L’article New Gastronomies : Arts, Food and Ecological Territories est apparu en premier sur COAL.

L’article ACT – Art Climat Transition, our European cooperation network! est apparu en premier sur COAL.

On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the European network for art and climate change Imagine 2020, of which COAL is the French representative, invited the critic and essayist Pieter Van Bogaert to a Grand Tour of Europe, during which he was able to meet with committed artists collaborating with the Imagine 2020 network’s cultural partners, from a dozen European countries.

In the spring of 2018, he thus embarked on a “grand tour” and traveled through the 10 partner cities of the Imagine 2020 network to meet the artists in their studios. It is by bike, train, plane and boat that the author accomplished this incredible journey and crossed the cities of Antwerp, Hamburg, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Lyon, Riga, Rotterdam, Terschelling and finally Zagreb.

The book offers us a compilation of conversations and experiences conducted by the author, including the chapter Accablement: Cable, Thread, Link, with Thierry Boutionnier, artist winner of the COAL art and environment award 2010 for his project “Take Roots!” and regular collaborator of COAL. In this conversation with Pieter Van Bogaert at his home in Lyon he talks about his working process, his projects and his thoughts.

Grand Tour 2020 – Meetings Across Europe on Art and Ecology will be launched in France at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature during the evening
Ice stories
November 28 and will be on sale from November 29 at the Marianne Goodman Bookshop and elsewhere.

Image credit: © Imagine 2020

L’article Grand Tour 2020 – Meetings Across Europe on Art and Ecology est apparu en premier sur COAL.

As a continuation of the ArtCOP21 professional workshops(www.artcop21.com), On the Move of the European Creative Climate Leadership network, of which COAL is a member, is organizing the Policy Lab 2018 on July 3 and 4 in Leeuwarden-Friesland, European Capital of Culture. On this occasion, Loic Fel, president of COAL, intervenes.

This Policy Lab entitled “Cities, Culture and Climate Change: Practices, Models and Future Actions” includes a variety of inspiring talks by cultural leaders, as well as a hands-on workshop designed for city representatives, influencers and policy makers. It is an opportunity for participants to discover many international examples of best practices, which showcase the low-carbon cultural economy as a driver of civic engagement, cultural diplomacy and innovation in urban development. Participants can also share their own experiences, ideas and challenges and have the opportunity to conduct an initial analysis of their cities and practices, to build successful initiatives and develop new approaches and partnerships.

The Policy Lab’s objectives are to:
– Demonstrate the contribution of artists and cultural professionals to the ecological agenda of cities;
– Identify opportunities to connect cultural and environmental policy makers: supporting innovation and unlocking economic, social and environmental values;
– Share good practices around how cities and their nearby rural suburbs can better support their cultural infrastructure, arts actions and cultural projects to respond to climate and environmental change through specific arts funding, but also policy, training and investment ;
– Begin to define key opportunities for integrating art, culture and the environment in cities: identify opportunities to create, converge and reinforce new and existing policies and practices.

Speakers and contributors: ECOC representatives (Leeuwarden-Friesland 2018 and Eleusis 2021), COAL, DutchCulture/TransArtists, Welcome to the Village, Oerol Festival, Recycle Art Festival, Julie’s Bicycle

This event is co-organized by On the Move and Julie’s Bicycle, with the support of the European Cultural Foundation and UCLG-Culture Committee, in the framework of the European Creative Climate Leadership network.

The European Creative Climate Leadership network supports cultural professionals in applying the qualities of the cultural sector to sustainable development. The network program is designed to help artists and cultural professionals reach their potential and maximize their creative and cultural actions in relation to climate change, with the help and support of the network structures to test and evolve their ideas and through sharing practices.

Policy Lab
July 3 – 4, 2018
Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
More information on: on-the-move.org

L’article CCL Policy Lab est apparu en premier sur COAL.

On June 25-29, 2018, Artsadmin organized the 2018 Summerlab of the European network Imagine2020, of which COAL is a member. The artists Anne Fischer and Anaïs Tondeur, respectively winner and finalist of the 2017 COAL Prize, were able to participate in this initiative, along with a dozen other European artists chosen by the member structures of the Imagine 2020 network.

