The COAL Art and Environment Prize 2013 was awarded yesterday to the artist Laurent Tixador for his project Architecture Transitoire. It was chosen by a jury of personalities from the fields of contemporary art, sustainable development and the environment, from among ten nominated projects. The Coal Art and Environment Prize, whose theme this year was Adaptation, involved the participation of over 200 artists from more than 30 countries.

The winning artist: Laurent Tixador for his project Architecture Transitoire

Designing one’s habitat in a given environment starting from nothing, relying only on one’s physical strength and ingenuity, is the starting point of the new challenges that Laurent Tixador never ceases to take up with his Transitory Architectures. Whether they are established in a pasture, a disused barracks, a granite chaos or a grove, they are each time the opportunity to experiment with pre-technological situations, to engage a mode of deceleration and to put into perspective the condition of the man of the 21st century. It is the environment, whether natural or not, that defines the style of these architectures and forces the body and mind to adapt to its demands. Laurent Tixador will, thanks to the Coal Prize, continue these explorations, where experience and the ability to seize all opportunities prove to be the only necessary luggage. This process appears as a metaphor for one of the constants of humanity on a global scale: humans forge the environment according to their needs rather than adapting to it.

The Coal Prize Jury 2013

Claude d’Anthenaise, Chief Curator of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Judith Benhamou-Huet, Art Critic and Curator, Patrick degeorges, Head of Emerging and Strategic Issues at the DEB, Ministry of Ecology, David Edwards, Professor at Harvard University, uSA and Founder of the Laboratory, Jennifer Flay, Artistic Director of the FiAC, Thomas Grenon, General Director of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Raphaël Ménard, Director of prospective, Groupe Egis, Chiara Parisi, Director of cultural programs at the Monnaie de Paris, Jacques Rocher, Director of the Fondation Yves rocher, Gilles Tiberghien, Philosopher were the members of the jury for this 4th edition of the Coal Prize.

The Coal Art and Environment Award

Since 2010, the Coal Art and Environment Prize, with an endowment of 10,000 euros, rewards each year an artist’s project related to ecology. The objective is to encourage contemporary artists to take up major societal and environmental issues and to participate in the emergence of a new culture of ecology. The Coal Prize is placed under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, and the National Centre for the Plastic Arts. It is supported by the Yves Rocher Foundation, the Egis group and a partnership with Le Laboratoire, Hédonie and the New York agency.

Discover all the projects of this last edition of the Coal Prize: Catalogue Prix COAL 2013

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The COAL Art and Environment Prize will reward the commitment of contemporary artists to current environmental issues. For this fourth edition of the COAL Prize, which focuses on the theme of Adaptation, more than 200 artists from some 30 countries participated. The winning project, chosen from among ten nominated projects, will receive an award of 10,000 euros on April 2.

The ten projects nominated for the 2013 COAL Award are:

The Living Library – Digital Farm Collective/Matthew Moore (born 1976 in San Jose, California, USA)
Transitional architecture – Laurent Tixador (Born in 1965 in Colmar, France)
In praise of the outside – Liliana Motta (Born in 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Urban Farm Units – Damien Chivialle (Born in 1982 in Le Mans, France)
Contingent Movements Archive – Hanna Husberg (Born 1981 in Kangasala, Finland)
Productive structures – Nicolas Floc’h (Born in 1970 in Rennes, France)
Bakehouse Bjorvijka – Futurefarmers/Amy Franceschini (Born in 1970, in Patterson, California, USA)
The observatory of Mr. Martins – Ivana Adaime Makac (Born in 1978 in Las Flores, Argentina)
Halfway to heaven – Zhao Renhui (Born in 1983 in Singapore)
July 31 in Fiesch – Anna Katharina Scheidegger (Born in 1976 in Sumiswald, Switzerland)

The Coal Prize 2012 Jury is composed of:

