A couple of days of slogging hard through the Venice Biennale this year left one message – the environment doesn’t matter and neither do those concerned with ‘preserving’ it. I spent my days enjoying some wonderful art, being astonished by art that was bland or crass – or both – and looking for art that [...]
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Why is environmentalism so unimportant? Thomas Hirschhorn at the Venice Biennale.
4 September 2011, 1:10 pm
Filed under Conceptual Art, Installation.
Tagged consumption, culture, endangered species, social art, unsustainability
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Cultural Response To Climate Change – David Buckland and Cape Farewell
14 March 2011, 2:00 pm
The creation, expansion and success of Cape Farewell maybe represents the most ambitious, most far-sighted and most successful effort to date to place the arts front and center in the debate about climate change. Created by David Buckland in 2001, Cape Farewell brings together artists, scientists, educators and the media in a series of expeditions [...]
Filed under Conceptual Art, Digital Art, Film, Literature, Painting, Photography, Poetry, Social/Activist Art, Video.
Tagged Climate Change, culture, Royal Academy, social art
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ext Inked – Tattooes for Life
5 December 2009, 1:37 pm
How much do people care about the extinction of species? It turns out that a significant number of people care enough to become ‘permanent ambassadors’ of an endangered species. In a unique activist, social work of art, The Ultimate Holding Company, a co-operative based in Manchester, England, has just completed a project entitled ext Inked. [...]
Filed under Conceptual Art, Social/Activist Art.
Tagged biodiversity, endangered species, social art, tattoo
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