effects, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Living Art, Mail, Media Installations, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Solo Exhibition, Turin Italy, Urban Air Pollution, Varga, Video Links, Vitality, Weather Experts

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Turin

28 October 2011 -26 February 2012

Andrea Polli

BREATHLESS

in collaboration with Chuck Varga

From the 28th of October 2011 to the 26th ofÂ February 2012 the first solo exhibition by Andrea Polli takes place in Turin in Italy. Andrea Polli is known as an ecological artist and lives and works in Albuquerque in New Mexico. She presents some of her most meaningful works in collaboration with Chuck Varga at PAV Living Art Park in Turin.

Her exhibition Breathless deals in an innovative way with the comprehension of phenomena like climate change and global warming. In cooperation with scientists, weather experts and climatologists she transforms scientific data in aesthetic experiences through mixed media installations. For example data on urban air pollution is analyzed and different interpretations are offered. She chooses site-specific environmental installations to make invisible effects of climate change visible and tangible for the visitor. Polli also sees signs of cultural change in the climate variations and investigates the impact of the climate on the future of life and on the balance of the whole planet.

The exhibition of the American artist is curated by Gaia Bindi and Claudio Cravero and the opening hours are Wednesday to Friday, 13.00 â€“ 18.00 and Saturdays and Sundays, 12.00 â€“ 19.00.

You can find more info, photo, biographic news and video links about the artist at www.andreapolli.com.
For more information about the exhibition mail to info [at] parcoartevivente [dot] it

High Arctic Film Weekend

December 1, 2011Cultura21Arctic Exhibition, Arctic Expeditions, Berlin Germany, Canadian High Commission, Climate Change, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Cultu, Documentaries, Film Experts, Films, Francesca, Frozen Planet, Inuit Communities, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, London, Mexico City, National Archive, National Maritime, National Maritime Museum, Oleg, Paris France, Planet Series, Preview Screening, Rana, Rare Archival Footage, Rare Footage, Royal Anthropological Institute, Sacha, Vitality

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LondonÂ -Â December 3/4, 2011
On December the 3rd and 4th, the National Maritime Museum in London hosts the High Arctic Film Weekend. In parallel, the High Arctic exhibition is shown at the National Maritime Museum until the 13th of January 2012, too.
The weekend of Arctic films complements it by featuring a range of documentaries, Inuit features and rare archival footage. The purpose is to expose different representations of the Arctic over the past century.

Why are we so fascinated by the Arctic? Which impact has the climate change for the Arctic? Which problems are Inuit communities confronted with? Among others, these questions will be discussed in-between the screenings.

A special preview screening of the BBC Frozen Planet series programme 7 â€“ On Thin Ice as well asÂ rare footage of early Arctic expeditions from the BFI National Archive will be shown and film experts, scientists and artists will be there to answer questions and discuss with the audience.

The event is organised in association with the BFI National Archive, Royal Anthropological Institute and Canadian High Commission.
In order to view the full prgramme see http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/events/high-arctic-film-weekend

Sociology of the Arts â€“ Artistic Practices

November 20, 2011Cultura21, Open CallsApril 2007, Art Criticism, Art Theory, Artistic Practices, Berlin Germany, Call For Papers, Commercialisation, Copenhagen Denmark, Core Areas, Cozzolino, European Sociological Association, Film Television, Francesca, Further Development, G Music, Impact Of Technology, Including Art, Kagan, Kajsa, Karlheinz Essl, Koefoed, Members, Mexico City, Music Sociology, Oleg, Paris France, Production Distribution, Rana, Sacha, Schatzki, Scholarly Exchange, Sociologist, Sociologists, Vienna Austria, Vitality

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Vienna

5th to 8th of September 2012

Call for Papers: The 7th Conference of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts, which is part of the European Sociological Association (ESA), takes place from the 5th to the 8th of September 2012 in Vienna, Austria. The conference will be organised by the Institute for Music Sociology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and is an event in a biannual rhythm since 2000. The key aim of these conferences is to enable collaboration and scholarly exchange between art sociologists and other scholars of the arts, and to support the presentation of new research projects. Furthermore, inspiration for the further development of the sociology of the arts can be seen as a goal.

The invited four key speakers, Karlheinz Essl (composer), Nathalie Heinich (sociologist), Theodore Schatzki (philosopher) and Laurent ThÃ©venot (sociologist) will focus their speeches on artistic practices. The conference welcomes participants and papers on all core areas of arts sociology.Â (Please find the PDF file of the call for papers at the bottom of this post.)
Experienced as well as young scholars from various disciplines sensitive to social inquiries into the arts are invited to participate in the conference. Their presentations can be related to following fields:

