COP26 - The Environment, Art and Ecologies. |
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Image : Multispecies Cat's Cradle" by Nassir Mufti (2011). |
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Hi! With Cop26 approaching the newsletter this month is themed around the environment and ecologies. Below you'll find links to artist's whose work directly relates to climate change along with artists who have been working with the land and the natural environment since the 1960's onwards. Click here to a watch a short video with writer and curator Ben Tufnell, mapping out the history of LAND ART and it's relationship to conceptual art. |
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| | SARAH GUNAWAN: Synanthropic Suburbia As part of Sarah Gunawan's thesis she developed a series of Design Experiments that re-structure human animal interactions and enrich suburban ecosystems through the attachment of architectural prosthetics to the single-family home. | | |
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| | SLO ARCHITECHTURE The wind-powered “Turntable” a public installation at Cooper’s Poynt Waterfront Park in Camden, N.J., that turns face masks and plastic bottles into a wind-powered beacon. By SLO Architecture a full-service certified woman-owned (WBE) design firm of partners Amanda Schachter, AIA, and Alexander Levi, AIA. | | |
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| | ANA MENDIETA In a brief yet prolific career, the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta® created groundbreaking work in photography, film, video, drawing, sculpture, and site-specific installations. The major themes in her work are exile, displacement, and a return to the landscape, which remain profoundly relevant today. Her unique hybrid of form and documentation, works that she titled “siluetas,” are fugitive and potent traces of the artist’s inscription of her body in the landscape, often transformed by natural elements such as fire and water. | | |
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| | AGNES DENES A primary figure among the concept-based artists who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, Agnes Denes is internationally known for works created in a wide range of mediums. A pioneer of several art movements, she is difficult to categorize. Investigating science, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, poetry, history, and music, Denes's artistic practice is distinctive in terms of its aesthetics and engagement with socio-political ideas. As a pioneer of environmental art, she created Rice/Tree/Burial in 1968 in Sullivan County, New York which, according to the renowned art historian and curator Peter Selz, was “probably the first large scale site-specific piece anywhere with ecological concerns.” | | |
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Read, Watch, Listen READ THE EXPANDED ENVIRONMENT The Expanded Environment is a nonprofit 501c3 organization devoted to demonstrating alternate ways of responsibly and synthetically integrating biological and ecological agents into the built world. Its goal is to assist governments, municipalities, provinces, organizations, businesses, and individuals to understand, appreciate and envision a more productive relationship between architectural and biological systems. LISTEN Novara Media: Podcast Planet B Planet B is out every Thursday in the lead-up to the UN Climate Conference (COP26), with Novara Media's Dalia Gabriel and co-host Harpreet Kaur Paul tackling six crucial issues facing our heating world: work, land, infrastructure, migration, water and debt. Plus, look out for bonus interview episodes every week with great thinkers like Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis and Laleh Khalili. WATCH CCA Annex: Transformations- Goethe Institute Our People our Climate FREE ONLINE VIEWING To coincide with COP26 CCA Annex have programmed a series of films and documentaries that can be viewed online through their digital platform CCA Annex. Both Transformations and Our People our Climate focus on the experiences and voices of Indigenous peoples effected by Climate Change. |
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Events CCA Exhibition (In-person and online) Our People Our Climate, Sophie Reuter, IfNot Us Then Who?The Word for World is ForestFri 29 October — Sat 11 December 2021 Glasgow Women's Library 1st November at 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm ONLINE: Sikowis Nobiss, Plains Cree/Saulteaux and founder of Great Plains Action Society, will speak at GWL during her Scotland tour, where she will be an important voice on indigenous rights at COP26. Sikowis is active in Native American politics, protection of rights, climate change mitigation, justice and fairness in representations in popular culture and cultural festivals. Glasgow - Global Day of Action for Climate Justice 6th NovStart: Saturday, November 06, 2021 • 11:30 AMKelvingrove Park, Stewart Memorial Fountain, Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom G3 6BYHost Contact Info: cop26 coalition@riseup.net Click on the image below for more details of the march and rally. |
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