From Yatoo-i newsletter: Ko, Seung-Hyun, Hur Kang and Jeon, Won-gil (YATOO-i members) and other Korean artists Ryu, Shin-jung(Installation) Yu, Zie-sook (Vedio), musician An, Jung-hee (Gemoongo) participated in 'Iran Nomadic Residence Program' supporting Arts Council Korea from 19th 11 to 5th 12. 2011. We joined 12 Iraian Artists and work together in Masouleh in Iran and... Continue Reading →
Social license to operate
BP is definitely splashing around the cultural sponsorship - there has been press coverage of the £10 million to cultural majors in London, and now they are also sponsoring the Cultural Olympiad. Art Not Oil want artworks for an online exhibition. Send them before the end of February.
How do you illustrate complexity?
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... Continue Reading →
TippingPoint Newcastle
Tipping Point have announced their next gathering and have an open application procedure for some places for artists and academics. "TippingPoint, in partnership with Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability (NIReS), will be holding a major national gathering of those concerned with the interface between the arts and culture on one hand, and environmental issues,... Continue Reading →
US town to turn drainage basin into public art
Minnesota Public Radio recently reported that Jackie Brookner is advising and supporting the inhabitants of the City of Fargo in North Dakota on a major ecological art project funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The focus of the project is making use of a drainage basin, built to deal with heavy... Continue Reading →
Approaches to Arts-based Environmental Education by Jan van Boeckel
The Shorelines Symposium which took place at Rozelle Maclaurin last week included presentations by two keynotes Ian McGilchrist (author of The Master and his Emissary), Chris Drury (artist) as well as a number of others. The Symposium was organised in conjunction with Alison Bell and Cathy Treadaway's exhibition Shorelines currently at in the Maclaurin Galleries. ... Continue Reading →
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