Hi Patrick,
>"I pledge to never Paint in my pursuit....."
I suspect, your suggestion saying 'never to paint' in your pursuits, is
from a more personal place rather than relating to global, environmental
concerns. Although, I can also imagine that you may also consider it to
be a global issue ;-)
marc
I was thinking along the lines of wanting that art related
travel too!
How about "I pledge to never Paint in my pursuit....."
patrick
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Michael Szpakowski
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Ruth
pretty much my every breath is dedicated to trying to blag
an art
related trip outside Europe so I don't think I can do this one,
or at
least not until I've pulled that off. However I am happy to
promise
*never, ever* to drive anywhere in pursuit of my art...
warmest wishes
michael
--- On Sun, 4/12/09, Ruth Catlow
<[email protected]> wrote:
From: Ruth Catlow <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] We won't fly for art : Take the
Pledge
To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity"
<[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 6:07 PM
Thanks Karen and Dimos for joining us so quickly and for
setting
longer pledge deadlines; )
For those who'd like to join us but have tickets already
booked for
art-flights before 26th April, check out the comments:-
- Karen's pledge has a 10th May as its deadline
http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart2
- Dimos Dimitriou has 15th May
http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart3
Cheers
Ruth
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From: Ruth Catlow <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected], NetBehaviour for
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To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
<[email protected]>
Subject: [NetBehaviour] We won't fly for art : Take the
Pledge
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:16:35 +0100
We won't fly for art for six months
but only if 6 others will do the same AND replicate this
pledge by
26th April 2009
http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart
- Marc and Ruth
We will not take an aeroplane for the sake of art. For the
next 6
months we will find other ways to visit and participate in
exhibitions,
fairs, conferences, meetings, residencies. We will not fly for
inspiration, nor to appreciate, buy or sell art.
But only if 6 others will do the same AND replicate this
pledge.
This pledge is designed for exponential growth so if you
persuade
another 6 people to do the same, within a year you could be one
of
millions of people changing the way the artworld works. So sign
up,
create a replica pledge and share your own experiences,
observations and
arguments towards reducing art flights. Post a link to it in the
comment
box so others can find their way to it.
This is a public art experiment in the de-escalation of
carbon-fuelled, high altitude, high-velocity, global art
careering. For
six months we choose to cover less physical distance, move more
slowly
between destinations, to look futureward with more attention to
the view
from the ground and the network, for ways to connect with others
around
the world.
Who can sign up to this pledge? Any individual involved in
the arts:
artist (in the broadest sense), curator, art administrator, art
appreciator, gallerist, art critic, art historian, art academic,
art
technician, art security, art transporter etc. Whether you
currently fly
for art 50 times a year or never, your engagement will change
things by
making your position in the artworld visible and by offering an
alternative perspective. If you work with others you may need
to
completely revise your schedules and budgets and lobby for the
right not
to fly.
This is to light the blue touch paper of Gustave Metzger's
Reduce
Art Flights campaign using the generative and viral capabilities
of
social networks. We want to know more about the impact of
air-flight on
the artworld (and beyond). We intuit that abstaining from air
flight
will motivate and enable people (with more time, money, energy
and
attention) to relate differently to their own local cultures and
to
connect more imaginatively to other cultures.
Inspirations and Observations
Artwork- 'Reduce Art Flights' by Gustave Metzger, reviewed
here
http://tinyurl.com/cnv44r
Sustainable Development- Social science on the environmental
impact
of economic growth
'Why Politicians Dare Not Limit Economic Growth' by Tim
Jackson
http://tinyurl.com/6784zw
Investigative Journalism - What can we do to stop climate
change?
Heat (2006) by George Monbiot, summarised and reviewed here
http://tinyurl.com/devyax
Monbiot's Guardian blog http://tinyurl.com/dcew6o
Plane Stupid Campaign- 'bringing the aviation industry down
to earth'
http://www.planestupid.com/
More Art and Ecology Links-
http://delicious.com/ruthc/ecology+art
DIWOlogue- http://diwologue.net/blog/?p=38
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