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Angelika Markul, winner of the 2016 COAL Award

COAL — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 09:31:15 +0000

The COAL Art and Environment Award 2016 yesterday awarded the artist Angelika Markul for her project Tierra del Fuego. The ceremony of this seventh edition of the COAL Prize organized at the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and the Sea, was inaugurated by the Minister Ségolène Royal who recalled the essential role of the artists to renew our relationship with the nature. Angelika Markul has been distinguished by a jury of personalities of contemporary art and ecology among ten nominated artists.

The COAL Art and Environment Prize is the international meeting place for visual artists who take up ecological issues and contribute through their creation to the construction of a sustainable world. This year again, nearly 250 artists from 46 countries representing six continents competed in an international call for projects. Placed under the high patronage of the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Sea and the honorary presidency of Mrs. Ségolène Royal, Minister of Environment, Energy and Sea, in charge of international relations on the Climate, the COAL Prize 2016 was awarded on October 12 to the artist Angelika Markul for the project Tierra del Fuego, during a ceremony organized in Paris at the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Sea, with the support of the European Union and the Imagine2020 network, the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Museum of Hunting and Nature and the François Sommer Foundation.

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The 2016 COAL Art and Environment Award winning artist:
Angelika Markul (France, born in 1975 in Poland) for her project Tierra del Fuego

Angelika Markul cultivates the desire to film and sublimate in a monumental video installation the progressive disappearance of the glacier of Tierra del Fuego. This exceptional archipelago, made up of a main island and a multitude of small islets, is located at the extreme south of the American continent between Argentina and Chile. This landscape is disappearing, just as the Amerindian civilization that lived there for twelve thousand years disappeared, decimated by the Europeans. Tierra del Fuego confronts the extinction of civilizations and their traditions with the future erasure of landscapes caused by climate change. Through digital manipulation of the image, the artist makes visible and accelerates the process of the glacier’s melting, creating a new landscape that belongs only to the mind of the viewer. This sublimation of danger challenges the viewer with modesty, sensitivity and poetry. In parallel, the artist summons a series of phenomena and influences which, together, compose a symphony of the end of the world: drawings evoking the lost traditions of the yagans and the alakalufs, these nomadic fishermen of Tierra del Fuego; the mylodon, this endemic prehistoric animal now extinct; or the Iluvia lenta (“slow rain”) by the Chilean poetess Gabriela Mistral, which calls for a necessary reconnection with mother earth.

The soundtrack, on the other hand, evokes two exceptional sound phenomena: a powerful and eerie trumpeting sound, which no one knows whether it comes from the earth or the sky, that has been heard and filmed by people all over the world and spread like wildfire on the web and in the media; and the recent recording by Nasa of the sound of the earth. Tierra del Fuego sublimates the current tensions between science, spirituality and environmental crisis, through a multi-media installation that envelops the viewer in an ambiguous, complex and dark world.

The winner of the 2016 COAL Art and Environment Prize receives a 5,000 euro grant and a residency at the Domaine de Belval, property of the François Sommer Foundation, along with additional financial support for production.
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The nine other artists nominated for the 2016 COAL Art and Environment Award were:
Florian Bérenguer (France), Histoire d’Archipel ; Alex Cecchetti (France), Belladonna, The Garden of Stories; Futurefarmers (USA), Seed Journey; Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet (France), Kiki e manu ; Jenny Lee (Sweden), Living Factory; Émeric Lhuisset (France), Last Water War, ruins of a future; Marginal – Zeno Franchini and Francesca Gattello (Italy), Decolonizing Rural Landscape; Heidi Quante and Alicia Escott (USA), The Bureau of Linguistical Reality and Marie Velardi (France), Terre-Mer.

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Jury 2016
Under the honorary presidency of Mrs. Ségolène Royal, Minister of the Environment, Energy and the Sea, in charge of international relations on the Climate

Claude d’Anthenaise, chief curator of the Museum of Hunting and Nature
Stéphane Foucart, journalist
Paul-Marie Grangeon, collector
Béatrice Josse, director of the national center of contemporary art Le Magasin in Grenoble
Olivier Lerude, sustainable development mission of the Ministry of Culture and Communication
Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, Commissioner General for Sustainable Development
Jérôme Sans, curator, co-artistic director of the Grand Paris Express

Image credit: © Emmanuel Nguyen Ngoc

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The finalists of the 2016 COAL Award

COAL — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 09:57:05 +0000

Awarding of the 2016 COAL Prize on October 12, at the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and the Sea, in partnership with the Museum of Hunting and Nature

Under the patronage of the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and the Sea and the honorary presidency of Minister Ségolène Royal, the 2016 COAL Prize will be awarded on October 12, during a ceremony organized in Paris at the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and the Sea, with the support of the European Union and the Imagine2020 network, the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Museum of Hunting and Nature and the François Sommer Foundation.

