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21 Jul 2008
UK, Kent |
The Camp for Climate Action, at Kingsnorth, Kent, 3rd to 11th August.
"The world is changing. Food riots abroad, house prices and pensions collapsing at home, energy prices skyrocketing worldwide. And slap bang in the middle of all of this - climate change."
Oganize and make culture for a sustainable future not dependent on endles capitalist expansion.
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20 Jul 2008
Where do you stand?
US, Chicago |
July 21 + 22nd, 2008
Futurefarmers in collaboration with the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum will host two building workshops and 4 discussion sessions led by scientists from the University of Chicago. The general public will be invited to participate in discussions with the guests in the Energy Tent.
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17 Jul 2008
Germany |
This "land art" exhibition takes place in Germany's largest former brown coal mining sites, located between the city of Dresden and the Polish border. Artists Rupprecht Matthies (Hamburg),Joanna Rajkowska (Warsaw) and Bertram Weisshaar (Leipzig)have all contributed site specific works.
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15 Jul 2008
Italy |
July 19th-November 2nd, 2008
Raqs Media Collective's , co-curated portion of the nomadic biennial Manifesta 7, will be presenting an exhibition entitled "The Rest of Now" which addresses historic residues in the present tense. Set in an abandoned aluminum factory in Bolzano, Italy, the show works "to see what can be salvaged from the oblivion to which the residues of Modernism are normally consigned."
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08 Jul 2008
San Francisco |
It is really happening. Instigated as an art project and utopian proposal to the city, San Francisco has accepted and hosting a Victory Garden in front of City Hall.
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06 Jul 2008
Anywhere |
Gallery 16 generously publishes "Victory Gardens 2007+". A chronicle of the reimagining of the original wartime Victory Garden program. The book features essays by Lucy Lippard and Mike Davis along with historical photos and context, and project documentation and insight.
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05 Jul 2008
Various |
A series of seminars, lectures, screenings, syllabii and literature on the notion of the political in postmarxist theory developed by Katja Diefenbach, Advising Researcher Theory Department, Jan-van-Eyck-Akademie Maastricht
2008 the seminars focus on the analysis of labor power, immaterial work, and the notion of common.
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01 Jul 2008
chtodelat?
St Petersburg |
Chto delat/What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see full list of participants on the web site) with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism.
Since then, Chto delat has been publishing an English-Russian newspaper on issues central to engaged culture, with a special focus on the relationship between a repoliticization of Russian intellectual culture and its broader international context.
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28 Jun 2008
Belgium |
1% WATER, an exhibition running at art center Z33, aims to be a catalyst for change, reconnecting us physically and psychologically to water and helping us to shape a sustainable future.
Part of it, the Water Archive, is an aquatic 'laboratory' immersing the visitor in water samples collected from the region of Hasselt. The archive aims to provoke questions about the character of natural waters and to raise awareness of man-made issues such as pollution.
Visitors can help to complete the archive by bringing or sending water samples from their own environment. Fresh water from the euregion, Belgium and other places is welcome.
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26 Jun 2008
London, UK |
1 July at 7pm
If the government is to be believed, we are undergoing a streak of freakily bad luck. First the credit crunch, then astronomical fuel price hikes and now a global food crisis. Could all these by any chance be connected?
Mute magazine will be hosting an open discussion with contributions from: Gareth Dale (author of recent critiques of 'green capitalism' including 'On the Menu or At the Table: Corporations and Climate Change'), James Heartfield (author of Green Capitalism: Manufacturing Scarcity in the Age of Abundance), Helena Paul (co-director of Econexus, http://www.econexus.info/ and long term campaigner against GM and Agrofuels), Graham Burnett (vegan-punk permaculturist and founder of Spiralseed.org.uk)
The Church House
Fletcher St (off Cable St)
London E1
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Soil is the vital system which supports growth of plants which supply food and oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide and nitrogen is a foundation of life, ...
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For the Garage festival 09 Free Soil have conducted a site specific research project investigating the environment of the Baltic Sea.
We created an alternative archive of political and historical events that have occurred in the Baltic Sea region, especially Stralsund and linked these with the sea’s responses. The impact of Industrialisation, population growth and political changes has resulted in climatic and environmental changes recorded in the sea. Nature retaliates by creating new forms, one of the most significant being the spread and growth of toxic Blue Green Algae or “phytoplankton”
Images: wooden sewerage pipe from Stralsund. &
Portrait of William Lindley the designer of the first sewerage system in Stralsund, algae on paper. |
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