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. ...
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 their own...
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 Malayalam. Everyone knows English, yet we are shy, and my accent...
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...
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 affirm and renew our values...
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, essays, 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. LIVERPOOL'S NAMESAKE, THE...
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 research often...
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 World, was in...
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 is the name...
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 this,...
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 the circumstances of living. But in the lack of a long-term...
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 formally 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 Conference in San Rafael, California (www.bioneers.org). Guest moderator Beverly Naidus has invited an...