tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.comments2023-05-28T04:38:47.223+01:00ashdenizenUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-36194723996465594182012-09-07T09:15:39.656+01:002012-09-07T09:15:39.656+01:00Three tree points:
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(Prospero)
Their understan...Three tree points:<br /><br />1.<br /><br />(Prospero)<br />Their understand Begins to swell ; <br />and the approaching tide<br />Will shortly fill the reasonable shore<br />That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them<br />That yet looks on me, or would know me. - Ariel,<br />Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell ;<br /><br />I will discase me, and myself present<br />As I was sometime Milan : quickly, spirit ;<br />Thou shalt ere long be free.<br /><br />(Ariel)<br />Where the bee sucks, there suck I ;<br />In the cowslip's bell I lie :<br />There I couch when owls do cry.<br />On the bat's back I do fly<br />After summer merrily :<br />Merrily, merrily shall I live now,<br />Under the blossom that hang on the bough.<br /><br />(Shakespeare: The Tempest, extracts from act V.)<br /><br /><br />2.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgfWUTD1g3s<br /><br /><br />3.<br /><br />ecological situation on the planet Tellus 2012<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-62096403047598436202012-05-14T15:10:25.624+01:002012-05-14T15:10:25.624+01:00The Last Polar Bears tour fits in perfectly with t...The Last Polar Bears tour fits in perfectly with this "culture and climate change" blog. Thank you very much for featuring us on your page. We're follwing the adventures of the team at http://www.thelastpolarbears.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-50337266182559125112011-09-08T13:48:54.116+01:002011-09-08T13:48:54.116+01:00Hi, I am a dance artist that explores movement in ...Hi, I am a dance artist that explores movement in natural environments and think my work addresses environmental concerns, please view my blog www.lucindaalexstone.blogspot.com <br /><br />I'd also like to guide you toward the work of dance and environment practitioners Andrea Olsen, Anna Halprin and Helen Poynor, (if you haven't come across them already). <br /><br />I'm in the process of writing an MA thesis and just came across this passage by Olsen that I wish to share.. I think dance, dance artists can, are doing much for the environment.<br /><br />'I feel that dance, in particular, has a unique role to play in rehabilitating humans' relationship with Earth. We need both a cognitive (mental) and experiential (embodied) understanding to make a change in behaviour. Drawing on the depth and detail of our research and experiential knowledge, dancers bring an embodied, integrative, cross-disciplinary perspective to contemporary issues' (Olsen, date unknown).Lucindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13627819230343233327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-19412741928979360742011-09-03T09:44:52.503+01:002011-09-03T09:44:52.503+01:00There's a nice piece on the NYT site about cre...There's a nice piece on the NYT site about creating reef MPAs in Haiti of all places: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/world/americas/02reef.htmlCaspar Hendersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04667141284390082748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-82488250931217324422011-08-22T23:12:46.356+01:002011-08-22T23:12:46.356+01:00I totally say the container, but did not realize t...I totally say the container, but did not realize this. A shame they didn't apply for the award for sustainable production.Ianpghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14336283380578307502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-87492624386785651492011-08-01T18:55:00.947+01:002011-08-01T18:55:00.947+01:00Great article Kellie,
you might be interested to ...Great article Kellie,<br /><br />you might be interested to know that on the policy front www.culturefutures.org is going again, <br /><br />regards, CathyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-85573171387255685072011-07-22T12:14:02.592+01:002011-07-22T12:14:02.592+01:00I can't help but expect that this interesting ...I can't help but expect that this interesting fact has ramifications for Climate Change? That is to say, if people perceive the future predictions of Climate Change scientists as having about them the gloom of 'winter', a passing away of the good times, they'll be less inclined to willingly give their attention to the issue. Perhaps the challenge, then, is to couch the approaching problems in terms of opportunities, a kind of global 'spring'? To do that without diluting the seriousness and probable actuality of the impending situation is going to take not inconsiderable talent.<br /><br />Mario PetrucciAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-7968556077860091602011-07-19T14:30:40.506+01:002011-07-19T14:30:40.506+01:00Interesting read!Interesting read!Frank Zweegershttp://www.frankzweegersart.