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

Mon Feb 15 00:00:34 UTC 2010

Hi Paula
It was me that booked that - didn't realise I put it on appro. I have 
emailed to ask. I would go ahead anyway the place is closed Monday I'm sure 
you could use the cafe or someplace if it comes to it. Ch Bob

Document wrote:
> 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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