tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66559169711787620592024-03-13T04:08:30.215+00:00ashdenizenrobert butler writes on culture and climate change<br> <br>
"ashdenizen blog and twitter are consistently among the best sources for information and <br>reflection on developments in the field of arts and climate change in the UK" (2020 Network)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-20248643100004610212013-03-08T09:30:00.002+00:002013-03-08T09:47:54.187+00:00New on our news page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Crowd-sourcing is building two online databases: <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=201337_39359683">Actipedia</a> for activist art, and <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121029_32502383">TippingPoint's</a> database of climate art.<br />
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The Museum of Water and the pop-up Water Bar <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=200997_29223269">assemble in Soho</a>, London next week.<br />
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Send <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=201336_46030825">a bottle of sea water</a> to the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh for an exhibition in 2014.<br />
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The last of the Wasteland Conversations in Nottingham is on the <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121120_77625674">Common Imagination</a>.<br />
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The Center for Contemporary Art and the Natural World is <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=2013218_6885927">selling its all-weather Dome</a>, and moving to the University of Exeter.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-19484077437988524082013-03-04T12:55:00.000+00:002013-03-07T09:13:53.878+00:00Reports from Fukushima<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Wallace Heim writes</i>:<br />
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Artist Su Grierson has been sending updates to
<a href="http://ecoartscotland.net/">ecoartscotland</a> on her 10-week residency in Kitakata, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Fukushima Province</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
Su emphasises that she is there as an artist, not a journalist, and she is only
able to report what she is told, often through translation, and what she sees
herself without external verification.<br />
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Su’s reports evoke the everyday life of those living with
the continuing effects of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters in
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19 February</div>
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<i>Su visits the Scottish artist Aenaes Wilder and they drive
to the coast north from Kitikata, an area decimated by the earthquake and
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‘Aenaes was keen to revisit the area which still holds
horror images and a memory of the smell that he was still needing to come to
terms with ... He told me the story of how only one small town survived
undamaged. Many years ago the Mayor of this town had insisted on building the
sea defence wall many meters higher than anywhere else had even considered. He
was laughed at and his wall was the subject of jokes throughout his lifetime.
After 11 March his town was the only one in the area where not a single person
died. The very next day the local people began laying flowers on his grave.’ <a href="http://ecoartscotland.net/2013/02/19/su-griersons-email-of-19-february-2013/"><i>more</i>…</a></div>
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11 February</div>
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<i>The Director of Minamisouma City Museum guides Su and
other artists through the area nearest to the nuclear disaster site</i>.</div>
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'We carried radiation monitors in the car (you can buy them
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Miles of empty houses including whole villages with cars,
lorries and tractors left abandoned because they are too contaminated to be
moved. The ghost towns with their traffic lights still working are an eerie and
disturbing sight especially in near blizzard conditions. Houses of all sizes
are left abandoned with police patrol cars driving round as protection. These
black-and-white cars with their silent red rotating beacons add an almost
holocaust atmosphere as they glide around the empty roads...</div>
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The scale of all this is so huge it is only by seeing it
that any idea of scale can really be imagined. I was told that in this Province
there are 100,000 refuges and 200,000 in the next Province and there are more in many
other areas.' <a href="http://ecoartscotland.net/2013/02/11/su-griersons-report-11-february/"><i>more</i>…</a></div>
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The residency, involving four artists, is working towards an exhibition with the Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art on the theme Spirit of the North. </div>
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Environmental Arts Festival Scotland is <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=2012626_94076175">calling for projects</a>
connected to land, energy, the coast, rural living, Dark Skies, climate change,
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Wysing Arts Centre in <st1:city w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:city>
is calling for ideas on the theme of <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=2012626_94076175">Tracing the Tacit</a>, for retreats exploring the
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<a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=201161_11722964">The work of art in critical times</a> works out on energy, economy