Claude d’Anthenaise, Chief Curator of the Museum of Hunting and Nature
Judith Benhamou-Huet, Art critic and curator
Patrick Degeorges, Philosopher, emerging and strategic ideas at the Ministry of Ecology
David Edwards, Founder of the Laboratory
Jennifer Flay, Artistic Director of the FIAC
Thomas Grenon, Director General of the National Museum of Natural History
Raphaël Ménard, Director of Foresight, Egis Group
Chiara Parisi, Director of Cultural Programs at La Monnaie de Paris
Gaëlle Rocher, Yves Rocher Foundation
Gilles Tiberghien, Philosopher

Catalog COAL Awards 2013

The Coal Art & Environment Prize ceremony will take place on April 2 at 6:30 pm at Le Laboratoire, Paris 1st.

The COAL Prize is placed under the high patronage of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy and the National Center for Plastic Arts. It is supported by the Yves Rocher Foundation and the Egis Group. The ceremony is organized in partnership with Le Laboratoire, Hédonie and the New-York agency.

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The Coal Art and Environment Prize is awarded each year to a contemporary artist’s project on environmental issues. Its objective is to encourage artists to take up major contemporary societal and environmental issues and to participate in the emergence of a new culture of nature and ecology.

The 2013 Coal Prize is dedicated to the theme of Adaptation. It will be awarded in spring 2013 at Le Laboratoire, a private art center dedicated to research in art and science, in the presence of the artists and personalities from the fields of art and sustainable development. The winner will be chosen from among ten artists nominated in an international call for projects.

Created in 2010 by the Coal association, the Coal Art and Environment Prize, worth 10,000 euros, is placed under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy and the National Center for Plastic Arts. It is also supported by the Yves Rocher Foundation and the Egis group.

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Calendar

The closing date for the call for projects is
February 28, 2013 00:00
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The Coal Award will be presented on April 02, 2013 at the Laboratory.

Adaptation

Adaptation, a term used in biology as well as in art, consists in adjusting an entity, a representation, an individual, a system, an organization to the variables of its natural and cultural environment. On a global scale, and according to the theory of evolution by natural selection defined by Charles Darwin, the adaptive capacities of species explain the conditions of their survival or their disappearance. Climate change has affected the living conditions of many of them and led to five major mass extinctions in the past. Today, the transformation of the climate and the depletion of ecosystems are accelerating with innumerable consequences that once again pose a threat of extinction to the diversity of living beings with which our species has co-evolved for several million years.

Do we have the tools and means in our society to adapt to these profound changes? International summits result in disagreements or minimal commitments within timeframes that are incompatible with the urgency of the issues at stake, and citizens are suffering from the economic crisis, with employment and the short term as their priority. How to reconcile adaptation, anticipation, change and resilience? How can we reverse the principle that structures the relationship between Western man and his environment? By adapting it to the scale of its needs and no longer to its capacities. What are the values that will govern our energy, food, social, political and economic choices? Who has the keys to this adaptation? Ecologists, urban planners, farmers, industrialists, lawyers, artists? What role can social networks, collaborative innovation, creativity, biomimicry play in fostering adaptation? Will the exploding social inequalities create the great casting of those who will or will not be able to adapt? Will refuge areas, sanctuaries of abundance and preserved nature be the new ghettos of tomorrow’s privileged? Will they leave out the most affected countries or will they stand in solidarity, nationally and internationally, with the advancement of climate justice, global governance and social ecology?

Adaptation: this word is at the heart of contemporary thinking and of the strategies deployed by nations, cities, companies and communities to deal with global warming. It is the object of a displacement, of an appropriation, of an adaptation by the artistic creation. It is the term chosen for the COAL Art and Environment Award 2013.

Selection Committee

– Nathalie Blanc, Director of Research at the CNRS (LADYSS) in urban geography
– Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, President of the art center Le Magasin in Grenoble
– Claudio Cravero, Director of the Parco d’Arte Vivente in Turin
– Olivier Darné, Artist, winner of the COAL Art and Environment Prize 2012
– Eva Hober, Director of the Eva Hober Gallery
– Theresa von Wuthenau, Coordinator and spokesperson for Imagine 2020
Lauranne Germond, Alice Audouin, Loic Fel, Guillaume Robic and Clément Willemin founders of Coal.

