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RESEARCH ARCHIVE

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PASMUR RACHUIKO, FERAL FORAGE

Pasmur Rachuiko's online portfolio

Feral Forage is a performative practice that initially developed out of a search for alternative sources of food. This post-apocalyptic game has become a response to unsettling changes and an unstable economic situation.

EL ANATSUI

October Gallery

El Anatsui has addressed a vast range of social, political and historical concerns, and embraced an equally diverse range of media and processes. Making use of tools as diverse as chainsaws, welding torches and power tools as well as developing a range of processes such as the intricate and meditative 'sewing' process of his later work...

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JOSEPH BEUYS, 1921 - 1986

Walker Art Centre

In all its forms, his work is dense and highly allusive and draws on much of the accumulated knowledge of Western civilization, including history, religion, natural sciences, economic theory, and myth. A charismatic teacher, Beuys was mentor to a generation of younger artists who were inspired by his passionate fusion of art, life, and activism.

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ALEXANDRE DANG: SOLAR FLOWERS

Vimeo link of Alexandre Dang's Solar Flowers

With us since our founding, Max Johnson is one of our veteran team members. They bring their years of experience and skills to the forefront in helping our organization grow and succeed.

BRIGHT UGOCHUKWU EKE

Artmap

Inspired by suffering from a skin infection triggered by acid rain while living in his home country of Nigeria, Eke creates highly symbolic installations based on environmental pollution and ecological destruction, often using found objects and recycled materials (such as carelessly discarded plastic bottles).

BASIA IRLAND, ICE BOOK PROJECT

Basia Irland's online portfolio

Basia Irland's artwork focuses on international water issues, especially rivers, waterborne diseases, and water scarcity. Ice Receding/Books Reseeding emphasizes the necessity of communal effort and scientific knowledge to deal with the complex issues of climate disruption and watershed restoration by releasing book-shaped, seed-laden, ephemeral ice sculptures into rivers.

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RED EARTH, ENVIRONMENTAL ARTS GROUP

Red Earth website

Led by artists and co-directors Caitlin Easterby and Simon Pascoe Red Earth have produced work in Europe, Java, Japan and Mongolia. Projects have explored the effects of climate change and our complex relationship with geological, archaeological, ecological and cultural landscapes.

LAND ART GENERATOR INITIATIVE, RENEWABLE ENERGY CAN BE BEAUTIFUL

Land Art Generator website

The goal of the Land Art Generator is to accelerate the transition to post-carbon economies by providing models of renewable energy infrastructure that add value to public space, inspire, and educate—while providing equitable power to homes around the world.

WEAD - WOMEN ECO ARTISTS DIALOGUE

WEAD website

WEAD provide information regarding the ecoart and social justice art fields to artists, curators, writers, art and public art administrators, educators in art and ecology, cross-disciplinary professionals and others.

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MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES

Jillian Steinhauer, Hyperallergic

Best known as the artist in residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation, the septuagenarian Ukeles is having her first full retrospective, at the Queens Museum.

JOHN AKOMFRAH

Artsy

John Akomfrah’s Purple (2017) is widely considered the British artist and filmmaker’s most ambitious work to date. The immersive 6-channel video installation was filmed across 10 countries, exploring the incremental and interconnected effects of climate change on a global scale.

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ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON, THE PEO-PLE CRIED MER-CY IN THE STORM

Allison Janae Hamilton's online portfolio

The peo-ple cried mer-cy in the storm comprises a towering stack of tambourines on an island in one of Storm King’s ponds. The installation was inspired by 'Florida Storm,' a 1928 hymn written by Judge Jackson about the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, as well as accounts of the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, referenced in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

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CAI GUO-QIANG: THE NINTH WAVE

Cai Guo-Qiang's online portfolio

Fascinated by the spectacle of man-made destruction, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang devoted an entire 2014 exhibition at Shanghai’s Power Station of Art to shedding light on China’s environmental devastation. “In ancient times, people were more respectful of the environment,”...

GERALD BORGIA - WHY DO BOWERBIRDS BUILD BOWERS?

American Scientist
Vol. 83, No. 6 (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1995), pp. 542-547 (6 pages)

A research paper exploring a study to understand why bowerbirds create bowers for their mates.

JACKIE BROOKNER

Jackie Brookner's online portfolio

Jackie Brookner's work brings plant-based water remediation for parks, rivers, and wetlands together with habitat restoration, landscape sculpture, and active community collaboration. These projects demonstrate how the undervalued resources of stormwater and other polluted water can be reclaimed to create evocative public places where people can connect with the natural systems that support our lives.

