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: artists Betty Beaumont, Peter Fend, and Marjetica Potrc.
if the attachment is garbled, click on: http://cristine.org/events/sustainability.html 5:30 p.m. Reception (sponsored by the Consulate General of Slovenia) 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m Symposium Hope to see you there! ===== best regards, cristine wang email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: 917.318.0081 http://cristine.org›Title: For Immediate Release
New Museum
Zenith Media 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. Reception
(sponsored by the Consulate General of Slovenia)
6:00pm-7:30pm Symposium
Panelists: Betty Beaumont, Peter Fend & Marjetica Potrc
Moderated & Organized by: Cristine Wang in collaboration with Anne Barlow
The New Museum Zenith Media 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."
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. Potrcâs 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, Potrcâs ãliving structures·
show how the inhabitants of favelas and townships produce a threatening
autonomy that challenges the planned structure of a city.ä
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cristine Wang
tel: 917.318.0081
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