and environment at a symposium in <st1:city w:st="on">Falmouth</st1:city>.</div>
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Wasteland Conversations in <st1:place w:st="on">Nottingham</st1:place>
take on <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121120_77625674">utopia, community and ecology</a>. </div>
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Also in Nottingham, and in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>, <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121120_77625674">the vacuum cleaner</a> talks: 'I Went
Mental and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt' .<br />
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And in Brussels, Kaaitheater looks at <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=2013218_8462160">animals looking back</a> for their Burning Ice #6 Festival.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-55977169203968455152013-02-13T09:29:00.004+00:002013-02-13T09:52:08.335+00:00Jennifer Monson live, indoors, at The Kitchen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Wallace Heim writes</i>:<br />
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Tomorrow, at <a href="http://www.thekitchen.org/event/343/0/1/?utm_source=THIS+WEEK%3A+Live+Dancing+Archive+at+The+Kitchen&utm_campaign=THIS+WEEK%3A+LDA+at+the+Kitchen&utm_medium=email">The
Kitchen</a> in <st1:city w:st="on">New York City</st1:city>,
the movement artist <a href="http://www.ilandart.org/">Jennifer Monson</a> starts <i>Live Dancing Archive</i>, a week of live performances, video installation and a digital archive.</div>
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One of the first stories on the Ashden Directory in 2000
featured Jennifer's project BIRD BRAIN Dance, a dance touring project following
the migratory pathways of birds and grey whales in the northern and southern
hemispheres. Jennifer's work in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>
continued with Water Log, an outdoor movement project across the sands of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Morecambe</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Bay</st1:placetype></st1:place>. She returned to <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region> and now
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developing collaborative art and environmental projects.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/dance/jennifer-monson-the-kitchen?utm_source=THIS+WEEK%3A+Live+Dancing+Archive+at+The+Kitchen&utm_campaign=THIS+WEEK%3A+LDA+at+the+Kitchen&utm_medium=email">New
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'For more than a decade, this esteemed improviser has done
most of her dancing outdoors, following the migrations of animals and exploring
the connections between dance and scientific research. In <i>Live Dancing
Archive,</i> she reconstructs some of those outdoor experiences, attempting to
reveal the traces a place might leave on a body. But the work is equally, if
even more obliquely, about Monson’s history as a dancer, a queer performer, and
an ever-questioning mind'.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-9164515146109281222013-02-11T09:11:00.002+00:002013-02-11T09:41:17.159+00:00The form is the story with telematic climate opera<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Superstorm <st1:city w:st="on">Sandy</st1:city>
postponed the simultaneous performances of the climate change opera
<a href="http://auksalaq.org/">Auksalaq</a> in two of its seven world-wide venues. Winter storm Nemo may make
travel challenging, but tonight, performances in <st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Virginia</st1:state> and <st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place> are scheduled to go ahead.<br />
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The form of the opera is the story. Composer <a href="http://matthewburtner.com/">Matthew Burtner</a>
and media artist <a href="http://scottdeal.net/">Scott Deal</a>, created a system of telecommunications and
informatics, a 'telematic', they say reflect the geographies of distance and interconnection. Performers
play live in different venues. By video and audio these performances are mixed
in one location and sent out via the Internet to the other locations. Audiences
contribute via their laptops or cell phones using NOMAD technology.</div>
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Audience members in any one space will see and hear the live
performance happening immediately before them and see the content created in
another city. In no single location will the audience perceive the full work. Like
an ecosystem, these musical elements create interacting layers that transform into
new intricate structures.<br />
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‘Auksalaq’ is the Inupiat word for ‘melting snow/ice’. The
narrative content is held together with a dramatic account of a boy’s journey,
and incorporates testimonials from people in the region, social and political
perspectives and scientific information along with characters personifying
wind, sun, shifting ice, and clouds. These are layered with visual art, dance
and music. Burtner’s score incorporates sung and spoken voices,
instrumental soloists and ensembles, computer-generated sound, video and
sonifications, including that of data on ice melt.<br />
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‘The composition foregrounds ‘remoteness’ creating a
spectacle that is both complete and incomplete in each location. In this way Auksalaq captures a feeling
experienced by people living in the far north, a centred feeling of deep
attachment to the land but also an uncomfortable sense of isolation.'<br />
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The technology requires Internet2 and cannot be streamed live. There are sequences from earlier performances <a href="http://blip.tv/Bigrobot">here</a> and <a href="http://auksalaq.org/main/media/">here</a>.<br />