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WENDY E. BRAWER - GREEN MAP

Green map website

Wendy created the first Green Map of New York City in 1992. Since then, she has published 20 interactive and printed Green Maps. Wendy initiated the global Green Map System in 1995 and continues to lead its development as it spread to 65 countries. As seen at WendyBrawer.com, she also directs a Lower East Side eco-design firm that focuses on energy, resiliency and green living.

JEANINNE KAYEMBE

Urban Creators website

Jeaninne Kayembe is a Black Queer thought leader and multi-media artist in this generation’s industries of entertainment, civic engagement, food security, and arts/environmental activism. She is also the Co-executive Director and Co-Founder of The Urban Creators.

OLAFUR ELIASSON - LONDON ICE WATCH, 2018

Naomi Rae, Artnet

Olafur Eliasson Hauls 30 Icebergs to London, Inviting the Public to Contemplate the Devastating Effects of Climate Change. Visitors can climb on, listen to, and even taste the installation as it slowly melts away.

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POPE.L - FLINT WATER, 2017

Mitchell-Innes and Nash

Chicago-based artist Pope.L, who has been making public interventionist art for over twenty years, comes to Detroit artist-run gallery What Pipeline with Flint Water, on view September 7 through October 21, 2017. Conceived by Pope.L as one Midwest city helping another, both struck by similar blight...

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XAVIER CORTADA - THE UNDERWATER HOA, 2018

Xavier Cortada's online portfolio

The Underwater HOA began in 2018 as a participatory public art project by acclaimed environmental artist, Xavier Cortada. The project aims to generate awareness on rising sea levels, and engage Floridians to take action against climate change...

EVE MOSHER - HIGHWATERLINE, BRISTOL

Eve Mosher's online portfolio

Presented by Invisible Dust in partnership with Creative Catalysts, HighWaterLine | Bristol was led by Isobel Tarr, with project support from Anna Wilson. 32 miles along the Avon and Frome highlighting the vulnerability that the region faces as climate change impacts the tidal river (the Avon has the second highest tidal range in the world – 12 meters).

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ERIN JANE NELSON

Contemporary Art Daily

Atlanta-based Erin Jane Nelson has been traveling around the American Southeast to barrier islands and coastal wetlands that are rapidly eroding and disappearing. The five Gulf States account for one-third of the nation’s oil production, 40 percent of our seafood, and 10 of America’s 15 largest shipping ports. The coastline of the American South is our countries’ provider.

HUGH HAYDEN - STRIKING NEW SCULPTURES TAKE ON THE INEQUITIES OF PUBLIC EDUCATION

Jewels Dodson

Hayden, 38, whose principal material is wood, constructed 100 school desks to create “classrooms” on four lawns throughout the park.

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ANDY HOLDEN - A NATURAL HISTORY OF NEST BUILDING', 2017

Artangel

The Bowerbird's bower is not a nest, but a stage. In the hope of attracting a mate, the male bird carefully arranges objects around the bower, guided by considerations of shape and colour. This remarkable behaviour prompted Charles Darwin to consider the bowerbird as the closest thing to an artist found in nature.

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YOUTH ART CONTEST

World Wildlife Day International

In coordination with World Wildlife Day’s theme “Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration”, this year’s art contest encourages artists to depict endangered and critically endangered wildlife within the habitats and ecosystems where they live.

REN RI

Pearl Lam Galleries

Ren Ri is an interdisciplinary research-based artist. His focuses include biology, science, mechanics, engineering, and art. He has cooperated with insects such as bees for more than a decade. He studies the self-organizing structure of eusocial insects, exploring the relationships between human beings, bees, and nature, and constructing a co-interface language through a brand-new artistic form.

PRECIOUS OKOYOMON - EARTHSEED, 2021

Coco Romack, The New York Times

Precious Okoyomon’s vast installations, which often incorporate plants as well as poetry and sculpture, celebrate the chaos of nature, and warn against its destruction.

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FRIDA KAHLO AND THE SYMBOLISM IN HER ART

Emre Kagitci, Daily Art Magazine

After periods of depression and miscarriages in her life she gave herself to pets around her. She liked to use animals as models in her artworks. Her paintings are domesticated by monkeys, hummingbirds, dogs, and cats.

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SHELTER

Steam

Experience the wild as a mother badger sheltering her cubs from harm. On their journey they get stalked by a bird of prey, encounter perils of the night, river rapids crossings, big forest fires and the looming threat of death by starvation. Food is to be found, but is there enough for everyone?

OUR TIME ON EARTH

The Barbican, The Curve

Our Time on Earth looks to transform the conversation on climate emergency. Harnessing the power of global creativity, it presents radical visions and possibilities for the future of all species.

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