Events: E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions)
Mar 19th, 2008 by Jervey
Exit Art is pleased to announce the opening of E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions), the first project of S.E.A, a large-scale program dealing with current environmental concerns and the way artists respond to them. E.P.A is a group exhibition surveying recent performance work from around the world that addresses current environmental crises. The exhibition will consist of videos, photographs, texts, related ephemera and a film program documenting recent performances. For this opening project we have invited curator, Amy Lipton, and founder/co-curator Patricia Watts of ecoartspace, a leading international environmental arts organization, to collaborate with Exit Art on the organization and presentation of this material. E.P.A. will include performance documentation from more than 30 international artists. These works, created in the public sphere, draw attention to and engage the public in a dialogue about issues such as climate change, watersheds, urbanization and, ultimately, human survival. E.P.A. will set the precedence for future exhibitions of S.E.A. dealing with environmental issues including The End of Oil, about the global oil crisis and alternative energy, and Consume, about food production, agricultural and sustainable living practices. An exhibition of historical social-environmental art works is also planned to place this work in context. [Exit Art]
We’re pretty excited about this whole program, and particularly the panel discussion featuring our good friend Eve Mosher on the 26th. Details of that below the hop. Wednesday, March 26, 7pm
HUMAN/NATURE:
Panel discussion with:
Eve Mosher, artist
David Van Luven, climate change scientist and Hudson River program director at
The Nature Conservancy
Moderator:
Patricia Watts, founder and co-curator of ecoartspace
Presented in collaboration with ecoartspace and The Nature Conservancy
Human/Nature’s fifth installment is presented in conjunction with The Nature Conservancy and features the artist Eve Mosher in discussion with climate change scientist David Van Luven and Patricia Watts. Mosher’s yearlong public art project HighWaterLine involved the artist marking ten-feet above sea level along the New York waterfront with a chalk line to bring attention to the dangers of flooding brought on by climate change. Join us as we discuss the implications of climate change on New York City’s landscape and community – and explore how art can connect human beings with the awareness of larger environmental issues. A reception will follow the panel discussion.