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Explanations of how the opera works are <a href="http://auksalaq.org/main/how-auksalaq-works/">here</a> and <a href="http://auksalaq.org/main/writings/">here</a>.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-83405398706271174222013-02-07T09:41:00.002+00:002013-02-08T10:11:14.126+00:00New on our news page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Opening at the Bush Theatre in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>, <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=200997_29223269">£10,000
in coins</a> come onstage for <i>Money, The Game Show</i>.</div>
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Coming up at the Royal Court are Anders Lustgarden's <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=200997_29223269"><i>If
you don't let us dream, we won't let you sleep</i></a>, about austerity,</div>
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and Bruce Norris' <i>The Low Road</i>, a fable on the <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=200997_29223269">'natural'
cruelty</a> of free market capitalism (<i>image above</i>).<br />
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Continuing at Nottingham Contemporary, John Newling's exhibition looks at the <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=2012910_29705447">ecologies of value</a> in the natural world and economic systems.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-3618418122083752762013-02-03T23:57:00.000+00:002013-02-04T00:05:28.554+00:00Chasing Ice Chases Oscar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/movies/chasing-ice-documents-the-work-of-james-balog.html?_r=0">Chasing Ice</a>, </i>a film about <i>National Geographic</i> photographer James Blalog's quest to document the melting glaciers, has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song. The film, directed by Jeff Orlowski, chronicles Blalog's three-year project setting up time-lapse cameras to chronicle the effects of climate change on the great glaciers of the world. Although the film is in limited release, the Oscar nomination should bring more attention to it. Screenings in the UK, Canada and the US are listed <a href="http://www.chasingice.com/see-the-film/showtimes-2/">here</a>.</div>
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<i>Chasing Ice</i> has won twenty-three awards at film festivals, including the Environmental Media Association's Best Documentary Award. The nominated song, "Before My Time," was written by J. Ralph. It is performed by Scarlett Johansson and violinist Joshua Bell.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-37599223013916649262013-01-31T10:33:00.000+00:002013-02-11T10:03:33.588+00:0014 ways to look at Scotland<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Wallace Heim writes</i>:<br />
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The <a href="http://www.snh.gov.uk/enjoying-the-outdoors/year-of-natural-scotland-2013/creative-nature-projects/">Year of Natural Scotland</a>, an initiative led by the
Scottish government, connects the country’s natural diversity and its artistic
life. Their economic incentive is to develop tourism and the events industries.
The means to do this include <a href="http://www.creativescotland.com/news/fourteen-projects-to-receive-support-through-the-year-of-natural-scotland-open-fund-28012013#.UQgNnMsxplA.wordpress">14 arts projects across every region of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Scotland</st1:country-region></a>.<br />
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The projects, supported by Creative Scotland and Scottish
Natural Heritage, will share £500,000 to create events, poetry, walks, films and installations that combine the country’s natural and cultural life.</div>
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An outline of the projects shows their geographic and
artistic diversity. The longer list of organisations, groups and communities
that are collaborating on each project shows the social reach of this economic
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<a href="http://www.nva.org.uk/">NVA</a> presents Island Drift, a lighting and photographic
project on the islands of <st1:place w:st="on">Loch Lomond.</st1:place></div>
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<st1:country-region w:st="on">Scotland</st1:country-region>'s
Botanic Gardens in <st1:city w:st="on"><a href="http://www.rbge.org.uk/">Edinburgh</a></st1:city>,
Argyll, the Borders and Dumfries & Galloway will develop writing and
walking residencies.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sensescotland.org.uk/">Sense Scotland</a>, working with children and adults with complex sensory impairments, will take groups into remote areas near Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow to work with artists to create sensory artworks based on their experiences of the landscape. </div>
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<a href="http://www.wide-open.net/index.php">Wide Open</a> and Crichton Carbon Centre, Spring Fling and the
Stove will present an International Environmental Arts Festival based on themes
of land and energy.</div>
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<a href="http://northlightdunbar.org/2013/01/year-of-natural-scotland-funding-2013/">Walking a Line</a> by Dunbar North Light Arts is a year-long
site-specific project of walking, marking and recording in the environment.</div>
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<a href="http://www.gcvgreennetwork.gov.uk/">Sound Out@Seven Lochs</a> will compose music and soundscapes for
a new planned wetland park near <st1:city w:st="on">Glasgow.</st1:city></div>
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<a href="http://www.smallpetitklein.com/">Smallpetitklein Dance Company</a> will present an outdoor event
with professional and non-professional dancers around the Tentsmuir Nature
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Tabula Rasa Dance Company will bring together artists, environmentalists