These five days allowed for a time of reflection, inspiration and discovery of practices and projects that respond with commitment and great inventiveness to the social and environmental issues of our time, while promoting wonderful encounters between participants.

Back in pictures!

(c) Anaïs Tondeur

L’article A look back at the 2018 Imagine2020 Summerlab est apparu en premier sur COAL.

From July 6-9, 2017, COAL and the Poetic Party hosted “Farm Camp!”, the European SummerLab of the Imagine2020 network, as part of the Sustainable Culture Lab#2 The Table and the Territory. Ten artists chosen by the member structures of the Imagine2020 network resided for 4 days at Zone Sensible – Ferme Urbaine de Saint-Denis. Four days to confront the issues of the relationship between food and territory in a context of necessary adaptation to climate change from the concrete example of the Saint-Denis Farm. Each participant produced a work in response to the Farm’s project and the questions raised, using the means of their choice.

Artists present

The Imagine2020 network structures have each invited one or more artists to participate in SummerLab 2017. Guest artists included Siobhan McGrath (UK), Maria Lucia Cruz Correia (SI), Gosie Vervloessem (BE), Theo Omambala (UK), Maidie Van Den Bos (NL), Mārtiņš Zariņš and Toms Treinis (LG), Olivier Nattes, Pauline Toyer and Celsian Langlois (FR).

Farm Camp!

Putting themselves in the situation of farm workers, the artists organized their camp on the site of the Farm and produced new creations around the issues of sustainable food. This first international residency is the beginning of a local and popular collection of contemporary art “made in 93” on the site of the Urban Farm in full reconversion.

Workshops

Four half-days were devoted to workshops to further understand the cultural, agricultural and food context of the farm: a discussion on urban agriculture with Adrien Baysse-Lainé, a doctoral student specializing in agricultural relocalization; a guided tour of the Saint-Denis market, the largest in Île-de-France, by local representatives; a permaculture workshop at the farm; a creative writing workshop seeking to produce food fictions based on scientific texts, and conducted by Nathalie Blanc, geographer and director of LADYSS (Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces) and Marine Legrand, anthropologist, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle; a conference open to the public with Nathalie Blanc (geographer, LADYSS), Olivier Hamant (biologist, INRA), Paulie Guinard (geographer, ENS Paris), Christophe Lavelle (biogeneticist, MNHN), Xavier Fourt (artist of the Bureau d’Études collective) and Marine Legrand (anthropologist, MNHN) which aimed to show the contributions of the collaboration between art and science to the transformation of territories.

Production of works

Three half days were devoted to experimentation and production of works. These were presented to about 50 people on Sunday, July 9.

The 10 artists organized a walk in the shape of an intestine in the farm, to allow visitors to wander among the plants while discovering the works and thoughts inspired by the place.

Pauline Toyer, La Ligne
Following the reflections that the artists had during these four days on the notion of border, of belonging to a rural or urban environment, Pauline Toyer created a door between two worlds, that of the farm and that of the city. On the fence marking the separation of these two environments, she has thus suspended in symmetry, on both sides of the fence, a plant from the farm. This production is as much an invitation to the outside world to come and see what is happening on the farm as it is an extension of the farm’s territory beyond its boundaries.

Toms Treinis & Mārtiņš Zariņš, Urban Farmony
Maidie Van Den Bos, City or Rural?
Over the course ofthree days, Toms Treinis and Mārtiņš Zariņš recorded the various sounds of the farm and then made their own sound composition that blends farm sounds and composer tracks. Sitting in the dark in a container, visitors were invited to listen to these sounds while smelling and tasting various compositions made by Maidie Van Den Bos using the farm’s products. These cocktails and scents each referred to either a rural or urban environment.

Celsian Langlois, Local Convergence
CelsianLanglois is interested in cooking food and has created a solar installation. A transparent tarpaulin, containing a little water, reflected the sun’s rays. The magnifying effect produced was to lead to a fire starting. Three supports were placed on the ground to encourage this fire: laurel, twigs and wood. The rotation of the sun is then perceptible by the traces that these departures of fire leave on the supports.

Olivier Nattes, The Possibilities
A set of drawings describes the possible evolutions of the farm, from its takeover by the Poetic Party in March 2017 to 2027. An imaginary story, which leaves plenty of room for alternative and innovative ways of operating.