Sociology focused on particular domains in arts including architecture, urban planning, applied arts, arts within the domain of popular culture (e.g. film, television, and popular music) as well as traditional â€˜highâ€™ arts (e.g. music, visual arts, literature, theatre, etc.).
The process of production, distribution, promotion and commercialisation of works of art including the impact of technology, new means of production, forms of collaboration, the formation of art theory, the development of arts markets, process of valuation etc.
The process of presentation and mediation of arts including art criticism and publicity in all domains of the arts, museums, theatres, concerts, audience studies, attitudes towards the audience, educational programs, etc.
Professional development including amateurs and semi-amateurs, vocational education, art schools, professional differentiation, artistic income, artistic reputation, relation to arts management, etc.
Arts organisations (not only houses such as museums, theatres but also festivals and artistsâ€™ unions) â€“ investigation of historical development, power relations, effects, program selection, processes within the organisations such as gate-keeping, leadership, etc.
Arts policy (especially the sociological aspects thereof) including legal issues, public and private funding, public discourse and debates (e.g. classification of art, arts and religious symbols, arts and sexuality, arts and racism), censorship, analysis of the impact of arts, sustainability, lobbying associations, cultural ministries or other government bodies.
Social and cognitive effects of the arts including:Â arts and identity formation, arts and bodies, aesthetic experience, arts and ethics, coding and decoding, gender related practices, ethnographic aspects, art for social transformation, arts in communities and arts as a part of urban culture.
Arts from a macrosociological perspective including: (de-)institutionalisation, economisation, globalisation vs. localism, digitalisation, mediamorphosis, arts and social cohesion, arts and ethics, arts and hegemony and arts and power.
Theoretical development in arts sociology such as the production of culture approach, (post-) structuralism, field theory, system theory, praxeology as well as methodological issues.

The deadline for submission is the 31st of January 2012.
Further information on the conference and about the application details can be found on the conference website.

The call for papers can be downloaded as PDF file here:

Call for Papers, Vienna 5-8 Sept.2012, ESA-RN02

For further details on the conference please contact zembylas [at] mdw [dot] ac [dot] at or tel. +43-1-71155-3617.

Publication: Harvest in Times of Drought

November 16, 2011Cultura21Amazon, Berlin Germany, Brasil, Care Co, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Education, Drought, Francesca, Global Project, Human Performance, Human Spaces, Industrialization, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Linki, Mexico City, New Paradigm, Oleg, Paradises, Paris France, Pedagogies, Political Imagination, Rana, Reflexes, Sacha, Self Confidence, Self Consumption, Self Respect, Social Transformation, Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Community, Virtual Communities, Vitality, Voices, Wisdoms

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Harvest in Times of Drought â€“ cultivating pedagogies of life for sustainable communities

Voices of the country

In the following lines, the book Harvest in Times of Drought is presented and offered for download (please find the download link at the bottom of the post). This publication is about creative education in Brasil that can generate social transformation and sustainability.

Brasil is one of the countries that is hit hard by the consequences of the industrialization in form of sharp inequalities, uprooting communicide and ecological upheaval. It has reached a threshold between a terrifying drought and a reflexive dawn. The task is to create on time a global project capable of cultivating a new paradigm of cooperation and sustainable community instead of competition.

Children and young people are seriously affected, because it is their future that is at stake. They already seek refuge in industrialized foods, virtual communities and paradises of self-consumption. Their parents feel powerless and can not point out alternative, aware that these will not resolve our crisis of civilization. A way must be found in order to create a new human performance of care, co-responsibility and solidarity, not just with others, but with ourselves, and with the future.

Every intervention and learning method must be based on pluricultural respect and transcultural care. Alternative experiences of social beauty and ethical self-respect can be offered and inspired by new as well as ancient pedagogies.

The aim is to create self-confidence to intervene in all human spaces and enable people to read and transform our cultural reflexes and political imagination. In order to avoid the reproduction of the violating past in the future, Harvest in Times of Drought roots the educative and transformative potentials of the artistic languages in the wisdoms of the land, the forest and the rivers of the Amazon to contribute to a proposal adaptable to any neighborhood, school and social organization.

The outcome after a seven years collaboration of Dan Baron (author of Cultural Literacy and co-founder of the World Alliance for Arts Education) and Manoela Souza (co-founder of the Brazilian Network of Arteducators) is thisÂ pedagogic resource and collective artwork. Fifty rural pedagogues and community leaders from the Federal University of ParÃ¡, MarabÃ¡, contributed their share to book in form of life stories, poems, songs and visual as well as pedagogic narratives.
The book is dedicated to Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva, eco-pedagogue, popular educator, extractor, grandmother and co-author of this collective book, who was assassinated with her partner, JosÃ© Ribeiro da Silva near their forest settlement in northern Brazil, where they were fighting for the protection of the forest and cultures of the Amazon.

Outline

Part 1 is a collection of poems and short-stories. This collection introduces and contextualizes the bookâ€™s pedagogic proposal.

Part 2 presents this proposal, based on a dialogue between knowledges, accompanied by a photo-narrative, and includes reflections from the participants who tested, refined and developed the proposal.

Part 3 records a dual process of transition. It dramatizes the challenge of sustaining this pedagogic proposal inside a university, in response to the key questions about complicity and resistance to the new. It lays the foundations of an artistic-pedagogic (aesthetic) project.

Part 4 is the pedagogic proposal in action, education as a transformational aesthetic project and it also contains a pedagogic Charter of Principles.

The final Part 5 contains the lyrics of the CD that accompanies this book.

Download the online version of the book (PDF file) for free:

Harvest in Times of Drought â€“ Colheita em Tempos de Seca