and people <a href="http://workingthetweed.wordpress.com/">working on the River Tweed</a>.</div>
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Tiny Geographies, by composer and television director <a href="http://www.dooks.org/">ChrisDooks</a>, will gather local stories and music for festivals in Aberdeenshire and
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For Natural Bennachie, three artists will work with
scientists to celebrate the heritage of this <a href="http://www.forestry.gov.uk/website/wildwoods.nsf/LUWebDocsByKey/ScotlandMorayandAberdeenshireNoForestForestsofMorayandAberdeenshireBennachie">north-eastern landmark</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://www.readingbus.co.uk/drupal/">My Place in the Natural World</a> will involve young people in <st1:city w:st="on">Aberdeen</st1:city> and
creative digital media.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.highlandprintstudio.co.uk/">Highland Print Studio</a> and <st1:place w:st="on"><a href="http://www.capefarewell.com/">Cape Farewell</a></st1:place> will deliver the exhibition Sexy Peat celebrating
the Lewis blanket bog.</div>
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Composers <a href="http://www.ingethomson.com/">Inge Thomson</a> and <a href="http://www.shetland-music.com/prominent_artists/artistes/lise_sinclair/">Lise Sinclair</a> will create Da
Fishing Hands, a project featuring song about <st1:place w:st="on">Fair
Isle</st1:place>’s fishing grounds and their changing and sustainable use.<br />
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<a href="http://thebothyproject.blogspot.co.uk/p/sweenys-bothy.html">Sweeny's Bothy / Bothan Shuibhne</a> is an off-grid retreat for artists, writers and the public, involving events, walks, residencies reflecting on wild nature and contemporary culture.<br />
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In addition to these projects, in the Autumn, the Year of Natural Scotland will host a major conference, 'Reading the Landscape' exploring the representation, mis-representation, imagining and re-imagining of nature in Scotland. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-70948078579759638312013-01-24T09:20:00.004+00:002013-01-24T09:34:02.927+00:00Sanitation is culture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Mierle Laderman Ukeles (<i>right</i>) </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">talking with <br />Brooklyn Museum employee Peggy Johnson</span></td></tr>
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<i>Wallace Heim writes</i>:<br />
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In New York last week, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, artist in
residence since 1977 for the New York City Department of Sanitation, conducted
a series of live interviews with <a href="http://galleristny.com/2013/01/trash-talk-the-department-of-sanitations-artist-in-residence-is-a-real-survivor/">Brooklyn Museum's daily maintenance staff</a>,
window washers, floor sweepers, security guards, and told them what they do is
"the first kind of culture".<br />
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In her performance, which also included architects and city
planners, she asked each person a series of questions: How do you personally
survive? What do you need to do to keep going? What happens to your dreams and
your freedom when you do the things you have to do to keep surviving? What
keeps <st1:city w:st="on">New York City</st1:city>
alive? What does the city need to do to survive after <st1:city w:st="on">Sandy</st1:city>?.</div>
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Ukeles told the workers, "Here's the museum with all this
stuff, and then there's what you do. You are culture, and your work is culture.
And the endless hours that will never be done, that's what enable us to be in
an institution like this. Mopping up the garbage from yesterday. It's safe. And
the things in here are taken care of. That's culture."</div>
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Full interview with Ukeles on <a href="http://galleristny.com/2013/01/trash-talk-the-department-of-sanitations-artist-in-residence-is-a-real-survivor/">Gallerist NY</a>.<br />
photo: Carole DeBeer, courtesy Brooklyn Museum.<br />
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h/t to <a href="http://ecoartscotland.net/">ecoartscotland.net</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-79773425176860922892013-01-18T10:28:00.002+00:002013-01-18T10:32:39.632+00:00New on our news page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's the award season, nominations are open, as is a new chance for Fringe funding. <br />
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IdeasTap and Underbelly will <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=2012626_94076175">help new shows</a> get to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=2012626_94076175">Dark Mountain 4</a> and the <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=2012626_94076175">Nick Darke Award</a> are welcoming submissions.<br />
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Nominations for the <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121029_78538150">AWEInspiring</a> Arts and Environment Award are open until 28 January.<br />
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COAL Prize nominations for works on the <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121029_78538150">theme of 'adaptation'</a> are open until 28 February.<br />
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And a new exhibition <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=2012910_29705447">Frozen Relics: Arctic Works</a> opened this week at the Architectural Association in London. <i>(image above) </i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-13505914123114510712013-01-10T15:29:00.001+00:002013-01-10T15:29:09.915+00:00from six seasons to two<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bronze-winged jacana. Photo: India nature watch</td></tr>
