Amy Lipton of ecoartspace has been selected as one of the five curators for DC Creates’ 5×5 project. She has in turn selected five artists (Brandon Ballengée, Chrysanne Stathacosto, Habitat For Artists, Natalie Jeremijenko, Tattfoo Tan) develop work for sites across Washington. The project runs from 5 March to 27 April and ecoartscotland will post more on this project in due course. Richard Hollinshead of Grit and Pearl based in NE England has also been selected.
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Amy Lipton’s 5×5 Project
January 23, 2012A PEOPLE’S PRELIMINARY HEARING ON MONSANTO
January 20, 2012
'listening to zea maize' from mid west radical culture corridor website
ANDANDAND made the following announcement through the dOCUMENTA (13) newsletter (who, it should be noted, added “dOCUMENTA (13) is not responsible for the views or factual claims expressed by the artists and artworks it presents.”.
“Our focus is on Monsanto’s role in transforming and damaging the ecologies, economies, and social relations of this region. Proceedings will unfold in several stages, and as the deliberation process builds, it will add to the accumulating record of harms perpetrated by this corporation against human and non-human bodies, food, biological processes, weeds, neighborhoods, farmers, alternative forms of knowledge, and finally the environment from which all these entities emerge.
Through this project, we challenge rigid categories of legal protection, and seek an ethics that protects life itself from coercion. We invoke the form of a trial to produce a comprehensive public understanding of harms, and to determine responsibility for those harms. Existing judiciary frameworks are inadequate to the scale and nature of the ongoing damages perpetrated by Monsanto, which, under current law, is granted the rights of a legitimate “person,” while human non-citizens and non-human agents in our biosphere are not recognized. Existing law produces exclusive notions of legitimacy and harm that ignore and damage entities that do not favor a reductive calculus of profit.
Our proposition is to consider all living things as potential plaintiffs in an accounting of Monsanto’s crimes. We submit to public review impacts that are experienced materially and culturally, in the past, the present and extending into our shared future. By expanding notions of legal standing and of legitimate harm, we assert our interdependence. The urgent question is: what will it take to safeguard the interlocked nature of the world against criminally reckless corporate priority?”
The first hearing will take place at:
Time: Saturday, January 28, 2012, 11 am
City: Carbondale IL; Chicago IL; Iowa City IA; others TBA
Country: USA
Location: 37° 43′ 35.11″ N, 89° 13′ 12.97″ W
Address: Lesar Law Building Courtroom, Carbondale
Midwest Radical Culture Corridor has undertaken a number of drifts with the likes of Temporary Services and Brian Holmes. Their Call to Farms project and publication is inspirational.
DRIFT Call for proposals
January 18, 2012DRIFT is the title of the fourth art in nature project of Rerun Productions Foundation. The Waterloopbos, the former Hydraulic Laboratory in Marknesse, the Netherlands, will host this contemporary spatial art project from May till December 2012. The project invites artists to send proposals which respond to the theme and to focus their idea on the special location of the exhibition, a curious combination of an industrial heritage site and forest.
Theme
DRIFT refers to our passion for change, transformation from old to new, from sea to land, from industry to nature, from basic to digital and back again. Drift cannot be directed, it is a primal force. It pushes us in a direction, it brings us something new.
DRIFT invites us to reflect on the impact of transformation; the impact of human interventions in nature, the disappearance of the old world and its replacement by a new one, and the possibilities that arise from that.
Location
The site where DRIFT will be located is an expression in a nutshell of a metamorphosis. The Waterloopbos (Marknesse, The Netherlands) is situated on a ”polder” (land conquered on the sea in the 1930s). It has been a hydraulic laboratory until 2001, where engineers experimented with scale models of harbours and estuaries to solve specific problems with currents, waves and mud flows. Nowadays the half overgrown, partly restored industrial ruins lie scattered in the forest.
Proposals
Artists are invited to send a concrete proposal for a spatial installation that can survive the conditions on site for at least 7 months (a public forest, the influences of nature). The choice of material is free, if harmless to nature.
Work period: 8 to 18 May 2012
Dismantling of the exhibition: after mid-December 2012
Proposals should contain:
- A project outline and project description (including use of materials and workplan)
- CV and documentation of previous work by the artist
Proposals can be sent only digitally in PDF format (up to 10 A4) to: proposalskunstbroedplaats@gmail.com
Deadline: February 25, 2012
The results of the selection by an expert jury will be announced 1 March.
Thanks to Jan van Boeckel for highlighting this.
How do you illustrate complexity?
December 14, 2011
Declaration of the Occupation of New York, 2011, Rachel Schragis (links to interview)
Artist Rachel Schragis created the Flow Chart of the Declaration of the Occupation. The media keep criticising the occupation movement for not having a clear message. That’s the media’s problem (always wanting to simplify everything, one message). What Schragis has done is capture the complexity of issues underpinning questions of social and environmental justice. She has succeeded in representing unintended consequences. She has mapped the externalities associated with corporate greed. The work below addresses the personal version of these challenges.
