[ELECTRON] Dan, Mon 15th Feb 2pm - 8pm

[Document]

Hi Dan,

I notice that this booking is "waiting for approval" - is it going  
ahead as I was going to book from 5.30pm - 7pm for a document staff  
meeting. Let me know

Cheers
Paula Larkin
Coordinator / Development Worker
Document Festival

tel: 00 44 141 357 4212
m: 07765396226
www.docfilmfest.org.uk

Document 8 - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
Glasgow, October 2010.



On 14 Feb 2010, at 19:50, Simon Yuill wrote:

> Aarhus Art Building,
> Centre for Contemporary Art
>
>
> 	
> 	OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS
>
> IMAGINE
> Towards an eco-aesthetic, 2011
> The Aarhus Art Building,
> Centre for Contemporary Art, Denmark
>
> Artists and curators are
> hereby invited to submit
> proposals for 2011.
>
> Deadline March 15
>
> http://www.aarhuskunstbygning.dk
>
>
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>
> Only when people are in a position to use their own creative  
> potentials,
> which can be enhanced by an artistic imagination, will a change occur
> [....] Art can and should strive for an alternative that is not only
> aesthetically affirmative and productive but is also beneficial to all
> forms of life on our planet.
> Rasheed Araeen: Ecoaesthetics. A Manifesto for the Twenty-First  
> Century
>
> In the autumn of 2009, Rasheed Araeen, editor of the respected
> periodical on art and culture Third Text, launched a frontal attack on
> the modern ego and the recuperation of the avant-garde. Instead of the
> continued rigid production of objects and a stubborn anchoring in art
> institutions, Araeen pleads for a collective artistic imagination  
> as the
> only road towards "[…] rivers and lakes of clean water, collective  
> farms
> and the planting of trees all over the world."
>
> From what is perhaps a slightly one-track masculine perspective,
> Araeen's manifesto examines earlier failed attempts to step down from
> the pedestal of the bourgeoisie in favour of a collective  
> commitment to
> our surroundings and the environment. Nevertheless, the notion of  
> art as
> a positive, giving alternative unhampered by the restraints of either
> representation or negation is relevant in a new decade in a new  
> millennium.
>
> In trying to conceive of such an alternative it seems a reasonable  
> first
> step to take a closer look at alliances between art and sustainable
> development For at the roots of the idea of sustainability lie an
> ethical imperative and a persistent struggle against inequality –
> parameters that seem indispensable today if we actually want to  
> imagine
> change and alternatives.
>
> The notion of sustainability first aroused political attention in the
> 1970s, although it can also be traced back to the 1960s in the  
> shape of
> various grass-roots movements. In 1972 the UN Conference on the Human
> Environment was held in Stockholm – this was the first of its kind,  
> and
> at the same time the first transnational forum that even considered  
> the
> environment and society as a single, interconnected issue.
>
> The conference was strongly influenced by the book Limits to Growth
> published by the global think tank Club of Rome the same year, in  
> which
> the problems of exponential growth vis-à-vis the limited resources of
> the Earth were outlined. The book inspired thoughts about the  
> limits of
> growth in terms not only of the human population but also of economic
> factors. This realization that the Earth was not an inexhaustible
> storehouse of resources contributed to the development of a notion of
> sustainability that takes the future generations of the Earth into  
> account.
>
> The correlation between ecological and social issues is a fundamental
> aspect of thinking about sustainability, and consequently also  
> involves
> concepts like responsibility and ethics. Similarly, in various  
> movements
> that have consistently had sustainability as a central point of
> reference since the 1970s, for instance Social Ecology and  
> Ecofeminism,
> sustainability is inextricably bound up with an astute critique of the
> dominant hierarchical structures.
>
> The notion of sustainability thus includes the consideration of social
> structures, subjection and domination, ethics and economics on an  
> equal
> footing with consideration of the environment and the ecology. If art
> today is to have the above-mentioned positive starting point, it needs
> to think about this complex apparatus as a whole and imagine an
> alternative. Only thus can we move towards an art that is healing and
> affirmative – and thus towards an eco-aesthetic in the new millennium.
>
> With this background the Aarhus Art Building is hereby issuing an Open
> Call for Proposals for 2011. We welcome suggestions for group
> exhibitions, solo exhibitions and workshops as well as suggestions for
> projects in public space. Guidelines can be found at
> www.aarhuskunstbygning.dk. The guidelines must be followed in the
> application to make it eligible for consideration.
>
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