Art and Sustainability
Chapter by Maja and Reuben Fowkes on Art and Sustainability in Enough for All Forever: A Handbook for Learning about Sustainability, eds Joy Morray, et. al. (Common Ground:Champaign, Illinois, 2012) ‘The […]
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Peak Oil, Peak Art
Reading the announcement for artist Heath Bunting’s ‘festival of not-surviving’ (see below), which highlights the crisis in energy, economy and ecology and suggests that since c.2007 we’ve been living in […]
#Occupy Effect
From the mild-mannered protest camp of self-styled “doccupiers” in Kassel to a radical attempt to turn the tables on curators and subvert the hierarchical structures of the biennial in Berlin, […]
Not “Sustainable Art”, Sustainability of Art (interview)
An interview with Maja and Reuben Fowkes published in the Turkish magazine ECOIQ in June 2012: As in all areas, wind blows towards sustainability in art also. Thus a new […]
Atmospheres of Protest Symposium
Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art Noah Fischer and Maria Byck (Occupy Museums, New York) SPEAKERS: Noah Fischer and Maria Byck (Occupy Museums, New York), Matteo Pasquinelli and Wietske Maas […]
Symposium: Rethinking Robert Smithson
Art and Ecology related symposium at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague on Friday 30 March: In many ways, the artistic debates prevalent in the 1970s are recurring […]
The Animal Gaze Returned
This should be good… Following the success of the first Animal Gaze symposium three years ago, London Metropolitan University presents The Animal Gaze Returned – a second symposium on contemporary […]
Ruri
The first comprehensive monograph about Icelandic artist Ruri has just been published Ruri_Book-1 “For me art is philosophy. My works are concerned with the connections between man, the earth, and […]
Conference on Animal Ecologies in Visual Culture
Here’s the link for the full programme of the Animal Ecologies in Visual Culture conference at UCL London on 8 October 2011, which is organised by Antennae, there are still […]
Animal Ecologies Symposium
ANIMAL ECOLOGIES IN VISUAL CULTURE 8th of October 2011 UCL, London The symposium proposes an exploration of artistic practices involved with animals and environments. In the recent re-surfacing of the […]
COAL Prize
A new prize for artists engaged with environment issues organised under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture has been announced The COAL Art & Environment prize was launched […]
the concept of (un) sustainability
A new book promises to explore how modernity has ‘degenerated into a culture of unsustainability’ Sacha Kagan. Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, […]
From Stockholm to Copenhagen via Rio: Art and Ecology in the Wake of the Global Summits
Talk at Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz on 2 September 2010 The pattern of world environmental summits has been one of raised hopes for global action in tackling ecological crisis, followed […]
Art and Ecology in Artecontexto
Special issue on issues of art and ecology in contemporary art in the Spanish art journal Artecontexto, including a feature article by Maja and Reuben Fowkes entited Reclaim Happiness: Art […]
Ecology and Ideology: In Search of an Antidote in Contemporary Art
VERGE no.1 (February 2010) Sustainability has become a buzzword of politics and commerce, and with its spread from the field of environmentalism into society there has been some dilution of […]
Post-Fordism in the Puszta
Last weekend’s symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art, the 5th annual collaboration between Translocal and the Dept of Environmental Science and Policy and Centre for Arts and Culture at Central […]
Sustainability and Contemporary Art
Sustainability and Contemporary Art: Art, Post-Fordism and Eco-Critique International Symposium at Central European University Budapest 19-20 March 2010 Ralo Mayer, Multiplex Fiction, 2008 This symposium focuses on the intersections between […]
Weimar Art and Sustainability Summer School
Learn about the Beuysian school of art and sustainability on this progressive summer course. ART AND SUSTAINABILITY – new Summer School program in English within the International Weimar Summer Courses […]
Art, Post-Fordism and Eco-Critique
International Symposium at CEU Budapest 19-20 March 2010 The 2010 Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art brings together artists, philosophers, environmental scientists and activists to explore the conundrum of capitalism’s […]
Biennial Culture and Sustainability
Contemporary art historians and curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Translocal.org) present their on-going research into the Ecological Footprint of Contemporary Art. Concentrating on the ecological impact of major international art gatherings […]
