INTRODUCTION WHEN ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES THROUGH artistic practice, contemporary artists often find themselves in the role of educator, leader and performer. Leading by example, they go out in the world and create works that remediate or revision sites...
SISH-KEBAP, Eden Ünlüata, Installation 2010 EDITOR'S NOTE In 2010 artists Nanette Yannuzzi and Arzu Ozkal brought ecoart by thirteen contemporary Turkish activist artists to America. The collaborative exhibit-- RELIEF VALVE/SUBAP, was installed in a...
Editor's Note WEAD honors Wu Mali as Featured Artist for Issue #4. For twenty plus years, she has worked throughout Taiwan to disseminate awareness of community based feminist and environmental art. A quintessential multi-tasker, Mali wears...
I. PROLOGUE PART 1. OCTOBER 2011 THREE WOMEN won the Nobel Peace Prize: In Yemen Tawakkol Karman founded Women Journalists Without Chains. She led sit-ins and street protests demanding press freedom and human rights for marginalized groups. Her...
ABOUT LILY YEH BORN IN CHINA IN 1939, LILY YEH CAME TO the United States in the early 1960s and attended the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate school of Fine Arts. A very successful painter, she eventually became a professor at Philadelphia's University of the...
INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND: 'EDEN3' IS THE TITLE OF A five-year research initiative, with artists and musicians working with technologists and scientists to reveal the biogenic interaction of trees with the changing atmospheric chemistry and climate of cities. The intent...
ABOUT ELINA CHAUVET ELINA HAS EARNED NUMEROUS AWARDS, including two at the Biennale Noroeste and a grant from the Culture and Arts Commission of Sinaloa for the 2006-2007 edition of her project the Reality of Realities. In the United States, she created...
INTRODUCTION THE DISPERSAL PROJECT USES THE CONCEPTUAL model of dispersal in botany to examine aspects of contemporary art and culture. Its essential character is focused on connections between science, art practices and social relations. At the core of the...
EDITOR'S NOTE PART I IS THE FIRST OF THREE VIEWS on contemporary emerging ecoart in Taiwan. Jane Ingram Allen is an American ecoartist, curator, and festival organizer who lives and works in Taiwan. She arrived there in January 2004 as a Fulbright Scholar. Part I is...
EDITOR'S NOTE Here are two complex reports and a postscript from NASHIRA - a nascent utopian collective eco-village and farm for displaced women who are heads of families. Integral are art projects that hope to empower women and children to envision and create...
I. A BEGINNING IN KERALA IT IS OCTOBER 2008 AND I AM THE SOLE woman in a group of ten accomplished artists and art students in the backwaters of Kerala in the south of India. I do not speak the Malayalam language. Everyone knows English, yet we...
AUTHOR'S NOTE From the exhibition catalogue, Going Green, sponsored by the Taipei Cultural Center, New York City, and funded by the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan. The exhibition opened in New York on July 9, 2010, at Queens Botanical Garden (Taipei Economic and...
THIS ESSAY IS TAKEN FROM A KEYNOTE given at a WEAD conference in 2001 following 9/11 and updated now, a decade later. I. AFFIRMING AND RENEWING VALUES WITHIN OUR WORK AS ARTISTS AND ACTIVISTS it seems even more critical to...
In this third issue, we're still crossing into unknown editorial territory. Producing an entirely new magazine is exciting and obsessive. We hope to stay flexible, though, and open to feedback (send ideas, essay and theme proposals), but we're dedicated to WEAD's...
I. FINDING HOME IN THE FIRST PART OF THIS TWO PART EXPLORATION OF Ecological Art in Canada, I gave an overview of the context in which much of such art is practiced, and explored some works and practices. In this second part, I have chosen to expand on...
ENVIRONMENTAL ART IS A GROWING MOVEMENT IN IRAN that appeals to the younger generation. Although sometimes economic, political, social and religious issues are reflected in their works, these artists focus mostly on urgent environmental issues. It is not...
'pool explores reveals and celebrates the origins of the city that forgot its namesake. 'pool encourages discussion about the past in order to influence the future. Everyone is welcome to join in. ...
DURING THE LAST TWO DECADES I HAVE CREATED and facilitated community-based art projects in countries affected by wars, violence and state terror. The participants of these collaborative and communal projects are civilians who suffered violations of human...
I. PROLOG I HAVE BEEN CREATING ENVIRONMENTAL ART PROJECTS for more than twenty-five years. I invite fellow artists to work together and with me. These projects enhance the quality of art by engaging issues, contexts, and history. They also demand...
I. WHEN THE ISSUE IS SURVIVAL MY INTEREST IN WATER AS AN ESSENTIAL RESOURCE and as a transformational material - from solid to liquid to vapor - has been longstanding. My 1982 United Nations project, titled Waters of the Nations/Messages from the...