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<i>Kellie Gutman writes:</i><br />
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The state of Orissa, located in east-central India, was once known for having <a href="http://infochangeindia.org/disasters/related-features/death-of-the-seasons.html">six seasons</a>. Not only were there six, Grishmar (summer), Barsha (rainy), Sarata (autumn), Hemanta (dew), Sisira (winter), and Basanta (spring), each two months long, but the people in the area could forecast the onset of each one by the behaviour of certain birds. For instance, the bronze-winged jacana would lay its eggs during the monsoons, so its mating calls signaled the arrival of the rains.<br />
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But climate change has brought excessive heat to Orissa, and now people say there are only two seasons: rains and summer. Winter is just a short transition between them.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://austinlivetheatre.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4189:once-there-were-six-seasons-environmental-puppetry-by-glass-half-full-theatre-february-21-march-2013&catid=905:coming-soon&Itemid=160">The Glass Half Full Theatre</a> in Austin, Texas, which crafts "Environmental Puppetry" is putting on <i>Once There Were Six Seasons</i>, opening February 13, 2013. Environmental Puppetry uses very small puppets on large landscapes with visible puppeteers. The puppetry focuses on the changing landscapes more than on the actual puppets. Their earlier work, <i>Bob's Hardware</i>, about a small family-owned hardware store being pushed out by a big-box store can be seen <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0jhWK5MFwU">here</a>.<br />
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<i>Once There Were Six Seasons </i>is based on the story of Orissa's seasons, as told to the artistic director, Caroline Reck, on her visit to India.<br />
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See: <i><a href="http://moreintelligentlife.com/node/2618/www.infochangeindia.org">What happened to the seasons</a></i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-80940089474092458272013-01-08T12:56:00.000+00:002013-01-08T13:03:18.829+00:00New on our news page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The year is starting with talks of passages, meanders and
visions, and new productions exploring revelations, home and change.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121029_29340762">urgency of rivers</a> meets the roles of contemporary art in
discussions and an exhibition on the River Tamar. </div>
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Also in <st1:city w:st="on">Plymouth</st1:city>,
Baz Kershaw talks on <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121120_77625674">meadow meanders</a> and everyday performances of repair.</div>
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In <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>,
at the <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121029_29340762">TEDx Whitechapel</a> day, theatre and storytelling mingle with economics,
law and science.<br />
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Coming up are dreamthinkspeak's <i><a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=200997_29223269">In the Beginning Was The End</a></i>, in London, and Fevered Sleep's <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=200997_29223269"><i>Above Me The Wide Blue Sky</i></a>, touring Lancaster, Coventry and the Young Vic, London.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-91910766255919360192012-12-26T16:40:00.002+00:002012-12-26T16:45:04.865+00:00Peace on earth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i>Kellie Gutman writes</i>:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://www.planetarycollective.com/overview/">OVERVIEW</a> is a short documentary with near-constant views of the earth </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">from space interspersed with comments form astronauts, philosophers </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">and writers. The word "overview" is used to refer to the astronauts' </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">views of the earth. It was released December 7th, 2012 and is a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">prelude to a film in the making, CONTINUUM. OVERVIEW gives a strong </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">sense of the world being one environment, and a very fragile one, that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">needs to be protected.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-42903998557604772282012-12-11T13:23:00.002+00:002012-12-11T13:34:49.298+00:00The tide could turn with 'Ten Billion'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Wallace Heim writes</i>:<br />
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Theatre critic Kate Abbott in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/dec/10/best-theatre-2012-ten-billion?intcmp=ILCMUSTXT9386">today's Guardian</a> joins Michael
Billington in reporting <a href="http://ashdenizen.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/ten-billion-from-another-view.html">a life-changing experience</a> watching <i>Ten Billion</i> at the <st1:street w:st="on">Royal Court</st1:street>.<br />
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Like the facts that Stephen Emmott presented, Abbott can recite
the well-polished instructions to "help us out of this hole":</div>
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"Never buying a car, iPod, or cotton T-shirt again …
stopping our addiction to fossil fuels, starting a mass-desalination programme,
building green energy power points on every strip of land, harnessing every
scrap of wind, and every turn of the tide …"<br />
<br />
