COAL AWARDS 2012 – CALL FOR PROJECTS

For this third edition, the Coal Prize focuses on the theme of Rurality.

Although urban issues are more often the focus of attention than our countryside, rurality covers a wide range of crucial issues related to sustainable development. Lifestyles, production and consumption systems, natural cycles, Coal invites artists to rethink this theme against the grain and to invent a project for society that takes into account the complexity and complementarity of ecosystems. The theme of rurality covers:

– Management of resources and territories: territorial imbalance, landscape transformations, land use issues;
– Cultural representations and the social link: agricultural culture, city/country identity relations, reinvestment in the “local”, search for authenticity;
– Crisis factors: intensive production, phytosanitary and irrigation issues, urban sprawl, pollution;
– The environmental crisis: erosion of biodiversity, climate change ;
– Agricultural production and consumption systems: ownership, cooperatives, subsidies, distribution, consumption, land rights and access, GMOs ;
– Lifestyles: food, neo-rurality, know-how, solidarity, peasant life.

Review the call for projects

The Jury of the Coal Prize 2012 is composed of :

Fabrice Bousteau, Editor in chief of Beaux-Arts Magazine
Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, President of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP)
Gilles Clément, Landscape architect, writer
David Edwards, Founder of the Laboratory
Jean-Guy Henckel, National Director of the Cocagne Network
Raphaël Ménard, Director of Foresight, Egis Group
Pierre Paliard, Art historian, professor and researcher CNRS
Pascal Yonet, Director of Le Vent des Forêts

The Coal Art & Environment Prize ceremony will take place on March 13 at 7pm at Le Laboratoire, Paris 1st. The Coal Prize, placed under the high patronage of the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the National Center for Plastic Arts, benefits from a partnership with the Laboratory and the support of Egis, Veja, as well as a private donor. The ceremony is organized in partnership with Food & Alternative Beverage and Hédonie.