Environment 2.0 Exhibition
The Environment 2.0 Art Exhibition is centred at CUBE and includes artworks that make visible and tangible the outcomes of our actions at a local level, artworks conceived as social interventions, and artworks which arise out of a sustained engagement and dialogue between artists and scientists.
In urban environments in particular we can be insulated from both nature and the consequences of our actions as surely as the tarmac of the road cuts us off from the earth beneath.
Futuresonic 2009 this year seeks to open an original engagement in the environment, with projects which aim to provoke and inspire. Artists here avoid cliches and address environmental sustainability in ways both forceful and irreverent.
Elin Wikström (SE)
Reds Against Greys - One Kind of Squirrel Versus Another Kind of Squirrel (Part I)
An installation mixing film, performance art, lectures and wheelchair tag rugby to explore biodiversity issues and provide a metaphor for Darwin's battle of the species.
Ackroyd and Harvey (UK)
Gallery installation of 250 oak saplings and 3 day in-conversation event with Ackroyd & Harvey and guests. This long term project explores the legacy of renowned artist Joseph Beuys and his seminal artwork 7000 Oaks.
Amy Balkin (US)
Reading the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
A public recital of the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Join volunteer readers in the first attempted public reading of this globally important, yet rarely read document, to take place over several days.
HeHe (UK/DE)
An artist made wheel on a single train track for autonomous, personalised transport. Plus documentation of a large scale environmental artwork awarded a recent Golden Nica by Prix Ars Electronica in which a laser projection illuminates a cloud of vapour emissions produced by a power plant.
Jon Cohrs (US)
Winner of the Futuresonic 2009 Art Award. Artist Jon Cohrs has created an art device for striking it rich by prospecting for oil in the city centre. Visit CUBE to take part.
Haque Design + Research (UK/PK)
Haque Design + Research have designed an electricity socket which people can purchase and install in their homes. The socket comes equipped with a plant creating a "carbon sink."
Scenocosme (FR)
Akousmaflore is a small garden composed of living musical plants or flowers that sing in response to the invisible electrical aura of human touch. A flower concert is created.
Prayas Abhinav (IN)
A project on urban food systems in Bangalore and Delhi, exploring the nutritive, environmental and inter-personal implications that growing vegetables in the public can have on neighbourhoods.
Janine Randerson (NZ)
A film by new media artist Janine Randerson depicting the formation and decay of clouds as fluid, visual poetry and drawing conceptual parallels with the processing of data by computers.
Aaron Koblin (US)
Data visualisation artist Aaron Koblin will be presenting Flight Patterns, a stunning visual animation of the path of the thousands of aircraft in American airspace during a single day.
Andrea Polli (US)
At Futuresonic 2009, Polli is participating in the Environment 2.0 Lab and showing two artworks at CUBE including documentation of Cloud Car, a public artwork in which a cloud of steam and mist surrounds a Ford Taurus station wagon.
Eva Meyer-Keller (DE)
A film in which three different catastrophic weather scenarios are re-enacted with playful precision using household objects and materials such as a mixer, a hairdryer, salt and water.
POC Group (ES)
Post-Oil Cities: Imagining Cities Beyond Oil
A touring exhibition curated by Lluis Sabadell Artiga and Carlos Sant'Ana with contributions from artists, architects, designers and engineers on how we might transform our cities to make them more independent from oil.
Fujiko Nakaya
Fogfalls #47670 'Tales Of Ugetsa' & Foggy Forest
Documentation of work by the winner of this year's Special Achievement Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival. Since the 1960's Fujiko Nakaya has created work exploring the interface between nature and technological society.
Kim Abeles (US)
Presidential Commemorative Smog Plates and other portraits of US politicians in smog
An installation of beautiful and distinctive ceramic plates illustrating how the promises of politicians are at odds with the harm done to the environment in different eras.
Rob Bailey (UK)
Manchester artist Rob Bailey is installing thousands of tiny insects weaving a trail through the gallery. Each one is made from discarded magazines and leaflets, the detritus found under feet in urban environments.
Ackroyd & Harvey / James Marriott (UK)
Ackroyd & Harvey in conversation with James Marriott
A rare opportunity to hear these artists discuss their mutual attachment to acorns and explore how Beuys' self-declared mission to change the social order can be interpreted at the beginning of the 21st century.
Megan MacMurray & Angela Pablo (US)
Beautiful devices indicate electricity usage in real time, to make energy consumption visible and palpable. Design project on energy in the home, by graduates from New York's influential ITP.
Elin Wikström (SE)
Reds Against Greys - One Kind of Squirrel Versus Another Kind of Squirrel (Part II)
A conceptual art event and expanded cinema performance by Elin Wikstrom with leading experts in biodiversity and Wigan and District Wheelchair Tag Rugby Club.
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