Welcome to WEAD Magazine's second issue. Evidenced by the number of essay proposals received, our audience is growing. We were delighted to be able to select and publish here an especially strong, diverse group of writers covering eco and social justice art in both...
I STARTED OUT AS A POET BUT gave up poetry for the visual expression when I lost my language. I realized that art had to change in a world drastically changing, when humanity was facing major decisions in order to survive on the planet while...
I. HISTORY Geumgang Nature Art Biennale WAS FIRST HELD IN 2004 and again in 2006 and 2008. This year, 2010, it is titled Nature and Peace. Yatoo was founded almost 30 years ago in Gongju, in the Chungnam Province, 150 km south-west of Seoul. Yatoo...
I. WATER IS MY TEACHER ALL ECOLOGIES ARE RELATIONAL. ALL LIFE FUNCTIONS use basically the same elements -- air, water, earth, and energy in many forms. Our connective tissue is so complex that we understand only a fraction of it, but in contradiction to...
We forget that in all cultures there exist philosophies, beliefs, myths, stories, and rituals, related to the earth as a cosmic center/ecology/ people's relationship with their environment, which affects circumstances of living. But in the lack of a long-term vision...
University of the Trees (www.universityofthetrees.org) is one of the current long-term social sculpture projects linked to the new Social Sculpture Association and to the Social Sculpture Research Unit (SSRU) at Oxford Brookes. The SSRU has a focus on doctoral...
The Israeli Forum for Ecological Art, is the only association of artists and scientists that I know of, in the world, which acts as a formal registered group, within an NGO state umbrella, to create an environmental change through art. Celebrating the tenth year of...
[Editor's Note: Teaching Art as a Subversive Activity: Cultural Democracy Meets Eco-art is the title of a WEAD sponsored ecoart panel for the October 2010 Bioneers 'visionaries' Conference in San Rafael, California, (www.bioneers.org). Guest moderator Beverly Naidus...
I. FRAMING THE PRACTICE When discussing Canadian works on and about the land I find it valuable to bring forward the special cultural context in which these works arise. Even if an artist does not choose to consciously engage place histories in their work, these...
In New York in the 1970s, widespread desire for anti-traditional forms of behavior and art, surging feminist solidarity, and nascent environmentalism moved innovative women sculptors who worked in nature into a new presence in the art world. Not since Henry James's...
Feminist ideas then & now are linked/changed expanded/contracted? How things have changed in ecoart since that panel in 1999....or what internet and other extended forms of communication since then have changed the field. In 1999, at the dawn of the conservative...
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California. April 1, 2009-September 27, 2009 ARTISTS: Mark Dion, Ann Hamilton, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Marcos Ramirez Erre, Rigo 23, Dario Robleto, Diana Thater, Xu Bing. CAN ARTISTS INSPIRE CONSERVATION? CAN CONSERVATION INSPIRE ARTISTS?...
Welcome to our first issue. It took three years to think about, design, and create this website. With luck, the next issue will come easier and faster. BUILDING COMMUNITIES After 15 years of publishing the artists' Directory, we're pushing edges to publish exclusively...