The selection committee is chaired by Anne-Marie Charbonneaux.

Jury

– Claude d’Anthenaise, Chief Curator of the Museum of Hunting and Nature
– Judith Benhamou-Huet, Art critic and curator
– Patrick Degeorges, Philosopher, emerging and strategic ideas at the Ministry of Ecology
– David Edwards, Founder of the Laboratory
– Jennifer Flay, Artistic Director of the FIAC
– Thomas Grenon, Director General of the National Museum of Natural History
– Raphaël Ménard, Director of Foresight, Egis Group
– Chiara Parisi, Director of Cultural Programs at La Monnaie de Paris
– Gaëlle Rocher, Yves Rocher Foundation
– Gilles Tiberghien, Philosopher

Project selection

The selection criteria of the projects take into account the artistic value, the relevance (understanding of the stakes), the originality (capacity to propose new approaches, themes or angles of view), the pedagogy (capacity to pass on a message, to raise awareness), the social and participative approach (commitment, testimony, efficiency, societal dynamics), the eco-design and the feasibility

The Coal Prize supports artistic projects in progress or to come. Its 10,000 euro endowment does not necessarily cover the totality of the project’s production costs and must be considered as an aid to its development.

Beyond the awarding of the Coal Prize, the call for projects is also an opportunity to promote artists involved and to demonstrate the creative potential of the visual arts on the theme of the environment.

Coal wants to foster the networking of these artists with scientists and stakeholders, produces, enhances and promotes projects identified by the call for projects through exhibitions, events and commissions. The projects may be disseminated on Ressource, a national platform for arts and ecologies, with the agreement of the artists.

Application Form

The application must be made up of the following documents in a single pdf file (20MB maximum):
-A synthetic and illustrated description of the proposed project presenting its artistic dimension and its perspective with the environmental subject and the annual theme;
-A note on the technical characteristics of the project, particularly in terms of infrastructure and means of production;
-Budget estimate;
-A Curriculum Vitae and an artistic file.

Submission of files

All proposals must be submitted on the Coal server by February 28, 2013.
>>> Put your file online on the Coal server

Special conditions

By participating in this call, the authors of the projects expressly authorize the Coal Association to publish, reproduce and publicly distribute all or part of the elements of their project, for all purposes related to the promotion and communication of the Coal project, in all media, in all countries and for THE LEGAL DURATION OF COPYRIGHT. Projects submitted and not selected will remain in the archives of the Coal Association. They remain nevertheless the property of their authors.
Participation in this call for projects implies full acceptance of the above conditions.

Contact

For any additional request please write to: contact@projetcoal.fr

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The Coal Prize Art and Environment rewards each year a project by a contemporary artist involved in environmental issues. Its goals are to promote and support the vital role which art and creation play in raising awareness, supporting concrete solutions and encouraging a culture of ecology. The winner is selected out of ten short-listed by a jury of well-known specialists in art, research, ecology and sustainable development

The 2013 Coal Prize will reward entries that focus on adaptation issues.

The award of the 2013 Coal Prize will take place the ^2nd of April 2013 in Paris at Le Laboratoire, a private art center specializing in the blending of art and science.

The prize carries an award of 10 000 euros. Launched in 2010 by the French organization Coal, the coalition for art and sustainable development, the Coal Prize is supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, the French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, the National Centre of Fine Arts (CNAP) and Le Laboratoire.

Schedule

Application deadline: February 28th, 2013.
The Coal Prize will be awarded on April 2nd.

Adaptation

This word is at the heart of contemporary thought and strategies used by nations, cities, businesses, and communities in order to cope with climate change. It is the subject of a movement, of appropriation, of adaptation by artistic creation. It is the term we have selected for the 2013 COAL Art and Environment Prize.