My Attempts at Being Green, Rachel Schragis
Heath Bunting explores issues of identity and also uses flow charts and diagrams in his STATUS project.
Research and Development
November 26, 2011Creative Scotland have announced a call for proposals for public art research and development projects.
“The fund’s purpose is to support the initial research and scoping of a range of public art projects and approaches to provide opportunities for communities across Scotland to engage with the development of creative places through imaginative, artist-led projects. The aim of the investment is to open opportunities for the public of Scotland to engage with artists in a wide range of public art activity. We want to encourage high quality and imaginative projects that contribute to successful places, build new audiences and extend the diversity of public art practice. In 2011/12 there is a budget of £150,000 available.”
Culture Beyond Oil Publication Launch
November 15, 2011
New Arts Publication – ’Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil’
Monday 28 November – Free Word Centre 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA
10.30am – 6.30pm Oil daub performance by Ruppe Koselleck
6.30pm – 9.00pm Culture Beyond Oil Launch Event (refreshments provided)
Platform, Liberate Tate and Art Not Oil warmly invite you to a get together to end oil sponsorship of the arts. Featuring a performance from singer-comedian Mae Martin, contributing artist to the upcoming Tate à Tate audio tour, the evening will be the first opportunity to purchase the freshly stamped limited edition copies of ‘Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil’.
REVISED Dark Skies Biosphere Residency
October 31, 2011
Background
The Dark Skies/ Biosphere Project aims to explore the role of artists practice in a meaningful promotion of this beautiful area of Galloway, which has attracted both Dark Skies Park Status and is aiming to secure Biosphere status by Spring 2012. Dark Skies Park means it is one of the best places in the world to look at the stars due to low levels of light pollution. Biosphere refers to areas of landscape that have a good ecological balance and sustainability. There has already been much work done working closely with Mathew Dalziel and Louise Scullion (lead artists) to propose a programme of events and commission opportunities.
Residency
This residency is linked to the ongoing programme of artists’ proposals and events in Dark Skies Park/Biosphere. We anticipate that the selected candidate will work closely with Mathew and Louise to develop a promotional art/design edition for this fascinating place.
The residency gives an artist with an interest in science and arts a wonderful opportunity to work with this diverse and fascinating landscape and to be mentored by Scotland’s most distinctive ecological artists.
Who
We seek an artist or designer who is inspired and interested in the scientific aspects and opportunities in Dark Skies and Biosphere and their links to new discoveries in science. The Dark Skies Park has already links with the national astronomical society and other well-informed and exciting scientists and organisations. The selected artist’s interest or curiosity in science will ensure their practice engages with the exciting ecology and links between sky and land.
Artistic Outcome
We would anticipate that the residency would culminate with a workshop to launch the art edition and to discuss the role of artists as integral part of placemaking and their ability to recognize through research and practice the potential of place. Conversely to explore how the place has influenced the artist practice.
Budget: £8000 + European visit, mentoring and a materials budget.
Deadline for Applications: 28th November 2011
To Apply: Please submit a C.V. letter of interest and 5 images of previous work to:
Dr Jan Hogarth
Creative Director
Calside House,
Craigs Rd, Dumfries, DG1 4QJ
Mobile: 07801 232229
Other Wide Open projects:
www.stridingarches.com
www.gretnalandmark.com
Co-Producing PAR+RS
October 26, 2011
Creative Scotland has just formally announced that I have, along with Trigger (Suzy Glass and Angie Bual www.triggerstuff.co.uk) been appointed as Co-Producers for PAR+RS www.publicartscotland.com, Creative Scotland’s public art development project.
So I’ve got a provocative question to start the ball rolling, is public art a subset of visual arts or is it everything across all artforms that takes place outside the temples of art?
Creative Scotland’s press release is here.
October 13, 2011
Serpentine Pavilion designed by Peter Zumthor, 2011, Photo: Chris Fremantle
The Serpentine are holding a Marathon of Gardens on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th October featuring a fascinating line up of speakers from Charles Jencks and Dan Pearson through to Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Guiseppe Penone via Fritz Haeg and Brian Eno.
Wasteland Twinning
October 4, 2011
Glengarnock on a road trip, 2004
Wasteland and stalled spaces are important. This new project connects wasteland in different places as well as offering some suggestions for ways to explore those on your doorstep – join in and be twinned with places in Indonesia, Australia, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Malaysia, India (interestingly there are no US or Canadian partners).
Glengarnock (all that's left) 2004
Most of the ideas suggested involve spending time with your own wasteland, making sound recordings, putting up signs, doing surveys, finding sit spots, discovering what’s edible, and then inventing your own responses.
Glengarnock (variations) 2004
