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Art and Sustainability: Joseph Beuys and Beyond
For millennia, storytellers, musicians, artists and indigenous thinkers have engaged with sentient ecologies and cosmologies that enmesh people into complex relationships between them and all matter. At the core of all this is a concern of the environment and obtaining peace.
Our current eco-political system is designed by and for the very few, resulting in unending conflict and ecological decay. What world can we dream of for future generations? And what contributions can art and community make?
The White Wood, a living monument to peace, created by the people of Huntly, will only be fully visible in 300 years to come. Our discussions centre on social and cultural perspectives of sustainability: local and global understandings and lived practices around the world.
Focusing on the nexus between peace, ecology and art, White Wood Forum will ask whether art can be in harmony with the key principles of sustainability, to include next to ecology, social justice, grass roots democracy and non-violence. Bringing together people from anthropology, ecology, politics, peace making, the arts and our place, it will ask how we can foster a culture of complexity, an art and a community that impacts the future, to the benefit of generations to come?
Full details of the White Wood forum programme and booking links can be found here.
Opening night - 26 May7pm, Ex-Servicemen's Club, HuntlyProf Tim Ingold - Keynote SpeechScreening of 7000 Oaks with Q&A
Day 1 - 27 May: White Wood Forumfrom 9am, Stewarts Hall, Huntly7pm Peacemakers' Ceilidh with the Strathspey Fiddlers, Gordon Arms
Chair: Deirdre Heddon, Prof. Contemporary Practice, University of GlasgowKeynote: Satish Kumar, long-term peace and environmental activistTim Ingold, Chair of Social Anthropology, University of AberdeenRobin McAlpine, Director of Common WealShelly Sacks, Prof. Social Sculpture, Oxford Brooks UniversityRhea Thoenges-Stringaris, 7000 Oaks SocietyCaroline Wendling, White Wood artistPlus more to be announced
Day 2 - 28 May: White Wood Opening Ceremony10am, meet Huntly Square (11am, White Wood, Bin Forest)A day of stories, talks, politics, food and all things peace and ecology. Official opening of the White Wood stone by Alex Salmond, MP. Walk/talks with:
- Steve Brown, Forester
- Colin Shepherd, Archaeologist
- Caroline Wendling, Artist
- Ben MacFadyen, White Wood Story
Food by Rhynie Woman
- Speaker
- Prof. Tim Ingold
- Venue
- Huntly & District Ex Service Mens Club, 59 Gordon St, Huntly AB54 8ES
- Contact
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http://www.deveron-arts.com/events/white-wood-forum/