[spectre] Artlink magazine * December 2005 issue * Invitation to submit ideas

[EAF Director]

Artlink magazine * December 2005 issue * Invitation to submit ideas

Ecology: everyone's business

Art and environment, waste and obsolescence, climate change, global 
warming/wildfires, water/drought, air/pollution and earth/toxicity, 
now form a subject area for a distinct subgroup of artists around the 
world. Galleries, websites and many exhibitions are focusing on this 
work in various ways.

Attitudes are slowly shifting at government level and in the general 
populace towards a less mechanistic, more humanistic view of the 
world. Artists, traditionally identified as they are with alternative 
approaches to living, are now able to collaborate more credibly and 
successfully with many different sectors to make art on environmental 
themes.

These sectors include science, technology, farming, water resources, 
recycling industries, health etc. A little of this work is appearing 
in the mainstream culture of international biennales and triennials, 
often in moving image works. Other contexts include recurrent 
'artists in nature' events where artists work with communities and in 
various habitats around the world.

Artists whose work is addressing problems of or solutions for the 
state of the world's ecology are invited to email us as soon as 
possible with details of their work. This work is not limited by any 
particular category or mode. We are looking for inventive, rigorous 
and richly layered ideas of all kinds. Work which reflects a sense of 
urgency about helping the world to shift gear towards human beings 
living in a more sustainable way are of great interest.

Other areas to be canvassed in this issue include the ecological 
footprint of an artist, and/or of the arts sector as a whole, and the 
state of eco-building and architecture today.

Authors who are interested in publishing are invited to put forward 
proposals for essays by 25 August but the sooner the better! (The 
text deadline for selected articles will be 30 September 2005.)

Author fees are AUD$250 per 1000 words.

Ecology: Everyone's Business will be launched in early December 2005.


Stephanie Britton
Executive Editor
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South Australia 5022
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