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-28939978939399329752011-04-29T10:07:06.391+01:002011-04-29T10:07:06.391+01:00Thanks for an insightful review. Jem Finer does so...Thanks for an insightful review. Jem Finer does some lovely work! He fashioned a Malwiya minaret-shaped radio telescope out of string, sticky-back plastic and two-by-fours in the University Park in Oxford, and spent the nights listening to sounds of the universe. Great stuff. Other very long music pieces include John Cage's 639 year work being played on an organ in Halberstadt!Caspar Hendersonhttp://barelyimaginedbeings.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-42321376647022321842011-04-27T15:44:19.741+01:002011-04-27T15:44:19.741+01:00Thanks, this is an interesting review. I haven'...Thanks, this is an interesting review. I haven't yet seen the exhibition so my comments should be read as tentative or general. On your main critical point, too often we don't acknowledge climate change as the back story and epilogue of a story, so it could be seen as refreshing that tales of consumption or energy are entitled in relation to climate, allowing us to make that connection. On the point about curatorial neutrality, this can be frustrating, and I was certainly frustrated by the soft treatment of climate in the Atmosphere gallery (the main Shell-sponsored climate change display), but it is absolutely the norm in all museum-led curation. It's really only when artists or scientists (for example) are invited to co-curate shows that some variance from this tepid, cautious approach creeps in. As this exhibition has included works of contemporary artists and experimental designers, some space at least is opened up. The focus here on intriguing objects, rather than the linear story of climate change, fractures the narrative and allows questions to be asked. In contrast, the Atmosphere gallery attempts to tell the past, present and future of climate change authoritatively and almost seamlessly, with a few objects only there to illustrate the telling. I've made the point elsewhere that the Atmosphere gallery misses an opportunity to enable visitors/public to make their own tales, questions or ideas public. I don't know if Ten Climate Stories addresses that gap and provides an online or in-gallery forum, but at least the object-based structure and inclusion of artworks would seem to create more potential for visitors to think more independently and curiously.Bridget McKenziehttp://ecoch.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-44119399554908557612011-03-28T10:25:04.111+01:002011-03-28T10:25:04.111+01:00Using Google's keyword tool shows us that arou...Using Google's keyword tool shows us that around 1300 people around the world searched for 'Signs of Spring' last month. Around 140 searched for 'Signs of Winter'. <br />It is the week leading up to Christmas that the numbers of people searching for 'Signs of Winter' is at its highest and surprisingly it looks to be pretty much just in the United States that people show this interest.<br />Personally I get excited by the changing seasons and look out for early signs that change is coming.Robin Dallyhttp://greenhousepr.co.uk/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-6750376481926515472011-02-25T08:33:54.253+00:002011-02-25T08:33:54.253+00:00My trouble is not wanting to use climate scientist...My trouble is not wanting to use climate scientists at all. Is it the same as writing about human rights by portraying a human rights activist? (That isn't a rhetorical question by the way.) Your last paragraph makes it sound as if the climate scientists would do a pretty good themselves if they were given the chance - why should we represent that on stage? (Again, not a rhetorical question.) I've been torn about this for ages and not finding a way through.Tim Nunnhttp://www.timnunn.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-12752612245159081342011-02-15T12:31:56.373+00:002011-02-15T12:31:56.373+00:00great article, thanks Robert!great article, thanks Robert!Cathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07387874568318281585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-79215787332175259032011-02-11T15:33:08.891+00:002011-02-11T15:33:08.891+00:00So, is Greenland worth seeing then?So, is Greenland worth seeing then?Russhttp://www.berfrois.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-70110857023383456122011-01-20T12:10:50.451+00:002011-01-20T12:10:50.451+00:00That's great to hear Robert
