- To: cristinewang@yahoo.com
- Subject: symposium @ New Museum Zenith Media Lounge, April 7 (5:30pm)
- From: cristine wang <cristinewang@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:30:54 -0800 (PST)
hi! if you are in town, please come to a symposium i'm organising with anne barlow at the New Museum Zenith Media Lounge on April 7, Sunday at 5:30pm. The panelists are: Robert Atkins (art historian + critic), artists Betty Beaumont, Peter Fend, and Marjetica Potrc. if the attachment is garbled, click on: http://cristine.org/events/sustainability.html hope to see you there! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/Title: For Immediate Release
New Museum
Media Z lounge
583 Broadway (between Houston and Prince Streets
in SoHo)
New York, NY 10012
cordially invites you to:
"Strategies for Sustainability in a
Global Economy"
Symposium
Sunday April 7, 2002
5:30 p.m.
Panelists: Robert Atkins, Betty Beaumont, Peter Fend & Marjetica Potrc
Moderated & Organized by: Cristine Wang in collaboration with Anne Barlow
The New Museum Media Z Lounge cordially invites you to the symposium "Strategies for Sustainability in a Global Economy".
The symposium will address the following questions: What is the societal role of art, and the ethics of our interventions in our built environment? What are the critical environmental and ecological prevention issues which have an impact on the global village? What are some examples of sustainable development from the point of view of industrial ecology? How may we find new strategies for environmental management, waste reduction, pollution prevention? Can art have a role in shaping the environment in which we live? What new technologies are there which may benefit humanity in environmentally friendly ways? We see that emerging technologies that link the world together are not ethically neutral, but often have long-term implications for viability of natural systems, human rights, and our common future.
We may find some possibilities in the words of Joseph Beuys' and his theory of "Social Sculpture":
"...Social Sculpture--how we mold and
shape the world in which we live:
SCULPTURE AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS...
All around us the fundamentals of life are
crying out to be shaped, or created."
ROBERT ATKINS
is a New York-based art historian and author--and
a former columnist for The Village Voice, the author of books including "ArtSpeak:
A Guide to Contempory Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords," and the recipient of
awards for art criticism from the NEA, Manufacturers Hanover Bank, and the Penny
McCall Foundation. A fellow at Carnegie
Mellon's Studio for Creative Inquiry, he is arts
editor of The Media Channel (www.mediachannel.org, editor in chief of Artery:
The AIDS-Arts Forum (www.artistswithaids.org/artery), and an instructor at the
Rhode Island School of Design. He is a founder of Visual AIDS, the group that
originated Day Without Art and the Red Ribbon, the initiator of 911‹THE
SEPTEMBER 11 PROJECT: Cultural Intervention in Civic Society (http://rhizome.org/911),
and is currently at work on an anthology of his writing called "Eye/I
Witness: Art Writing as Activism, Criticism and
Reportage."
BETTY BEAUMONT
Betty Beaumont is an internationally recognized
New York artist who has been actively involved with solution-based
sustainability strategies for more than 3 decades. Twenty-two years ago Beaumont
founded Art Research Collaboration, Inc. and has worked and consulted with
scientists, engineers and scholars on such global issues as energy, species
diversity, health and environmental hazards of toxins, and the elimination of
waste. Her ecologically concerned work has been shown extensively in New York
and Europe including P.S.1 Museum, the Queens Museum, and the Whitney Museum of
American Art as well as the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and Kyoto.
She has received fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Pollock
Krasner Foundation. Beaumont has taught at the University of California at
Berkeley, New York University, and is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia
University in the Graduate School of Architecture.
PETER FEND
Active at sites throughout the world, eco-artist
Peter Fend will discuss the satellite-derived truths about Big Oil and Nuclear
Power, focusing on the Gulf and on Chernobyl. He will then show practical
solutions for now-damaged regions, working with already-researched
zero-pollution energy systems which have yet to become industrial. To achieve
his essentially architectural, or habitat, aims, Fend has a long-standing
practice of collaborating with other artists, and with architects, scientists,
economists and scholars, converging their creative inputs on to specific
environmental tasks. The vehicle for practice is a business corporation, Ocean
Earth Development Corporation. Founded in 1980, following through on various 70s
efforts at multi-artist ventures and collaborations, Ocean Earth seeks to
combine various art probes with recent science and engineering to effect
realistic solutions to large-scale problems. Fend sees this work as
Architecture, citing the thesis of Leon Battista Alberti that architecture is
concerned with the city, the inhabited region, and for that makes the material/
technical arrangements, the siting of suitable technologies, which assure (1)
clean air, (2) clean water, (3) circulatory space, (4) defense against damage
from outside. To achieve these ends, Ocean Earth has been site-testing new
energy technologies, modeling earthworks that would restore freshwater cycles,
designing lightweight megastructures and, for defense, countering the Pentagon's
space-based scenarios with campaigns for a wide diffusion of satellite imagery
of hotspots for citizens' review. The obstacles to success, Fend concludes from
experience, are not technical, nor even aesthetic; they're political.
MARJETICA POTRC
Slovenian artist & Hugo Boss Prize Winner
Marjetica Potrc will discuss her body of work currently on exhibition at Max
Protetch Gallery (NYC). Her first major exhibition in New York was held at
the Guggenheim on the occasion of the Hugo Boss Prize in 2000. Potrc’s
work comes from a well thought-out, politically minded position, focused around
the needs and desires of people and their interactions with a changing urban
environment. Potrc articulates her belief in the aesthetic and political
power that people create through individual initiative. As Francesco
Bonami writes in his essay for the Hugo Boss Prize catalogue, Potrc’s “living
structures… show how the inhabitants of favelas and townships produce a
threatening autonomy that challenges the planned structure of a city.”
ANNE BARLOW is curator of the New
Museum's Media Z Lounge.
CRISTINE WANG is an independent curator
& critic <www.cristine.org>
For More Information, Contact:
Anne Barlow
tel: 212.219.1222 (x.205)
email: medialounge@newmuseum.org
Cristine Wang
tel: 917.318.0081
email: info@cristine.org
--- End Message ---