Check out the website and project for What is missing? by Maya Lin http://www.whatismissing.net/ (also see details on her website http://www.mayalin.com/). I’m always a little dubious about mournful environmental art but the website is very moving in an informational sort of way.
I have been posting the mail art piece compose/decompose to the Animals, people a shared environment exhibition as part of the Australian Animal Study Group 2011 conference exhibition at the POP Gallery and QCA Project Space in Brisbane. There are 20 cards in all and the work is a tribute to the Molluskian Hermaphrohood. …
Call for Artworks: Australian Animal Studies Group & Queensland College of Art Exhibition and Online Survey of Human Animal Relations Artists 1. Exhibition: Animals, People – a shared environment. Brisbane, July 2011 As part of their fourth conference, the Australian Animal Studies Group is joining with the Queensland College of Art to hold an …
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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#
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …