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 […]
Category Archives: Sustainable art
#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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Revolutionary Machines
An irresistible new machine of resistance will be launched during the COP15 UN summit protests in Copenhagen. Made from hundreds of old bicycles and thousands of activists’ bodies ‘Put the […]
Did art help add the sheen to Dubai?
RSA Art and Ecology’s William Shaw asks on his blog: ‘As the debt bubble bursts, does the art world share some of that blame for joining in the party?’ Did […]
The Growing Stockpile of Contemporary Art
Here is a recent take on a problem that was first identified in the early 70s, the steady increase in the stockpile of art objects and what to do with […]
Hard Realities and New Materiality Symposium
Since the last symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art held at CEU in February 2008, which took as its subject the Operaist dilemma of ‘Exit or Activism?’ and examined Paulo […]
REHAB Lomtalanitised
The Exit or Activism? Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art at Central European University on 29 February and related exhibition REHAB at Labor Gallery Budapest were very successful, and there’s […]
