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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.

Art + Activism / Sustainability
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.

Art + Activism / Free / Public Projects / Social Practice
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.

Exhibitions
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."

Artists / Exhibitions
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.

Art + Activism / Public Projects
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.

Art + Activism / Books
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.

Art + Activism / Education
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.

Art + Activism / Magazines
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.

Art + Activism / Exhibitions / Public Projects
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

Events / Sustainability / Urban/City
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Features
Here are the ten art projects that deal with the subject of Climate Change, including us.


Joni T
 
Projects  
nowHere, a space where a spot becomes a place.
15 march - 25 may, 2008

nowHere, is a cabinet which invokes a dialogue on re-appropriation of the private and public domain. Through personal tags and geographies (books, movies, music, websites, drawings, mappings, photocopies, art works, ... ) it reads as a 'certain' historical relation between human, space and technology.

bolwerK considers the constructed in-between space of architect C.Kieckens, within the art space, Z33, not as a sub-art space with a curatorial reading; a cabinet as 'museum' but as a space with a personal narrative and a social meaning embedded in a neighborhood. The active use of the space for living, eating, working, sleeping implies that the cabinet is more a 'room of collection', in a live, real-time situation.

During PLACE@SPACE Marthe Van Dessel will post live from Z33, as a guest contributor on Free Soil, to connect, publish and share her discourse
with the virtual open public resources of the net.

The the conceptualization of the space as 'ongoing', work-in-progress externalizes the precarity of information, issues of copyright, authorship, knowledge production and hierarchical information networks.
Marthe
 
Link of the Week:  
Interview with Fritz Haeg by Nato Thompson

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