The COAL Art and Environment Prize is, since 2010, the international meeting place for visual artists who take up ecological issues and contribute through their creation to the construction of a sustainable world. This year again, nearly 250 artists from 46 countries representing six continents competed in an international call for projects. The ten nominated artists were selected for the aesthetic qualities of their proposals, their relevance to environmental issues, their inventiveness, their ability to transmit and transform, as well as their social and participatory approach. Together, they demonstrate how creation, in its diversity of forms and actions, is an essential force for building the future of our societies.

The finalists of the 7th edition of the COAL Prize

Florian Bérenguer (France) – History of Archipelago
Alex Cecchetti (France) – Belladonna, The Garden of Stories
Futurefarmers (USA) – Seed Journey
Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet (France) – Kiki e manu
Jenny Lee (Sweden) – Living Factory
Emeric Lhuisset (France) – Last Water War, ruins of a future
Marginal – Zeno Franchini and Francesca Gattello (Italy) – Decolonizing Rural Landscape
Angelika Markul (France) – Tierra del Fuego
Heidi Quante and Alicia Escott (USA) – The Bureau of Linguistical Reality with farmers
Marie Velardi (France) – Land and Sea

The global ecological crisis, which includes climate change, biodiversity erosion, resource scarcity and various forms of pollution, is above all a cultural challenge, since it is determined by our individual and collective behavior. This is why the COAL Prize supports artists around the world who use their talent to bear witness, to imagine and experiment with solutions. The COAL Prize testifies to the creativity and diversity of practices of this committed global artistic movement. From testimony to the search for practical and alternative solutions, through citizen mobilization, the experimentation of new technologies or the visualization of invisible phenomena, they recompose the conceptual and formal tools that generate change. The forms and the fields of intervention are multiple and are deployed in the form of plastic works, all media, surveys, stories, experiments, social sculptures, and seize subjects as vast as climate change and the melting of ice, the transformation of landscapes, biotechnologies, the extraction of resources, the protection of biodiversity, inter-species relations, land use, or the future of agriculture and food.

Awarding of the 2016 COAL Prize on October 12, at the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and the Sea, in partnership with the Museum of Hunting and Nature
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DOTATION

The winner of the 2016 COAL Prize receives a 5,000 euro grant and a residence at the Domaine de Belval, property of the François Sommer Foundation, with additional financial support for the production.

The François Sommer Foundation is partnering with COAL to provide the 2016 COAL Prize with a unique artistic creation residency at the Domaine de Belval, along with financial support for the production.

The François Sommer Foundation, recognized as a public utility since its creation on November 30, 1966, was created by François and Jacqueline Sommer, pioneers in the implementation of a humanist ecology. Faithful to the commitments of its founders, it works for the protection of a biodiversity where man finds his rightful place, for the respectful use of nature’s resources and the sharing of the wealth of natural, artistic and cultural heritage.

The domain of Belval is located in the commune of Belval-Bois-des-Dames. With a surface area of 600 hectares, it is essentially forested and covered with meadows and 40 hectares of ponds. A true observatory of rurality and wildlife, it welcomes each year artists selected for their contribution to the renewal of the vision of the relationship between man and his natural environment. The Foundation’s commitment to supporting contemporary artistic creation is demonstrated by the fact that the residence at the Domaine de Belval contributes to the dissemination of the artists’ works to a wide audience. It also puts at the service of the creation a network of complementary skills carried by the scientific and educational teams of the Museum of Hunting and Nature and those of the Belval estate.

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JURY

Placed under the honorary presidency of Mrs. Ségolène Royal, Minister of the Environment, Energy and the Sea, in charge of international relations on the Climate, the jury is composed of personalities of art, ecology and research:

Claude d’Anthenaise, chief curator of the Museum of Hunting and Nature
Stéphane Foucart, journalist
Paul-Marie Grangeon, collector
Béatrice Josse, director of the national center of contemporary art Le Magasin in Grenoble
Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, Commissioner General for Sustainable Development
Olivier Lerude, sustainable development mission of the Ministry of Culture and Communication
Jérôme Sans, curator, co-artistic director of the Grand Paris Express

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 selection committee for the 2016 COAL Award welcomed this year Raphaël Abrille, General Secretary of the Museum of Hunting and Nature.

