E.P.A.
March 15 – May 3 Extended through June 7, 2008
Opening Saturday March 15, 7-9pm
ARTISTS // CURATORS// EVENTS // POSTER //SUPPORT // INFORMATION
Exit Art is pleased to announce the opening of E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions), the first project of S.E.A, a large-scale program dealing with current environmental concerns and the way artists respond to them. E.P.A is a group exhibition surveying recent performance work from around the world that addresses current environmental crises. The exhibition will consist of videos, photographs, texts, related ephemera and a film program documenting recent performances. For this opening project we have invited curator, Amy Lipton, and founder/co-curator Patricia Watts of ecoartspace, a leading international environmental arts organization, to collaborate with Exit Art on the organization and presentation of this material. E.P.A. will include performance documentation from more than 30 international artists. These works, created in the public sphere, draw attention to and engage the public in a dialogue about issues such as climate change, watersheds, urbanization and, ultimately, human survival. E.P.A. will set the precedence for future exhibitions of S.E.A. dealing with environmental issues including The End of Oil, about the global oil crisis and alternative energy, and Consume, about food production, agricultural and sustainable living practices. An exhibition of historical social-environmental art works is also planned to place this work in context.
ARTISTS
Brandon Ballengée, Vaughn Bell/Sarah Kavage/Nicole Kistler, Mark Brest van Kempen, Carissa Carman/Joanna Lake, Center for Tactical Magic, Susanne Cockrell/Ted Purves, Xavier Cortada, Carrie Dashow/Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg/The Society for a Subliminal State, Erica Fielder, Ozzie Forbes, Futurefarmers, , Fritz Haeg, Amy Howden-Chapman, Basia Irland, Scot Kaplan, Carolyn Lambert, Robin Lasser, Kathryn Miller, Matthew Moore, Eve S. Mosher, EcoArtTech: Christine Nadir/Cary Peppermint, Andrea Polli and Joe Gimore with scientific collaborator Dr. Patrick Market, Rapid Response (Cobb/Fend/Fischer/Meyer), James Reed and Social Sculpture Research Unit/Earth Agenda Projects, Tod Seelie/Miss Rockaway Armada, Austin Shull, Brooke Singer/Brian Rigney Hubbard, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Chris Sollars
CURATORS
Jeanette Ingberman
Papo Colo
Amy Lipton
Patricia Watts
PUBLIC EVENTS
Wednesday, March 26, 7pm
HUMAN/NATURE:
Panel discussion with:
Eve Mosher, artist
David Van Luven, climate change scientist and Hudson River program director at
The Nature Conservancy
Moderator:
Patricia Watts, founder and co-curator of ecoartspace
Presented in collaboration with ecoartspace and The Nature Conservancy
Human/Nature’s fifth installment is presented in conjunction with The Nature Conservancy and features the artist Eve Mosher in discussion with climate change scientist David Van Luven and Patricia Watts. Mosher’s yearlong public art project HighWaterLine involved the artist marking ten-feet above sea level along the New York waterfront with a chalk line to bring attention to the dangers of flooding brought on by climate change. Join us as we discuss the implications of climate change on New York City’s landscape and community – and explore how art can connect human beings with the awareness of larger environmental issues. A reception will follow the panel discussion.
POSTER
EXHIBITION SUPPORT
General exhibition support provided by Carnegie Corporation, Jerome
Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Starry Night Fund at
The Tides Foundation, Exit Art’s Board of Trustees and our members.
Public programs support provided by The New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Exit Art is located at 475 Tenth Avenue at 36th Street. Exit Art is open each Tuesday through Thursday, 10 am – 6 pm; and LATE Friday, 10 am – 8 pm AND Saturday, noon – 8 pm Closed Sunday and Monday. There is a suggested donation of $5. For more information call 212-966-7745.
Ecoartspace is one of the leading international ecoart organizations established as a non-profit in 1999. Providing a platform for artists addressing environmental issues, Ecoartspace promotes a diverse range of artworks that are participatory, collaborative, interdisciplinary and educational. Their philosophy embodies a broader concept of art in its relationship to the world and seeks to connect human beings aesthetically with the awareness of larger ecological systems. For more information, visit http://www.ecoartspace.org .
CONCURRENT WITH EPA
UNLEARNING TOLERANCE: art changing attitudes toward the environment
United Nations Headquarters
Thursday, May 8, 2008
SESSION 1: 10-12:30
Confronting Environmental Intolerance: Art, Action and Human Security
Moderator: Kiyotaka Akasaka, UN Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information
SESSION 2: 3-5:30
Art for Change: Vehicles for Environmental Action
Moderator: Eric Falt, Director, Outreach Division, United Nations Department of Public Information
Artist Panelists: Noor Al-Bastaki, El Anatsui, Subhankar Banerjee, Catherine Chalmers, Ichi Ikeda, Philippe Pastor and Cecilia Paredes
Expert Panelists: Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity,
Elisabeth Guilbaud-Cox, Deputy Director, United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office North America
Natural World Museum International Art Exhibition
Art, Attitudes & Environment
United Nations Visitors Lobby
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
May 2 - May 31, 2008
10am - 5pm
About the Exhibit:
Unlearning Intolerance: Art, Attitudes & Environment, is directly tied to the seminar, Unlearning Intolerance: Art Changing Attitudes Towards the Environment. The exhibition compliments and expands upon the ideologies presented
at the seminar, such as the connections between art, action and human security, or art as vehicles for environmental action. Seven artists representing six global regions present their art to generate dialogue as an alternative approach in strengthening community engagement in conservation and preservation.
RSVP for the Seminar: unchronicle@un.org Tel: 917 367 9326/3030
United Nations Headquarters - First Avenue at 46th Street, New York, NY 10017
www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/tolerance
For more information please visit www.naturalworldmuseum.org
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