At a global level and in relation to the theory of evolution by natural selection as defined by Darwin, the adaptation capacity of a species explains the conditions for their survival or their disappearance. Climate change has affected the lives of many species in the past, resulting in five major mass extinctions. Today, climate change and the depletion of our ecosystems is accelerating with innumerable consequences which once again, pose a threat to the extinction of the diversity of the life forms with which our species has co-evolved for over millions of years.

In our society do we have the means and tools to adapt to these profound changes? International summits give birth to disagreements or commitments in minimal time. This seems to be incompatible with the urgency of the issues at stake and with society facing the economic crisis, employment and short-term are priorities. How do we reconcile adaptation, expectation, change and resilience? How do we reverse the principles that structure the relationship of western man to his environment? Adapting to the scale of his needs rather than his capabilities. What are the values that govern our resource, food, social, political and economic choices? Who are the people that hold the keys to this adaptation? Ecologists, town planners, farmers, industrialists, lawyers, artists? What role can social networking, collaborative innovation, creativity and biomimicry play in order to encourage adaptation? With social inequalities dramatically on the rise, will this create a great cast who may or may not adapt? Will safe havens, sanctuaries and abundance of unspoilt nature be the new ghettos of the privileged classes of tomorrow? Will they leave those countries most affected behind or will they be united on a national and international scale, with the progress of climate justice, world governance and social ecology?

Selection committee

Nathalie Blanc, Geographer ; Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, President of Le Magasin, Grenoble ; Claudio Cravero, Director of the Parco d’Arte Vivente, Torino ; Olivier Darné, Artist, laureate of the 2012 COAL Prize ; Eva Hober, Direcor of the gallery Eva Hober ; Theresa von Wuthenau, Coordinator and representant of Imagine 2020 ; Lauranne Germond, Alice Audouin, Loïc Fel, Guillaume Robic and Clément Willemin, founders of Coal

The selection committee is directed by Anne-Marie Charbonneaux.

Jury

Claude d’Anthenaise, Curator in chief at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature ; Judith Benhamou-Huet, Art critic and curator ; Patrick Degeorges, Philosopher, strategical and emergizing ideas at the French Ministry of Ecology ; David Edwards, Founder of Le Laboratoire ; Jennifer Flay, FIAC Artistic Director ; Thomas Grenon, General Director of the National Natural History Museum ; Raphaël Ménard, Prospective director, Egis group ; Chiara Parisi, Cultural Programs Director of La Monnaie de Paris ; Gaëlle Rocher, Yves Rocher Foundation ; Gilles Tiberghien, Philosopher.

Selection of entries

Applicants will be judged on the following criteria: artistic value, relevance (understanding of the issues), originality (ability to introduce new approaches, themes, and points of view), pedagogy (ability to get a message across, to raise awareness), social and participative approaches (engagement, testimony, efficiency, societal dynamics), eco-design, feasibility.

Entries by finalists are displayed to promote networking with relevant bodies and authorities, which could facilitate their future realization. The Coal Prize aims to encourage innovative practices. Project proposals can take any form. They have to be new or still in process but not achieved. The Coal Prize award can be a part of a more important funding of the proposed project

Application package

The application should include the following documents, assembled in a single PDF file (20Mo Max.):
-A Curriculum Vitae and a portfolio
-A summary and illustrated description of the entry, detailing its artistic aspects and its relevance to the environmental and rural issues
-A note on the technical aspects of the entry, notably in terms of construction and means of production
-An estimated budget

Submission

All proposals should be submitted to Coal server before February 28th, 2013
>>> Upload proposals here

Particular conditions

By entering this competition, applicants expressly authorize the Coal organization to publish, reproduce and display in public all or part of the elements of their entry, for any purpose linked with the promotion and communication of the Coal project, on all platforms, media, in all countries and for the LEGAL DURATION OF THE COPYRIGHT Entries submitted but not selected will be held in the archives of the Coal organization. They will, however, remain the property of their authors.

Participation in this call entails the full acceptance of the conditions laid out above.

Contact

For any further requests please write to : contact@projetcoal.fr

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