http://wherewearenow.org Locating Art and Politics in NYC Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:42:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Summer Solstice Celebration Enjoy a Summer Solstice Celebration featuring a unique and indigenous summer solstice ceremonial presentation by Native Kechuwa peoples from Ecuador at noon. Solar-themed activities include: solar-car racing, solar printmaking, sun modeling, UV beading, solar telescope viewing, coloring the sun, sun spot viewers, and more. Museum astrophysicists will also ... http://wherewearenow.org/listings/celebrate-the-summer-solstice/ [caption id="attachment_1038" align="alignleft" width="295" caption="SOS Peace Pentagon (imagined exterior)"][/caption] 339 Lafayette Street in New York City, known as the Peace Pentagon, has served as a home base for dozens of activist groups and progressive organizations working for peace for over 40 years. Because it is in need of major repairs, the ... http://wherewearenow.org/vol3/sos-peace-pentagon/ [caption id="attachment_1073" align="alignleft" width="192" caption="“ANIMAL” (from the “So, Then” series), 2010. "Mango trees convalesce, twist into ceilings. Shadow threatens shade. A stench rises from the dark, recalling another, better ripeness. They tell you, She moves to make herself known. She reminds you what loving is: fear. The wind sends you ... http://wherewearenow.org/vol3/so-then-animal-vegetable-mineral/ [caption id="attachment_983" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Manahatta Muir web. Photo credit: The Mannahatta Project / Wildlife Conservation Society and Chris Harrison / Carnegie-Mellon University."][/caption] What would the island of Manhattan have looked like to Henry Hudson when he first arrived in 1609? In 2000, the landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson began using a ... http://wherewearenow.org/vol3/a-grammar-of-habitat/ For over 30 years artist and writer Gregory Sholette has been contributing to and reflecting on socially and critically engaged creative practices. He is currently Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Queens College, New York. He is the co-editor of Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, (University ... http://wherewearenow.org/vol3/envisioning-a-future-horizon-interview-with-gregory-sholette/ One Day was a gallery exhibition I organized with Ghazaleh Hedayat (Tehran) that was on view at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco in Spring 2010. Arriving in Tehran two weeks before the Iranian elections, I was looking forward to finally meeting the artists that I’d been collaborating with for ... http://wherewearenow.org/vol3/one-day/ [caption id="attachment_958" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Palisade Bay Team: Guy Nordenson and Associates, Catherine Seavitt Studio, Architecture Research Office, 2010. Storm surge flooding from Hurricane Categories 1 – 4 in Palisade Bay. (Category 1 shown in dark green, Category 2 in light green, Category 3 in orange, Category 4 in red)"][/caption] If climate ... http://wherewearenow.org/vol3/just-add-water-rising-currents-and-the-sea-change-in-architectur/ http://wherewearenow.org/vol3/megawords-on-aftermaths/ From Cochabamba to Cancun: a conversation between Tina Gerhardt and Robert S. Eshelman about the past six months of international climate change negotiations. Robert S. Eshelman: We both just returned from the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which took place just outside of ... http://wherewearenow.org/vol3/from-cochabamba-to-cancun/ Oliver Ressler is an artist who has worked on projects devoted to various socio-political themes. Since 1994 he has created projects in public space, made videos and organized exhibitions on issues of racism, migration, genetic engineering, economics, forms of resistance and social alternatives. His latest project “What Is Democracy?” has ... http://wherewearenow.org/vol3/what-is-democracy-an-interview-with-oliver-ressler/