I saw an amazing ...That's great to hear Robert<br /><br />I saw an amazing play on wind turbines in NZ in 09, had me in stitches as it was a romcom versus the powers of a multinational wind turbine company, see here for outline, http://bit.ly/fz1XfH... and they used a whiteboard to draw and erase and draw again the proposed turbines in the landscape http://www.flickr.com/photos/downstage/3273042682/in/photostream/.<br /><br />Seems we might be having turbines here in our scenic little valley... the debates 'not in our backyard' will be clashing with needs to look at alternative fuels for others affected further away....Cathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07387874568318281585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-63311196090770764652011-01-08T09:49:55.652+00:002011-01-08T09:49:55.652+00:00These are excellent resources and great that more ...These are excellent resources and great that more is available online for those not in the UK ;-)Cathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07387874568318281585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-78825145268388037062010-10-18T12:39:21.067+01:002010-10-18T12:39:21.067+01:00This is d.lightThis is d.lightAtul Mittalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287900595669052177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-14473016195770327602010-09-22T18:56:19.549+01:002010-09-22T18:56:19.549+01:00These are great. Love them.These are great. Love them.A Joke a Dayhttp://rfjokes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-45118814887780021692010-09-16T10:54:47.403+01:002010-09-16T10:54:47.403+01:00Well exactly...there is plenty of political theatr...Well exactly...there is plenty of political theatre around...the Tricycle's Afghanistan season (with, I think, twelve new plays about Afghanistan from twelve playwrights) was so successful they've brought it back. One of the plays from the original got expanded into a full-length play for the National, which just opened (JT Rogers's Blood and Gifts), and the Tricycle's just done another similarly-organised season on women & politics. The Lyric Hammersmith's just revived Simon Stephens's play Punk Rock (about teenage anomie). In the last few weeks, I've seen plays about climate change (Mike Bartlett's Earthquakes in London at the National), the London bombings (David Watson's Pieces of Vincent at the Arcola) & freedom of religion (Howard Barker's Anne Boleyn at the Globe)...all this in what is traditionally silly season... I think we playwrights are doing all right when it comes to being political...Samantha Ellishttp://samanthaellisblog.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-80584467544720144612010-08-18T13:35:26.820+01:002010-08-18T13:35:26.820+01:00Thank you, Franc, for correcting me on the photog...Thank you, Franc, for correcting me on the photographer of Under Glass. I found the photograph here: http://homepage.mac.com/aureliankoch/portfolio/PhotoAlbum16.html, and mistakenly identified Aurelian Koch as the photographer. Apologies to Al Cane who is credited as the photographer for the image in black-and-white which is on the cover of Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre.Wallace Heimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-90558103366949175832010-08-15T10:42:27.372+01:002010-08-15T10:42:27.372+01:00Very interesting to see this analysis of the play;...Very interesting to see this analysis of the play; it really adds a lot to its desconstruction. Sad (to me) to see a show mock the Weimar attitude of today and then not really take the platform and make for the most convincing polemic possible. Shaw did it well; why not Bartlett?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-65850119121117062792010-08-05T14:17:51.737+01:002010-08-05T14:17:51.737+01:00I'm always fascinated by how performances live...I'm always fascinated by how performances live on in people's memories and seem to be able to seed and grow.<br /><br />Reading this something of the performance comes alive in my memory in a way that it didn't live before. But I don't mean something like: "that's not how I remember it" but more: "I don't remember seeing it quite like that before". Everything you say here feels right, it resonates with my corporeal sense of the event, yet it also deepens and changes my interpretations.<br /><br />Reading this account, thirteen years on, it's as though something living that belonged to the performance bursts through the peeling paper of my memories and interpretations. And I engage with the performance as a different person from the one who watched it in 1997. Thank you<br /><br />And that's how the cover of Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre should have looked -- full colour. But the photo credit should be Al Cane rather than Aurelien, I thinkFranchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18100772129017138661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-16548410308140287112010-07-23T17:29:48.504+01:002010-07-23T17:29:48.504+01:00Thank you to everyone for all your comments – thou...Thank you to everyone for all your comments – thought-provoking and helpful in thinking through how we might develop the project. <br /><br />One question that opens is the age-old one about the relationship between art and pedagogy.<br />Does climate change make art acquire a new social importance? <br />Or has the concept of art moved so far into the realm of significant ‘functionlessness’ that it is impossible to make art ‘about’ anything as such?