Waterways

Water, Water Everywhere

September 18, 2012Cultura21Art Museum, August 1st, Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Curated, Environmental Challenge, Exhibition Description, Exhibition Website, Film Footage, Film Screening, Francesca, History Museum, Jennifer Heath, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Los Gatos, Media Exhibition, Mexico City, October 27, Oleg, Paean, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Sanctity, Tait, Varisco, Water Issues, Water Water, Waterways, World Water Crisis

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Film still from Shifting directed by Michael Varisco

The Museums of Los Gatos hosts a Film screening of select films from the traveling media exhibition: â€œWater, Water Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing Resourceâ€œ, curated byÂ Jennifer Heath.

Thursday, September 27,Â 7-9pm

Location: The Art Museum | 4 Tait Avenue

All other films fromÂ Water, Water EverywhereÂ willÂ be exhibited in conjunction with the current exhibitionÂ Shaped by Water: Past, Present and FutureÂ at the History Museum of Los Gatos from August 1-December 30, 2012. Visitors will have to opportunity to view films not featured in the screening throughout the durationÂ of Shaped by Water.Â These films will beÂ juxtaposed with historic film footage of Santa Clara Valley waterways.

Media Exhibition Description:

Water is the worldâ€™s most crucial commodity and the basis for all earthly life. Its preservation and protection may be our greatest environmental challenge.

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE is comprised of 30-second to 30-minute videos from 40 artists worldwide exploring water issues from the political to the personal and from ethics to aesthetics, with works that are documentary, experimental, educational, humorous, solemn, animated or acted. WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE is designed to be a platform for discussion and action to bring to light the world water crisis and the sanctity of water and its sources.

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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APInews: Mary Miss to Keynote 2nd iLand Symposium, N.Y.

March 18, 2010newsApos S, Aquifers, Art Nature, Choreographer, Ecologists, Ground Zero, History Of New York, Interdisciplinary Laboratory, Landscape Artist, Monson, Public Administrators, Public Space, Relational Approaches, S Union, Sewage Treatment Plant, Square Subway Station, Union Square, Union Square Subway, Urban Environment, Waterways

Landscape artist Mary Miss is keynote speaker at the second annual symposium by iLand (interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance) in New York City. The March 26-27, 2010, symposium is titled “Connecting to the Urban Environment: Creating embodied and relational approaches to environmental awareness.” Mary Miss developed “City as Living Lab,” a framework for making issues of sustainability tangible through collaboration and the arts. Miss has collaborated with architects, planners, engineers, ecologists and public administrators on projects like creating a temporary memorial around the perimeter of Ground Zero, revealing the history of New York's Union Square Subway station and turning a sewage treatment plant into a public space. The event also features iLand Founder Jennifer Monson, choreographer, who will present her recent work on aquifers and waterways in relation to urban development.

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APInews: 2009 iLAND Residencies: Waterways and Strataspore

August 14, 2009newsArt Nature, August 15, Bridge Park, Brooklyn Bridge, Choreography, Collective Knowledge, Collectives, Creative Practice, Environmentalists, Facade, Fasad, Gabriel Rivera, Ilab, Landscape Architects, Orientation Point, Public Actions, Residency Program, Urban Designers, Urban Systems, Waterways

iLAND (interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance) has announced the recipients of its 2009 iLAB collaborative residencies: two collectives called Waterways and Strataspore. The New York residency program supports collaborations among movement-based artists and scientists, environmentalists, urban designers/landscape architects, architects and others that integrate creative practice within different fields/disciplines, culminating in public actions. Waterways is a collaboration among The League of Imaginary Scientists and Danish choreography collective E.K.K.O. Their research, surrounding the theme of water, takes place aboard the Waterpod, a floating habitat that is host to collaborations and artists, beginning August 15 at Brooklyn Bridge Park. StrataSpore is “a platform for collective knowledge about mushrooms” as the pivotal orientation point for exploring urban systems. Strataspore’s public work begins October 5 at Gabriel Rivera’s facade/fasad in Brooklyn. Details online.

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APInews: iLAND Announces 2009 iLAB Residencies

May 13, 2009AnnouncementsArchitect, Art Nature, Choreographer, Choreography, Collaborative Team, Dialogue, Ecosystems, Educator, Engineer, Environmental Researcher, Ilab, Interdisciplinary Laboratory, Liquid City, Mushrooms, Mycologist, Scientists, Sociological Study, Symposium, Urban Sustainability, Waterways

iLAND Announces 2009 iLAB Residencies

BIG CAAKe and the League of Imaginary Scientists + E.K.K.O have been awarded the 2009 iLAB residencies by iLAND, the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance. BIG CAAKe, a collaborative team including an artist/engineer/educator, a choreographer/cook, an artist/designer, an architect and a mycologist, will conduct “StrataSpore,” a project using mushrooms to develop dialogue about local New York City ecosystems and urban sustainability. The League of Imaginary Scientists and E.K.K.O., a collaborative team including an artist, a composer, an architect, an environmental researcher and a choreography collective, will develop “Waterways: fluid movements in a liquid city,” a project that examines water through environmental and sociological study and “transforms that information into choreographic actions that engage New Yorkers.” Get connected through the ongoing discussion on the iLAND Symposium blog.

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