But one change is missing. What about demanding that theatre itself changes? What about demanding that mainstream theatre no longer turns away from the compelling emotional, moral and intellectual questions of how humans can continue to live in a time of climate instability? Theatre is more than science, more than facts, more than an instruction manual. What about demanding that theatre takes on its full life-changing role, somewhere between fiction and fact, and becomes the place where audiences wrestle with their future?<br />
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<i>See </i><a href="http://ashdenizen.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/ten-billion-from-another-view.html"><i>'Ten Billion' from another side</i></a>.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-76641899647049803182012-12-07T11:33:00.001+00:002012-12-11T13:31:59.147+00:00'Ten Billion' from another side<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Wallace Heim writes</i>:<br />
<br />
Michael Billington, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/dec/05/best-theatre-of-2012?intcmp=122">in his nomination</a> of <i>Ten Billion</i> as the
best theatre event of 2012, claims that all the people he knows who saw the
production found it life-changing. From my unscientific poll of the dozen
people I know who saw the production, including myself, it’s possible we were
in a different theatre. The lecture was well-crafted, the production tight, but
the event was neither moving, informative or motivating. It was ‘old news’, a
‘first-year introductory lecture’, ‘Al Gore without the cherry picker’.<br />
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Billington’s lauding of the production is encouraging. That
he, and others, were deeply affected is even more so, although one wonders what
he has avoided reading or seeing for the past 20 years if the information presented
was shocking. But Billington finds that it is not merely the accumulation of
statistics, but the presence - the performance - of Stephen Emmott, the
verifiable scientist, the speaker with a creditable reputation outside the
theatre, that gave the production its urgency.</div>
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For this audience, the fluid realm of belief and disbelief
that makes theatre work had to break down for the shock of climate instability
to be heard. At the same time, the very theatrical occasion of sitting in that
darkened room redolent of emotions of past productions, listening to another
human speak, heightened any effect. </div>
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Asking again of those who found the production lacking, I
found each person had, in their experience outside the theatre, at least one, if not many moments when the
numbers add up, when the terror hits, when someone trusted speaks about a
future irreconcilable with what one could bear. These events can be motivating
and if <i>Ten Billion</i> provided that for some, then theatre’s role as educator has
been met. </div>
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But if you’ve already had that experience, theatre is where
you want to go to understand it, and a collocation of facts will not do that.
This is a far more confused territory, requiring human imagination and many
avenues of intelligence, deliberation, conflict and consent. It requires doing something like the processes of science,
itself – its questioning and cross-questioning, experimentation, doubt and
informed agreement.</div>
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Theatre may not be the place to present firm courses of
action; Emmott’s advice to get a gun falls especially short. Conventional forms
of theatre may, or may not, be adequate to the combination of reality and
fiction that understanding climate change demands. But theatre, or something
like it, continues to be a place where collectively, humans find a way through.
There will continue to be many kinds of productions for many kinds of
audiences. The hunger for a theatre by the audience that gets the facts but
wants more continues to be strong. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-68084208310097271422012-12-06T10:43:00.004+00:002012-12-11T13:32:18.103+00:00'Ten Billion' changes Billington<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Wallace Heim writes</i>:<br />
<br />
Michael Billington in today's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/dec/05/best-theatre-of-2012?intcmp=122">Guardian</a> nominates <i><a href="http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/ten-billion">Ten Billion</a></i> as the 'most momentous theatrical performance' of 2012. The show was a lecture by Stephen Emmott, at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, on the consequences of human overpopulation and climate change.<br />
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Billington writes:<br />
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'I came out
shaking with fear, but also moved by theatre's capacity to confront the
emergency facing our planet.<br />
<br />
'This was theatre doing what it does best:
confronting us with unpalatable facts about our very existence. This doesn't
mean that there is no room for invented stories or that King Lear and The
Lion King have suddenly become redundant. But <i>Ten Billion</i>, directed by Katie
Mitchell, shocked us into a new awareness of the future, and even the
existing present, with ecosystems being destroyed, the atmosphere polluted,
temperatures rising and a billion people facing water shortages.<br />
<br />
'I don't
know a single person who saw it who didn't feel it was a life-changing
experience. If enough people, especially those in positions of power, could
see Emmott's lecture, it might, just might, help to save our planet from
destruction'.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-45839920526403093732012-12-04T17:29:00.001+00:002012-12-04T17:29:33.503+00:00Turkey limerick results<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Kellie Gutman writes:</i><br />
