by Navjot Altaf | Aug 25, 2010 | 1, Issues, Magazine
We forget that in all cultures there exist philosophies, beliefs, myths, stories, and rituals, related to the earth as a cosmic center/ecology/ people’s relationship with their environment, which affects circumstances of living. But in the lack of a long-term...
by Shelley Sacks | Apr 21, 2010 | 1, Issues, Magazine
University of the Trees (www.universityofthetrees.org) is one of the current long-term social sculpture projects linked to the new Social Sculpture Association and to the Social Sculpture Research Unit(SSRU) at Oxford Brookes. The SSRU has a focus on doctoral...
by Shai Zakai | Apr 21, 2010 | 1, Issues, Magazine
The Israeli Forum for Ecological Art, is the only association of artists & scientists that I know of, in the world, which acts as a formal registered group, within an NGO state umbrella, to create an environmental change through art. Celebrating the tenth year of...
by Beverly Naidus | Apr 21, 2010 | 1, Issues, Magazine
[Editor’s Note: Teaching Art as a Subversive Activity: Cultural Democracy Meets Eco-art is the title of a WEAD sponsored ecoart panel for the October 2010 Bioneers ‘visionaries’ Conference in San Rafael, CA (www.bioneers.org). Guest moderator Beverly...
by Beth Carruthers | Apr 21, 2010 | 1, Issues, Magazine
I. FRAMING THE PRACTICE When discussing Canadian works on and about the land I find it valuable to bring forward the special cultural context in which these works arise. Even if an artist does not choose to consciously engage place histories in their work, these...
by Suzaan Boettger | Apr 21, 2010 | 1, Issues, Magazine
In New York in the 1970s, widespread desire for anti-traditional forms of behavior and art, surging feminist solidarity, and nascent environmentalism moved innovative women sculptors who worked in nature into a new presence in the art world. Not since Henry...
