The COAL Award 2014 winner: Åsa Sonjasdotter for her project
High Diversity

High Diversity by Åsa Sonjasdotter, consists in reintegrating the cultivation of a dozen potato varieties that appeared during the 18th and 19th centuries in and around Paris. Åsa Sonjasdotter’s art project explores the links between the evolution of the tuber and French political history, considering both the rejection of certain varieties of vegetables due to the industrialization of agriculture, the revitalization of these same varieties by farmers or research laboratories, but also the conditions of registration on the list of national varieties of the European regulation. Inspired by the historical cultivation sites of the starch and the spirit of resistance to the standardization and production of food that is emerging in Paris through the initiatives of shared gardens, the artist identifies five possible cultivation areas, including the Jardin des plantes, the Jardin des Tuileries, the Ferme de Marconville, the shared garden Bois Dormoy, and the Cambrai shared and solidarity garden.

Video presentation of the project by the artist : High Diversity – Åsa Sonjasdotter

The Bloggers’ Special Award: Naziha Mestaoui for her project One Beat One Tree

Belgian-born artist and architect Naziha Mestaoui uses space, image and technology to create sensory and “immersive” experiences. His One Beat One Tree project combines new technologies and a reforestation program. In a pavilion covered with mirrors, permanently implanted in the Tuileries garden, the artist invites Parisians to plant a tree.

The jury of the COAL Prize 2014

Claude d’Anthenaise, Chief Curator and Director of the Museum of Hunting and Nature; Patrick Degeorges, Philosopher, emerging and strategic ideas at the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy; Valérie Duponchelle, Art critic for the Figaro ; Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Biologist specialized in evolutionary sciences, Professor at the National Museum of Natural History in botany and ecology; Catherine Larrère, Philosopher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, President of the Political Ecology Foundation; Dominique LestelResearcher in philosophy at the CNRS, assigned to the University of Tokyo; Laurent Le BonDirector of the Centre Pompidou Metz; Jacques MartialPresident of the Public Establishment of the Parc et de la Grande Halle de la Villette; Raphaël MénardDirector of Foresight, Egis Group; Pierre OudartDeputy Director in charge of the plastic arts at the General Directorate for Artistic Creation of the Ministry of Culture and Communication.

The jury of the bloggers

Nicolas Baechel for WeGotalent ; Ganaël Bascoulfor Soon Soon Soon ; Fabien Bouchard for Ufunk ; Alizée English for Dettachée de Presse ; Flore Michelot for Éco Créateurs ; Anne-Sophie Novel for De Moins en Mieux ; Nathalie Zaouati for The Parisienne.

The ten nominated projects:

Verdecuratoda…voi
Ettore Favini (Italy, born 1974)

Archipels
Étienne de France (France, born 1984)

End of Life
Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller (Switzerland, born in 1973 and 1969)

OOZ
Natalie Jeremijenko (Australia, born 1966)

Walking, Photographing
Geoffroy Mathieu (France, born in 1972)

A Lake for Les Halles
Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison (USA, born in 1929 and 1932)
One Beat One Tree, Naziha Mestaoui (Belgium, Born in 1975)

Plunge Paris
Michael Pinsky (United Kingdom, born 1967)

Urban Replanning
Igor Ponosov (Russia, born 1980)

High Diversity
Åsa Sonjasdotter (Sweden, born 1966)

COAL Awards 2014 Catalog

L’article Asa Sonjasdotter – Winner of the COAL Art and Environment Award 2014 est apparu en premier sur COAL.

The COAL Art and Environment Prize will reward the commitment of contemporary artists to current environmental issues. For this fifth edition of the COAL Prize, nearly 200 applications from artists from over 30 countries were received. The winning project, chosen from among ten nominated projects, will receive an award of 10,000 Euros on April 10.

In 2014, the theme of the COAL Prize is PARIS. The environmental and societal issues facing the French capital are numerous: pollution, energy, urban sprawl, transportation, land, biodiversity erosion, adaptation to climate change, etc. A creative approach to ecology is emerging in new social organizations, alternative modes of production, collaborative ways of living and working that advocate conviviality as well as happy sobriety. After having been for a long time the city of light, symbol of industrial modernity and progress, will Paris be able to shine again by embodying ecological post-modernity?

