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August 26, 2005

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Ecology: Everyone's Business: Invitation to Submit Ideas

Artlink Magazine: 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
artlinkmag[at]webmedia.com.au
www.artlink.com.au
tel (08) 8356 8511
363 Esplanade
Henley Beach
South Australia 5022
Artlink: the quarterly that links art & society

Posted by jo at August 26, 2005 07:08 AM

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