1-800-ECOSFEAR
Go here to hear a prerecorded message about rescuing small animals. It was a Bill Burns work at the ICA. It’s truncated at the end so who knows what happened. http://www.safetygearforsmallanimals.com/ecosfear.html#
A Duck For Mr Darwin
Evolutionary Thinking & The Struggle To Exist Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art 10 April – 20 September 2009
A Duck for Mr. Darwin is a group exhibition of contemporary artists exploring evolutionary thinking and the Theory of Natural Selection. The exhibition focuses on the legacy of Charles Darwin’s ideas and is informed by the spirit of experimentation which was so distinctive to the time in which he lived.
The exhibition title references the story of an exchange of letters between the young naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin. In 1857 Wallace was to send Darwin a specimen – a domestic duck from the island of Lombok. Just a year later he would send a short twenty page essay on species variation. This correspondence proved to be an important catalyst precipitating the publishing of Darwin’s monumental theory – the Origin of Species in 1859.
It features the work of Charles Avery, Marcus Coates, Dorothy Cross, Mark Dion, Andrew Dodds, Mark Fairnington, Ben Jeans Houghton, Tania Kovats, Conrad Shawcross
Not much information on actual works. Buy me the book someone.
Mark Dion The desk of a tropical ecologist (Guyana field trip: Semang Creek) 1999
http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/present/ExhibitionDetail.php?exhibID=123
Justin Gibbens, “Paradise nebulosa”
This is from a group exhibition called flight
Justin Gibbens, “Paradise nebulosa,” 2009. Watercolour, colored pencil, gouache on paper, 64 x 26 inches. At G. Gibson Gallery
create your own continuum of cute
This work by Nina Katchadourian (I have reproduced a screen grab below) invites you to make a scale from cutest to ugliest animal by shifting around these image tiles. You can see that there are opposing parties working here trying to confirm or undermine mainstream notions of cute.
Which animal do you most identify with? Would you include this animal in your digital self portrait (my project 2)?
Go to http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/montage/katchadourian/continuum.php and have a go
The Animal Gaze 2010 Symposium & Exhibition
The success of The Animal Gaze encouraged London Met to set up a series of associated events around animals and art today. These will be part of an ongoing programme under the banner of Cass Contemporary Arts (CASSCA)…CASSCA announces another symposium on animal/human studies and contemporary art at Sir John Cass in October 2010 (final dates to be announced). Again, the event will be developed from practice-led university research in fine art. We welcome practising artists in particular, and participation from all disciplines and from varying research approaches in general, both scholarly and practice-led. We invite proposals for papers, presentations, dialogues, showings, interventions, performances and workshops in all formats. DEADLINE: March 31st, 2010 (notice of acceptance to be made by May 30th, 2010). Please send proposals and abstracts of no more than 300 words to Rosemarie McGoldrick at London Met.
The Animal Gaze exhibition
http://www.snaebjornsdottirwilson.com/nanoq.php
The Animal Gaze: Contemporary Art & Animal/Human Studies was a two day symposium (Nov 20-21, 2008) and exhibition (Nov 18-Dec 12, 2008) organised and hosted by London Metropolitan University at the Sir John Cass Department of Art Media and Design in Whitechapel, London (UK). The exhibition tours to Plymouth and Exeter in 2009. http://www.animalgaze.org/
I am trying to get hold of the catalogue.
Peter Farmer exhibition at Goddard de Fiddes
Emerging Nyoongar artist, Peter Farmer, makes monochromatic blue paintings which reflect the beauty of the Blue Wren found in the south-west of Western Australia. Peter’s paintings evoke the deep history and relationship of his people to their country and its fauna. His Blue Wren totem comes from his great-grandmother via his father, Peter Farmer Snr. who grew up in the bush north of Esperance.
http://www.goddarddefiddes.com.au
13.2.09 – 7.3.09
GODDARD de FIDDES GALLERY
31 MALCOLM STREET WEST PERTH 6005 WA
PH. 08 9324 2460 FAX 08 92261353
OPENING HOURS: WED. – FRI. 12 – 6 pm SAT. 2 – 5 pm
GERDA STEINER & JÖRG LENZLINGER The Water Hole
Exhibition at ACCA http://www.accaonline.org.au/Current
GERDA STEINER & JÖRG LENZLINGER
The Water Hole
23 December 2008 – 1 March 2009
Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger have created an ecological fantasy-world in ACCA’s main gallery. The pair, who have collaborated since 1997, bring together made and found objects to create extravagant, magical installations that are full of allegory and beauty.
Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger
Jardin de Lune (Moon Garden), 2007-08
Installation
Courtesy the artists