<br />That is, does the focus on climate change as a topic of urgent significance make 3rd Ring Out (or any other piece that considers climate change) less ‘art’ and more ‘education’? And how do both/either relate to politics?<br /><br />Further, by integrating discussion into the piece itself, might we fall into substituting the engagement of the individual imagination (the art) for an exploration of the social dynamics provoked by the subject matter (politics)? And is that a problem?<br /><br />To paraphrase a long conversation I had last night with a theatre academic friend – he said he began by thinking that theatre was merely a tool in the performance to talk about climate change, but that by the end his view was reversed. The focus on the future through the lens of an acute issue, he suggested, offered reflection on the constitution of the audience itself – by asking us to consider *who we are* in this particular historical moment – as spectators, and as actors in the world. <br /><br />Two days ago, I ran a workshop with some year 9 students who came to see the performance in Cambridge. It was the theatricality that impressed them and that they particularly remembered: they talked about how they hadn’t realised that theatre could be like that – how it changed their perception of what was possible with drama; how they felt constantly involved.<br /><br />When prompted to talk about the subject matter, the students said the performance made them rethink their relationship to climate change – one said that ordinarily they get told what to do (recycling etc) but she hadn’t really be asked to consider *why* because ‘no one really talks about what might happen’. <br /><br />Do these responses from the students suggest that the theatricality *is* simply a tool to win hearts and minds to the cause? Or was it in fact the way that the performance acknowledged the students as subjects – and potential actors – that enabled their imaginative engagement?<br /><br />It is these questions that we are grappling with as we move forward to think about what next with 3rd Ring Out.Zoe Svendsenhttp://www.3rdringout.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-46483003646938716572010-07-12T18:59:33.918+01:002010-07-12T18:59:33.918+01:00I['m getting my practical climate change info ...I['m getting my practical climate change info from a myriad of sources but I have few opportunities to apply that knowledge to a known reality and 3rd Ring Out did just that...I surprised myself at my own decision making - the 'in the momentness' of it made me behave differently - is this how politics works I wondered (and Im just now reading The End of the Party by Andrew Rawnsley so have a strong sense of how COBRA comes together and how personalities and THE MEDIA influence decisions). LIke others I would have welcomed a little interaction with my fellow decision makers - at least to look them in the eye and agree that our collective actions would democratically change things (although I totally recognise how more detailed interaction would shift the whole experience...<br />This was a classy piece of work as authenticity was critical for us voters and we got plenty of authenticity due to the painstaking research of the team and the lightfooted adaptability of the performers. Lots of potential for further development as mooted in earlier comments - I can't wait...Angela McSherrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-38389324710970751422010-07-10T16:35:32.461+01:002010-07-10T16:35:32.461+01:00When we got to deciding about climate change refug...When we got to deciding about climate change refugees staying in the O2, I wanted to talk to the person sitting next to me. I wanted a conversation about how each of us were making decisions, how we would negotiate as ourselves and as leaders of our sectors of responsibility. I wanted to talk to a stranger about climate change. <br /><br />Afterwards, I went to a friend's, and described 3rd Ring Out to the six people there, most of whom didn't know each other. The story didn't drop into the well of summer chat. Instead, it sparked the conversation I was looking for. <br /><br />We went straight for the dilemmas, the nuances, the contradictions, the consequences of decisions that would have to be made. We kept returning to when and how the military would be used, to whether the public should be given truthful or manipulated information and spent most time on whether the resources of 'our' sector should be shared with others. <br /><br />There wasn't agreement, but we did get to a recognition that how we consider decisions now, the way we justify them now, might not be the way that they are made and justified under conditions of climate change. <br /><br />Because no one else had been in the production, we weren't talking about the 'art' of it. But the device of it opened something up. We were doing it.Wallace Heimnoreply@blogger.com