Finalist artists: Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, Étienne de France, Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Geoffroy Mathieu, Naziha Mestaoui, Natalie Jeremijenko, Michael Pinsky, Igor Ponosov, Ettore Favini

To consult the catalog of the ten finalist projects of the COAL Prize 2014, CLICK HERE!

The Jury of the COAL Prize 2014 is composed of:

Claude d’Anthenaise, Chief Curator of the Museum of Hunting and Nature
Fabrice Bousteau, Editor in chief of Beaux-Arts Magazine
Patrick Degeorges, Philosopher, emerging and strategic ideas at the Ministry of Ecology
Valérie Duponchelle, Art critic for Le Figaro
Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Biologist specialized in evolutionary sciences, botany and ecology, Professor at the National Museum of Natural History
Catherine Larrère, Philosopher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, President of the Political Ecology Foundation
Dominique Lestel, Researcher in philosophy at CNRS, assigned to the University of Tokyo
Laurent Le Bon, Director of the Centre Pompidou Metz
Jacques Martial, President of the Etablissement Public du Parc et de la Grande Halle de la Villette
Raphaël Ménard, Director of Foresight, Egis Group
Pierre Oudart, Deputy Director in charge of visual arts at the General Directorate for Artistic Creation of the Ministry of Culture and Communication

The Coal Art & Environment Prize ceremony will take place on April 10 at 6:30 pm at the Museum of Hunting and Nature, in Paris (3rd arrondissement). 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 of Plastic Arts. It is supported by the Egis group. The ceremony is organized in partnership with the Museum of Hunting and Nature, Hédonie and the responsible communication agency Limite.

L’article COAL AWARDS 2014 – THE NOMINEES est apparu en premier sur COAL.

The COAL Art and Environment Prize reveals the richness of the answers brought by the artists to the current environmental problems. Since 2010, the COAL Prize honors each year ten projects related to environmental issues, which are selected through an international call for projects involving hundreds of artists from around the world. One of the artists is awarded the COAL Prize of 10,000 euros by a jury of art and ecology personalities. In 2013 the COAL Prize, on the theme Adaptation, was awarded to Laurent Tixador for his project “Transitional Architecture”.

In 2014, the theme of the COAL Prize is PARIS. The environmental and societal issues facing the French capital are numerous: pollution, energy, urban sprawl, transportation, land, biodiversity erosion, adaptation to climate change, etc. A creative approach to ecology is emerging in new social organizations, alternative modes of production, collaborative ways of living and working that advocate conviviality as well as happy sobriety. After having been for a long time the city of light, symbol of industrial modernity and progress, will Paris be able to shine again by embodying ecological post-modernity?

Paris, one of the world’s great capitals of culture and creation, invites artists in 2014 to demonstrate together the central role that art can play in a sustainable and responsible city. The artists, mostly urban, heirs to the diversity that Paris embodies, are invited to shake up, rethink, and reinvent the capital, in a multipolar and connected world, to define a more just and radiant urban culture, in harmony with nature.

The 2014 COAL Prize will be awarded in Paris on April 10, 2014 at the Museum of Hunting and Nature, during a ceremony attended by the ten selected artists and personalities from the art and sustainable development fields.

Created in 2010 by the association COAL, the Coalition for Art and Sustainable Development, the COAL Art and Environment 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.

Download the call for projects in pdf

Calendar

The closing date for the call for projects is midnight on February 10, 2014.
The COAL Award will be presented on April 10, 2014 at the Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris.

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

Alice Audouin, Lauranne Germond, Loic Fel, Guillaume Robic and Clément Willemin, founders of Coal, and Maëva Blandin, production manager at Coal.

The selection committee is chaired by Anne-Marie Charbonneaux.

Jury

– Claude d’Anthenaise, Chief Curator of the Museum of Hunting and Nature
– Fabrice Bousteau, Editor in chief of Beaux-Arts Magazine
– Patrick Degeorges, Philosopher, emerging and strategic ideas at the Ministry of Ecology
– Valérie Duponchelle, Art critic
– Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Biologist specialized in evolutionary sciences, botany and ecology, Professor at the National Museum of Natural History
– Catherine Larrère, Philosopher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, President of the Political Ecology Foundation
– Dominique Lestel, Researcher in philosophy at the University of Tokyo.
– Laurent Le Bon, Director of the Centre Pompidou Metz
– Jacques Martial, President of the Etablissement Public du Parc et de la Grande Halle de la Villette
– Raphaël Ménard, Director of Foresight, Egis Group
– Pierre Oudart, Deputy Director in charge of visual arts at the General Directorate for Artistic Creation of the Ministry of Culture and Communication

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 testify to the creative potential of the plastic 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 0, a national platform for arts and ecologies, with the agreement of the artists.