Maria Lucia Cruz Correia and Gosie Vervloessem, The Table and the Territory Game
Through a game similar to dominoes, the two artists invite visitors to explore the boundaries of the farm through imaginary connections. Each participant puts himself in the shoes of an entity of the environment (soil, climate, …) to express his feelings. A game to shift the gaze and get out of an anthropocentric vision.

Theo Omambala and Siobhan McGrath, Offalogy Africa
The two artists invited visitors to taste African dishes without revealing their composition. Animal offal, heart, liver, tongue, but also plantains and salad constituted this meal, which refers to the African spiritual offerings to the gods of nature.

And also:
– Planting questions: on rice leaves, visitors could write different questions about the farm or the relationship to food with red cabbage ink, then fill the leaf with vegetables to taste.
– Readings: various texts produced during the creative writing workshop were read.

The partners

This initiative is funded by the European Union through the Imagine2020 network. The Laboratory for Sustainable Culture is also supported by the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Carasso Foundation.

L’article FARM CAMP ! IN PICTURES est apparu en premier sur COAL.

COAL and the Poetic Party are organizing “Farm Camp!”, the European SummerLab of the Imagine2020 network, as part of the Laboratory of Sustainable Culture#2 The Table and the Territory. Twelve artists chosen by the member structures of the Imagine2020 network are invited for 4 days to Zone Sensible – Ferme Urbaine de Saint-Denis. Four days to confront the issues of the relationship between food and territory in a context of necessary adaptation to climate change from the concrete example of the Saint-Denis Farm. Each participant is thus asked to produce a work in response to the Farm’s project and the questions raised, using the means of his or her choice.

The Laboratory of Sustainable Culture#2 “The Table and the Territory

It is within the framework of the second edition of our Laboratory of Sustainable Culture#2 “The Table and the Territory”, that FARM CAMP takes place!

To experiment and implement a cultural approach to the ecological transition of territories, COAL and the LADYSS-CNRS (Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces) have created the Laboratory of Sustainable Culture, a collaborative program at the crossroads of the humanities, natural sciences and the arts. The session “The Table and the Territory” focuses specifically on sustainable food issues and brings together artists and scientists (ENS Paris, ENS Lyon, INRA Lyon, LADYSS) on innovative experimental sites in the field of sustainable food in France, including Zone Sensible – Urban Farm of Saint-Denis. The productions made together are shared through exhibitions, editions and public events.

Sensitive area, Urban Farm of Saint-Denis

FARM CAMP! takes place at Zone Sensible – Urban Farm of Saint-Denis. This place is the result of the takeover by the Poetic Party of the last remaining 19th century market garden farm at the gates of Paris. Since March 2017, the Parti Poétique, an artistic collective founded around artist Olivier Darné, has been developing a four-hectare permaculture farm and cultural programming on the theme of “Nature-Culture-Food” as part of a cooking academy project in partnership with Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse.

The objectives of this local and participative project are to safeguard biodiversity in the heart of the city, to carry out a cultural action in dialogue with the territory, to contribute to the professional integration of the inhabitants, and to promote the cultural diversity of Seine-Saint-Denis.

On the program of FARM CAMP !

Putting themselves in the situation of farm workers, the artists organize their camp on the site of the Farm and produce new creations around the issues of sustainable food. This first international residency is the beginning of a local and popular collection of contemporary art “made in 93” on the site of the Urban Farm in full reconversion.

The Imagine2020 network structures have each invited one or more artists to participate in SummerLab 2017. Guest artists include Siobhan McGrath (UK), Maria Lucia Cruz Correia (SI), Gosie Vervloessem (BE), Theo Omambala (UK), Maidie van den bos (NL), Mārtiņš Zariņš and Toms Treinis (LG), Olivier Nattes, Pauline Toyer and Celsian Langlois (FR).

The partners

This initiative is funded by the European Union through the Imagine2020 network. The Laboratory for Sustainable Culture is also supported by the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Carasso Foundation.

European SummerLab FARM CAMP
Sensitive Area – Urban Farm of Saint-Denis
July 6 – 9, 2017

Photo credits © Olivier Darné

L’article FARM CAMP ! Summer lab Imagine2020 est apparu en premier sur COAL.