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

Mon Feb 15 00:47:05 UTC 2010

cheers forgot it was closed
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 15 Feb 2010, at 00:00, Bob wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> Share this announcement on:  Facebook | Delicious | Twitter
>>>
>>> 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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