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Ecovention Europe Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017 Ecovention Europe Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017 Sue Spaid København London Amsterdam Berlin Warszawa Bristol Sittard Paris Kraków Milano Venezia Torino Front Cover: This catalogue accompanies the exhibition: “Ecovention Europe: Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017” Each city was awarded 1 point for: Curated by Sue Spaid — each eco-art show presented in one of its institutions (public or Museum de Domijnen Hedendaagse Kunst private), Ligne 5 — hosting a COP, 6131 MT Sittard, NL — and individual artists’ projects launched in the region. 3 September 2017–7 January 2018 Points were not awarded for European Green Capital Awards. Publisher: Museum De Domijnen Hedendaagse Kunst www.dedomijnen.nl/tentoonstellingen Final score: Venezia 32, Warszawa 29, Berlin 29, Paris 27, Køben- havn 24, London 20, Bristol 18, Amsterdam 18, Milano 14, Kraków Print edition ©2017 Museum De Domijnen Hedendaagse Kunst 12, Sittard 12, and Torino 11. Team Italia wins with 57 points! All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any The cover is a “borderless map” of Europe that indicates every form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photo- place mentioned in the book, giving special attention to twelve copying, recording and information storage or retrieval) without hotspots. Sizes of city dots are proportional to the amount of permission in writing from the author and publisher. eco-art activity (Venezia is 3x larger than Torino, which is slightly smaller than Sittard, Kraków, and Milano, etc.). Text and e-book ©2017 Sue Spaid Section 10 © Harrison Studio and Lucrezia De Domizio Durini We do not claim to know every event that happened in every All images copyright their respective owners, whether artists, city since 1957, so this is an approximation … Hopefully, it will photographers, galleries, museums or estates. encourage future researchers to locate and better document the many projects we missed or never discovered … Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Back Cover: Spaid, Sue (b. 1961) Ecovention Europe: Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017. Nicolás García Uriburu and Joseph Beuys, RHEIN WATER ISBN # 978-90-75883-56-5 POLLUTED BOTTLE-DÜSSELDORF, 1981. Photograph. Cour- 1. Ecology 2. Art 3. Food 4. Farming 5. Water tesy Azul García Uriburu. Collection: Nicolás García Uriburu, Buenos Aires, AR. 6. Biodiversity 6. Climate Change 7. Ameliorative Art ©Nicolás García Uriburu, reproduced with permission. Book and cover design by Kristian Bjørnard and Cecylia Malik, Happening with Forest Mandalas, 2016, Hand- Montana Bowman at the Office of Kristian Bjørnard painted protest props. Kraków, PL. Courtesy Cecylia Malik: Photo www.ookb. co Credit: Tomasz Wiech. Printed and bound in The Netherlands by Impreso Maastricht Lois Weinberger, Ohne Titel, 2011, Colour photograph, Courtesy www.impreso.nl SMAK Belgium. Collection: SMAK, Gent, BE. Photo Credit: Paris Tsitsos. Ecovention Europe Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017 Sue Spaid 6 Forewords & Acknowledgements 70 Section Three: Valuing Anew/ Tom de Rooij (NL) • Sue Spaid (US/BE) Living With Wastelands Lara Almarcegui • Sjoerd Buisman (NL) • Abraham 12 Section One: Introduction Cruzvillegas (MX) • herman de vries (NL/DE) • Brandon Ballengée (US) • Dennis Balk (US) • Song Dong (CN) • les fujak (FR/DE) • Hans Haacke Betty Beaumont (US) • Joseph Beuys (DE) • Jackie • Vanessa Harden (UK) • Patricia Johanson • Piotr Brookner (US) • Mel Chin (US) • Teddy Cruz (MX/ Kowalski (PL) • Out of this World (PL) • Robert US) • Betsy Damon (US) • Guy Debord (FR) • Agnes Smithson • Lois Weinberger (AT) Denes (HU/US) • Walter De Maria (US) • Georg Dietzler (DE) • Mark Dion (US) • Harriet Feigenbaum (US) • Andrea Fraser (US) • Simon Grennan (UK) & 92 Section Four: Biodiversity/ Christopher Sperandio (US) • Hans Haacke (DE/US) Accommodating Species • Henrik Håkansson (SE/DE) • Harrison Studio (US) • Maria Thereza Alves (BR/DE) • Kristina Buch (DE/ Lynne Hull (US) • Patricia Johanson (US) • Asger Jorn UK) • Brandon Ballengée • Camilla Berner (DK) • (DK) • Kathryn Miller/Michael Honer (US) • Christian Sjoerd Buisman • Rebecca Chesney (UK) • Czekalska Philipp Müller (CH/DE) • Viet Ngo (VN/US) • Nils + Golec (PL) • Hans de Vries (NL/DK) • herman de Norman (UK) • Ocean Earth (DE/JP/US) • Robert vries • Olafur Eliasson • Tue Greenfort (DK/DE) • Smithson (US) • Alan Sonfist (US) • Susan Leibovitz Henrik Håkansson (SE/DE) • Harrison Studio • Chris- Steinman (US) • George Steinmann (CH) • Superflex tian Philipp Müller • Jean-François Paquay (BE) • Åsa (DK) • Mierle Laderman Ukeles (US) Sonjasdotter (SE/DE) • Koen Vanmechelen (BE) • Lois Weinberger 36 Section Two: Activism to Publicise Issues/ Moni- toring Ecological