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Although my limerick did not win an iPad at the Greengrok blog of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, it did garner second runner-up. You can read the results <a href="http://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/this-years-environmental-turkey-is/">here</a>.<br />
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See <i><a href="http://ashdenizen.blogspot.com/2012/11/environmental-turkey.html">There once was a turkey</a></i><br />
<a href="http://ashdenizen.blogspot.com/2012/11/turkey-limerick-melting-glaciers.html"><i>Turkey limerick: melting glaciers</i></a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-6710855361765711482012-11-27T14:25:00.001+00:002012-11-27T14:28:46.217+00:00new on our news page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Common Dance, </i>choreographer: Rosemary Lee</td></tr>
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A cluster of arts events in the next ten days consider different kinds of economy, generosity and profit.<br />
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Choreographer Rosemary Lee draws together a day of talks and films '<a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121029_29340762">On Taking Care</a>' in London.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121029_29340762">Patronage and the theatre</a> is explored at Birkbeck College, London.<br />
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Tim Jeeves' live art project '<a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121029_29340762">Giving in to Gift'</a> ends with a day of talks at the Bluecoat, Liverpool.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121029_29340762">Climate and race</a> are correlated with corporate oil practices by Virtual Migrants in an evening of spoken word and music in Manchester.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-71081269010870538562012-11-26T16:38:00.001+00:002012-11-26T16:39:05.906+00:00Turkey limerick: melting glaciers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melting Glaciers in the Himalayas (Credit: top-10-list.org)</td></tr>
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<i>Kellie Gutman writes:</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
Unable to pass up the opportunity to submit an "<a href="http://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/environmentalturkey2012-2/">Environmental Turkey of 2012</a>" in the form of a limerick, to the Nicholas School of Environment contest at Duke University, I have chosen the epidemic of melting glaciers worldwide as my subject. The contest, open to American citizens, ends at midnight Eastern Standard Time tonight. <br />
<br />
My offering:<br />
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<i>As the global temperature warms<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Our planet reacts with fierce storms.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The impact is felt<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>When our glaciers melt<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>And the coastline around us re-forms.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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See: <i><a href="http://ashdenizen.blogspot.com/2012/11/environmental-turkey.html">There once was a turkey</a></i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-12373183484860219392012-11-23T15:07:00.001+00:002012-11-23T15:15:11.450+00:00 There once was a turkey ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/files/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-1.01.51-PM-299x350.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/files/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-21-at-1.01.51-PM-299x350.png" width="273" /></a></div>
<i>Wallace Heim writes</i>:<br />
<br />
As if the American holiday of Thanksgiving wasn't hard enough on turkeys, the pejorative use of the word gives the Greengrok blog the chance to <a href="http://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/environmentalturkey2012-2/">stage a contest</a> for the 'Environmental Turkey of 2012' . The prize is an iPad. The catch is that nominations have to be in the form of a limerick.<br />
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Their sampler: <br />
<br />
Two thousand twelve, oh what a mess<br />
Dirty ads, gridlock, but I digress<br />
When it comes to green<br />
Little progress was seen<br />
Who’s the turkey to blame for this mess?<br />
<br />
You have until 26 November to submit a turkey. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-71489536336235763292012-11-14T14:04:00.001+00:002012-11-14T14:06:32.199+00:00new on our news page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tomorrow night in London, five writers talk <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121029_29340762">poetry, fiction, travel and climate</a>: Tom Chivers, Daniel Kramb, Rachel Lichtenstein, Michael McKimm and Ruth Little.<br />
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There's film coming up in Glasgow: '<a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121113_6174868">It's the Skin You're Living In</a>' at FuelFest, and in Berlin: the <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121113_6174868">GROUNDED</a> festival of films about soil.<br />
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'Adaptation' is this year's theme for the <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121029_78538150">COAL Prize</a>, Paris. Applications are open.<br />
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And in Edinburgh, Bruno Latour will give the Gifford Lectures in February, searching for <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121114_94749088">theatre and ritual</a> in a world of Gaia and politics.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-88695412807344121572012-11-13T09:32:00.001+00:002012-11-13T09:39:34.590+00:00Hitting the high water mark<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Wallace Heim writes</i>:<br />