Application Form

The application must consist of the following documents in a single file in pdf format(The application must not exceed 20 pages):

-A synthetic and illustrated description of the proposed project presenting its artistic dimension and its perspective with the environmental subject and the annual theme;
– Two high definition visuals illustrating the project;
-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 10, 2014.

> Put your file online on the COAL server

Special conditions

By participating in this call, the authors of the projects expressly authorize COAL 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, on all supports, by all media, in all countries and for THE LEGAL DURATION OF COPYRIGHT The 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(a)projetcoal.fr

Partners

Image credit

Lucie & Simon, Silent world, Paris 2009.

L’article Call for projects – COAL Prize 2014 est apparu en premier sur COAL.

The COAL Prize Art and Environment shows the enormous wealth of responses by artists to current environmental issues. Every year, since 2010, the COAL Prize has publicly recognized ten projects linked to environmental issues, which are selected in the framework of an international call for entries in which hundreds of artists from all over the world participate. One of these artists is given the COAL Prize, with an award of 10,000 Euros, by a Jury of well-known specialists in art and ecology. In 2013 the COAL prize on the theme of Adaptation was awarded to Laurent Tixador for his project “Architecture transitoire”.

In 2014, the theme of the COAL Prize is PARIS. The French capital has a great many environmental and social issues: pollution, energy, urban sprawl, transport, land, erosion of biodiversity, adaptation to the climate change, etc. A creative approach to ecology is emerging in new social organizations, alternative production methods, and collaborative ways of living and working which promote user-friendliness as well as an appreciation of the simpler things in life. Having been for a long time the City of Light, the symbol of industrial modernity and progress, will Paris be able to shine again by embodying ecological post modernity?

In 2014, Paris, one of the major global capitals of culture and creation, is inviting artists to show together the central role that art can play in a sustainable and responsible city. Artists, mostly urban, heirs to the diversity embodied by Paris, are invited to shake up, rethink and reinvent the capital in a multipolar connected world in order to define a fairer and more radiant urban culture, in harmony with nature.

The 2014 COAL Prize will be awarded in Paris on April 10th 2014 at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Paris), at a ceremony attended by the ten selected artists and well-known specialists in art and sustainable development.

Launched in 2010 by the French organisation 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, and the National Centre of Plastic Arts (CNAP).

Download Call for entries COAL Prize 2014

Schedule

Application deadline: February 10th, 2014 at midnight.
The COAL Prize will be awarded on April 10th 2014 at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.

Selection committee

– Nathalie Blanc, Geographer
– Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, President of Le Magasin, Grenoble
– Claudio Cravero, Director of the Parco d’Arte Vivente, Torino.
– 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
– Fabrice Bousteau, Editor-in-chief at Beaux-Arts Magazine
– Patrick Degeorges, Philosopher, emerging and strategic ideas to the Ministry of Ecology
– Valérie Duponchelle, Art critic
– Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Biologist, professor at Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris
– Catherine Larrère, Philosopher
– Laurent Le Bon, Director of Centre Pompidou Metz
– Dominique Lestel, Searcher in philosophy at Tokyo University
– Jacques Martial, President of Établissement Public du Parc et de la Grande Halle de la Villette
– Raphaël Ménard, Prospective director, Egis group
– Pierre Oudart, Deputy director in charge of Arts, General direction of artistic creation of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.

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(the application must not exceed 20 pages)

-A summary and illustrated description of the entry, detailing its artistic aspects and its relevance to the environmental and rural issues ;
– 2 HQ pictures illustrating your project ;
-A note on the technical aspects of the entry, notably in terms of construction and means of production ;
-An estimated budget;
-A Curriculum Vitae and a portfolio;

Submission

All proposals should be submitted to Coal server before February 10th, 2014.

>>> 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.

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Contact

For any further requests please write to : contact(a)projetcoal.fr

Partners

Picture

Lucie & Simon, Silent world, Paris 2009.

L’article Call for entries – COAL Prize 2014 – Paris est apparu en premier sur COAL.