The COAL Prize supports artistic projects in progress or to come. Its endowment is not intended to cover the totality of the production costs of the project and must be considered as an aid to its development.

IMAGE CREDIT

Seung-taek Lee, Earth Play, 1979-89, Balloon painted with oil, 500cm (diameter). Courtesy of Gallery HYUNDAI and the artist

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Call for projects for the COAL Prize 2016

COAL — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 09:23:28 +0000

COAL AWARD 2016

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Open until September 11

Under the high patronage of Mrs. Ségolène Royal, Minister of the Environment, Energy and the Sea, in charge of international relations on the Climate, with the support of the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and the Sea, the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the European Union and the Imagine2020 network, the Museum of Hunting and Nature and the François Sommer Foundation

>> Download the call for projects

The COAL Prize wants to reveal the richness of the answers brought by the artists to the current ecological problems and to accompany the emergence of a new culture of the nature and the sustainability. The global ecological crisis, which is manifested by climate change, the erosion of biodiversity, the depletion of resources, and various forms of pollution, is above all a cultural challenge, determined by our individual and collective behavior.

The COAL Prize is addressed to artists who, throughout the world, use their creativity to imagine and experiment with solutions, to bear witness to the transformation of territories, lifestyles, organizations, and modes of production, while contributing to them. Together, they participate in building a new collective narrative, a new imaginary, a developing common heritage, a positive, optimistic and essential framework for everyone to find the motivation to implement the necessary changes towards a more sustainable world.

The COAL Prize, created in 2010 by the association COAL Art and Ecology, aims to highlight to the general public and political actors these other ways of understanding the complexity of the climate and ecological challenge through a multiplicity of views and creative alternatives. Each year, the COAL Prize honors ten projects by artists working in the field of visual arts in connection with environmental issues. They are selected through an international call for projects. One of them is awarded the COAL Prize by a jury of art and ecology personalities.

Placed under the high patronage of Minister Ségolène Royal, the 2016 COAL Prize will be awarded on October 12, during a ceremony organized in Paris at the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and the Sea, with the support of the European Union and the Imagine2020 network, the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Museum of Hunting and Nature and the François Sommer Foundation.

CALENDAR

The closing date for the call for projects is September 11, 2016.

The 2016 COAL Prize will be awarded in October in Paris, during a ceremony organized in partnership with the Museum of Hunting and Nature and the François Sommer Foundation, in the presence of the ten selected artists and personalities of art and sustainable development.

DOTATION

The winner of the 2016 COAL Prize receives a 5000 euro grant and a residence at the Domaine de Belval (Ardennes), property of the François Sommer Foundation, along with additional financial support for production.

Download the charter of the residence at the Domaine de Belval

JURY AND SELECTION COMMITTEE BEING FORMED

JURY

Claude d’Anthenaise, chief curator of the Museum of Hunting and Nature
Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, Commissioner General for Sustainable Development
Stéphane Foucart, journalist
Paul-Marie Grangeon, collector
Béatrice Josse, director of the national center of contemporary art Le Magasin in Grenoble
Olivier LerudeSustainable development mission of the Ministry of Culture and Communication
Jérôme Sans, curator, co-artistic director of the Grand Paris Express

PROJECT SELECTION

The 2016 COAL Award selection committee welcomes this year Raphaël Abrille, General Secretary of the Museum of Hunting and Nature.

APPLICATION FORM

The application must consist of the following documents in a single file in pdf format (The application must not exceed 25 pages):

– The completed application form, to be downloaded Application-COAL2016 Award
-A synthetic and illustrated description of the proposed project presenting its artistic dimension and its perspective with the environmental subject;
– 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.

DEPOSIT OF FILES

All proposals must be submitted on the Coal server by midnight on September 11, 2016.

>>> SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

SPECIFIC 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 Prize, on all supports, by all media, in all countries. 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@projetcoal.fr

IMAGE CREDIT

Seung-taek Lee, Earth Play, 1979-89, Balloon painted with oil, 500cm (diameter). Courtesy of Gallery HYUNDAI and the artist

Jérôme Sans, curator, critic and director of contemporary art institutions, co-director of the Grand Paris Express

Claude d’Anthenaise, Director of the Museum of Hunting and Nature

Paul Marie Grangeon, collector and director of the general inspection of the ADEME (Agency for the Environment and Energy Management)

We are also awaiting confirmations from :

Roxana Azimi, journalist and art critic for the Quotidien de l’art

Vinciane Despret, philosopher

Gilles Bœuf, French biologist, professor at the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University (UPMC, Paris VI), and president of the National Museum of Natural History from 2009 to 2015.

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