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The Talk of the Town in the <i>New Yorker</i> last week was all about Sandy. Elizabeth Kolbert <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2012/11/12/121112ta_talk_kolbert">framed her piece</a> on the impossibility of flood protection around an artwork by Eve Mosher.<br />
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Using a Heavy Hitter, the machine to make chalk lines on baseball fields, Mosher drew a blue line around the edge of Brooklyn and lower Manhattan ten feet above sea level, the height that waters were expected to rise during a once-in-a-hundred-year flood.<br />
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Mosher’s plan with <a href="http://www.evemosher.com/2007/highwaterline/">High Water Line</a> was to leave a visual mark and to open up a space for conversation, in 2007.<br />
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"I have pictures of where I drew the line and, if you look at the debris line, they’re pretty close", Mosher writes on her blog, continuing, "<a href="http://www.evemosher.com/2012/i-never-wanted-to-be-right/">I never wanted to be right</a>."</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-84610559284814795432012-11-01T13:28:00.001+00:002012-11-01T13:36:34.911+00:00New on our news page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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TippingPoint launches a crowd-sourced <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121029_32502383">database of climate art</a>.<br />
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Kieran Lynn wins the <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=2012101_78953189">Nick Darke Award</a> for his play <i>Wild
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There are events in the <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20121029_29340762">forest at Wysing Arts</a> in <st1:city w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:city>.<br />
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TJ Demos writes on <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/news.asp?pageIdentifier=20101214_29845828">gardens, biotech and the politics of ecology</a> at dOCUMENTA 13. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655916971178762059.post-28835452047200207632012-10-24T10:40:00.003+01:002012-10-24T11:03:32.912+01:00A bestiary of wonders, or, 'Attenborough on acid'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Wallace Heim writes</i>:<br />
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Caspar Henderson’s <i><a href="http://grantabooks.com/3032/The-Book-of-Barely-Imagined-Beings/2646">The Book of Barely Imagined Beings. A 21st Century Bestiary</a></i> came out this month, published
by Granta. Here on Ashdenizen, Caspar
contributed to our metaphors for sustainability with <a href="http://ashdenizen.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/caspar-henderson-writer-and-journalist_1805.html">coral reef</a>. And on the Ashden Directory, he was part of our panel on <a href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/featuresView.asp?pageIdentifier=20051115_91709537&view=archive">theatre and climate change</a> in 2006.<br />
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Robert Macfarlane calls <i>The Book of Barely Imagined Beings</i> a
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Reviewers are marveling at how the compendium of real animals, from the axolotl to the zebra fish, prompts Caspar's essays on the nature of
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<a href="http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2012/10/the-book-of-barely-imagined-beings/">Roy Wilkinson</a> for Caught by the
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<a href="http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/books/features/book-review-the-book-of-barely-imagined-beings-1-2555452">Stuart Kelly</a> in the <i>Scotsman</i></div>
<a href="http://www.welovethisbook.com/reviews/book-barely-imagined-beings">John Lloyd</a> for We Love This Book<br />
<a href="http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/what-s-on/books/an_a_z_of_beautiful_beasts_1_1659893">Anthony Davies</a> in the <i>Ham and High</i>.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.barelyimaginedbeings.com/p/advance-praise-for-book-of-barely.html">advance reviews</a> are by Robert
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Real Monstrosities calls it '<a href="http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2012/10/review-book-of-barely-imagined-beings.html">fantastic!</a>'.</div>
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<i>Kellie Gutman writes:</i><br />
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With <i>War Horse </i>coming to the end of its run in Boston, the theatre critic for the <i>Boston Globe</i>, Don Aucoin remarks on the <a href="http://articles.boston.com/2012-10-06/arts/34255306_1_world-war-combat-drama-baghdad-zoo">dearth of war dramas </a>on stage. He writes:<br />
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<i>During a decade when the United States was mired in two wrenching, costly, and divisive wars, the only combat drama to win a Tony Award as best play was a heartwarming, puppet-driven tale about a British lad and his beloved steed in World War I: War Horse... In fact, if you scan the list of plays, musicals, and performances nominated for Tonys in the past ten years, you'd barely know we were at war at all.</i><br />
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Until recently, much the same could be said about plays on climate change.<br />
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See <i><a href="http://ashdenizen.blogspot.com/2011/02/british-playwrights-have-blithely.html">british playwrights have "blithely ignored" climate change</a></i></div>
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