Our new brochure for Eco-Arts Salons is heading to the printers as we speak – but you can read and, if you like, print your own – right now.
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The Eco-Arts 2012 Brochure is Out!
March 22, 2012 – 8:14 am
Behind Open Doors Arts Collective
March 19, 2012 – 10:17 am
Biography
Behind Open Doors is a collective of performers, dancers and scholars of public space and the urban environment, founded in 2004. They are interested in exploring and questioning urban spaces and our environment through performance, improvisation and film. From hosting “hops” (where they would play with improvisation in different places in the city and where anyone of any ability was welcome) to more formal, interdisciplinary performances such as “Pedestrian Asylum” on the pedestrian overpass in Strathcona, they have been active in urban spaces and engaging the community for nearly eight years.
Find out more about this collective on their blog at http://behindopendoorsartscollective.blogspot.ca/
Description of the Presentation
For the Eco Arts Salon, BODAC will bring dance (both in the social and performance sense) into the outside world. This confronts the idea that wilderness or nature is something separate from our everyday world, something outside the city. Our separation from the environment and nature, and from our responsibility of how we live in our urban environment will be questioned through a participatory performance. BODAC will stress the notion that the city is part of the greater environment (this idea comes from William Cronon’s article, The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature).
The event will include all participants; everyone is a performer. The location will be outside the Roundhouse Community Art and Recreation Centre, on the wooden rotunda area and onto the seawall. After giving instructions on what they call “the hop”, they will do a walk-through of the improvisation score/directions before the group is involved. Please dress for the weather as the group will be outdoors for 45 minutes. An indoor presentation and discussion period will follow the outdoor participatory performance.
Click here to register for this exciting free event!
Bruce Voyce
January 23, 2012 – 5:08 pm
Biography
Visual arts and ecology have been an integral part of my life since childhood. I recognized the transformative power of art when I began sculpting during an extended stay in the hospital. Later my driftwood sculptures were inspired as a collaboration with nature while I was tree planting and living in the wilderness. Now, my artistic practice has evolved to embrace public art and the creation of works of art that enrich our common spaces. By incorporating living plant systems into artwork, the medium becomes the message. Through repurposing post consumer material I engage the urban landscape and raise awareness about our environmental impact.
I feel that sculpture can interconnect the realms of art, science, nature and humanity. Nature gently reclaims technology; the landscape is integrated with the art, and the art with the land.
Description of the Presentation
Why should ecology influence artwork? What is the message in the medium? How can environmental artwork integrate technology? Where can we go from here?
These are intriguing factors to consider when we look at environmental art and it’s context. Once I worked with driftwood and stone. Now I live where plastic bottles are the driftwood of the urban environment. There is a need to integrate ecology and technology and art is an engaging way of exploring this possibility. From plants to plastics, hybrid forms can interconnect our minds with environment.
Our Spring 2012 Artists Have Been Selected!
January 21, 2012 – 12:18 pm
After a flurry of submissions, we are excited to announce that our artist presenters for the 2012 Eco-Arts Salons have now been selected. Our diverse line up for the season will include:
FEBRUARY
Bruce Voyce, A Sculptor of Public Artworks who incorporates plant matter and recycled materials into his large objects. He has participated in the Burnaby Eco-Sculptures;
MARCH
Behind Open Doors Art Collective, A group of Performance Artists & scholars of public space who confront the separation of wilderness and the urban environment through direct physical engagements;
APRIL
Cornelia Hoogland, Poet & Professor at the University of Western Ontario. She incorporates an understanding of place and wild places into her work;
MAY
Chloe Bennett, A Landscape Architecture student who focuses on “Habit-art”, sculptural habitat for pollinators;
JUNE
J Peachy, A socially-engaged painter who has recently been named Artist-in-Residence for the Burrard Inlet Marine enhancement Society;
JUNE
Eco-Arts Salons are events that bring those active in creating environmental art together with interested community members, representatives of environmental/community groups interested in using art to advance their social or environmental goals. These events serve as a venue for dialogue and for people from a variety of backgrounds to connect professionally & socially. The salons will be scheduled on the 4th Wednesday of each month, from February- June.
To register for these free events please go here.
Thank you to the Roundhouse for partnering with us for this project.
Thank you to the City of Vancouver and the BC Arts Council for funding for our Environmental Arts Program.
Eco-Arts Salons January to June, 2012
December 13, 2011 – 12:37 pm
Meet and Greet in January
We plan to kick off our 2012 series with a meet-and-greet social at the Roundhouse. Pitch your projects. Bring your friends. A mix of artists, environmentalists, actists, educators, students– and the rest of us!
Save the date: Wed. Jan. 25 7-9pm. More details coming later.
Click here to register and then you’ll get updates delivered to your inbox.
Thank you to the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre for partnering with us to present this series and to the City of Vancou
ver and BC Arts Council for funding support for our Community Environmental Arts Program.
 Calling all Community-based Eco-Artists!
We are currently booking the Eco Arts Salons for February-June 2012. These monthly evening presentations showcase your work to the public with opportunities for feedback, networking and community participation. The objective of these salons is to create a space for stimulating dialogue around questions such as “What does it mean to be an environmental artist?” and “What is the potential for community engaged environmental art in Vancouver?” Each presenter, professional or project-based, is also asked to facilitate a hands-on component as part of their salon which could involve group writing, making, musical components, etc.These events are held on the 4th Wednesday of each month at the Roundhouse Community Art and Recreation Centre from 7-9pm. If your art practice engages with ideas of community-building and centers on the environment, we’d like to see your work at our Salons. We will be selecting 5 artists or collaborative groups to feature in the upcoming Salons. Artists receive a $200 honorarium for the presentation. Requirements
Deadline Submit your suggestions for an Eco Arts Salon to eco-arts@cacv.ca no later than Friday, January 6, 2012.
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