Problems Ecovention Europe Ecovention 431art (DE) • Lara Almarcegui (ES/NL) • And And Section Five: Urban Infrastructure/ 124 And • Art Not Oil Coalition (UK) • Joseph Beuys (DE) • Environmental Justice Brett Bloom (US/DK) • Melanie Bonajo (NL) • Daniel Assemble (UK) • FIELDCLUB (UK) • Kinga Kiełczńska Buren (FR) • Emmeline de Mooij (NL) • Linas Doma- • N55 • Nils Norman • Ooze (NL) • Ugo La Pietra (IT) • rackas (LI/DE) • Ines Doujak (AT) • Lise Duclaux (FR/ Marjetica Potrč • Tomás Saraceno (AR/DE) • George BE) • Olafur Eliasson (IS/DK/DE) • Field Work (DK) • Steinmann • Superflex • Joris Von Tubergen (NL) • Bonnie Fortune (US/DK) • Galerie für Landschafts- Urbaniahoeve (NL/US) kunst (DE) • Gruppo 9999 (IT) • Kinga Kiełczyńska (PL/DE) • LandKunstLeben (DE) • Liberate Tate (UK) • Cecylia Malik (PL) • Christian Philipp Müller (CH/ 146 Section Six: Reclamation and DE) • Teresa Murak (PL) • Myvillages (UK/NL/DE) • Restoration Practices N55 (DK) • Platform (UK) • Marjetica Potrč (SI/DE) Joseph Beuys (DE) • Deborah Bowman (US) /Patrik • Nis Rømer (DK) • Ralf Sander (DE) • Hans Schulte Marty (FR) • Jackie Brookner • Rebecca Chesney (DE) • Katia Sokolowa-Zyzak (RU/PL) • George (UK) • Mel Chin • Agnes Denes • Georg Dietzler • Steinmann • Natalie Taylor (UK) • Vera Thaens (BE) • Hans Haacke • Harrison Studio • Nils Norman • Ooze Touchstone collaborations (UK/SA) • Nicolás García • Parco Arte Vivente (IT) • Marjetica Potrč • Herman Uriburu (AR/FR) • Elżbieta Wierzbicka (PL/FR) Prigann (DE) • Studio Orta (UK/AR/FR) • Vera •Wooloo (DK) Thaens • Touchstone collaborations 4 164 Section Seven: Food Security A Sustainable Printing Manifesto 431art • Gianfranco Baruchello (IT) • Paul Chaney Inspired by Sara De Bondt,“Insights 2014 Design (UK) • Søren Dahlgaard (DK) • Agnes Denes (HU/ Lecture Series,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US) • Free Soil (DK, US, BE, AU) • Futurefarmers (US, US. Co-written by De Bondt and Chris Svensson, BE) • Gruppo 9999 (IT) • Hans Haacke • Hoe and Sun 2009. Tweaked by Kristian Bjørnard, 2017. Community Garden (PL) • Elżbieta Jabłońska (PL) • Ugo La Pietra • Nils Norman • AnneMarie Maes The “YES” column guided many of this book’s (BE) • N55 • Ooze • Parque nō (PL) • Marjetica Potrč design decisions.. • Moirika Reker (PT) • Nis Rømer • Åsa Sonjas- dotter • Vera Thaens • Touchstone collaborations • NO YES Urbaniahoeve — Less than 100% post- — 100% Post-consumer consumer recycled recycled paper paper — Vegetable-based inks 196 Section Eight: Climate Change — Petroleum-based inks — Light ink coverage Ashden Directory (UK) • Brett Bloom • Cape — Heavy ink coverage — Waterless printing Farewell (UK) • Søren Dahlgaard • Olafur Eliasson • — Spot varnish — Digital printing Harrison Studio • Studio Orta • Katie Paterson (UK/ — Foil blocking — Blind embossing DE) • Platform (UK) • Tomás Saraceno • George — Plastic (substrates, — Reusing, reducing, Steinmann • Tavares Strachan (BS) • Vera Thaens • shrink wrapping, recycling, renewing, Tipping Point (UK) • Transition Town Totnes (UK) bags, etc.) repairing, reclaiming — Laminating — Engraving, — Waste embossing, die- 212 Section Nine Oikos — Glues cutting, lasercutting 431art • Melanie Bonajo • Ecole Mondiale (BE) — Perfect binding — Staples Contents of Table — Custom paper sizes — Wire-binding • Katrien Van Hecke (BE) • Kinga Kiełczyńska • — Heavy paper stock — Standard paper sizes Teresa Murak • George Steinmann • Touchstone — Coated paper — Thin paper collaborations — Single sided — Uncoated paper — Trimming — Double sided — Bleed — Black & white 248 Section Ten: Two Essays — Metallic inks or paints — One colour Harrison Studio (US) • — CMYK — Two colours (In Lucrezia De Domizio Durini (IT/FR) — Multi-colour (3, 4, 5, general, the fewer 6+) colours the better…) — Printing abroad — Local printers 258 Section Eleven: Two Chronologies — Bigger — Smaller — More — Less 290 Section Twelve: Glossary 302 Section Thirteen: Index 5 Museum De Domijnen Hedendaagse Kunst proudly presents the “Ecovention Europe” exhibition. The Director’s accompanying exhibition publication provides an overview of art and ecology in Europe over the last sixty years. Many different artworks and artists are Foreword addressed in this publication and excerpts from this text are included in the exhibition both inside and outside of the museum. It is important that artists hold up a mirror to citizens and policy makers, so that they always remain aware of the choices they want to and need to make. Ecology is a topic that affects everyone at any given moment. The significance of understanding the ecological phenomena that are caused by people relates to the continued exis- tence of humanity and the planet. Climatological changes can only be impeded if we all change our behaviour. This change starts with the individual but requires a global commitment to ensure
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