Research Project

2002

Greenmuseum Online Exhibition with annual updates

From the Mojave Desert. Moisture - project members Claude Willey, Deena Capparelli, Bernard Perroud, Adam Belt, Mark Tsang, SE Barnett and Kahty Chenoweth

"An experimental research project undertaken by a Los Angeles-based artist collective to monitor and develop location-sensitive structures for the collection, retention, and use/re-use of water in the Mojave Desert"; millions have lived without love. No one has lived without water. Turkish businessman^a

Workshop

2003, September

University of Art and Design Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Fermentation workshop/seminar organize by the Environmental Unit, Department of Art, (Uiah, 2003)

Use of Fermentation as a metaphor describes contemporary issues such as "the fusion of the mass media and the encounter of different languages and cultures"

Solar Energy Art

1989 -2003

Ancient monuments, architectural installations and public buildings in Germany ,Italy, Northern Ireland, UK,USA

Solar Spectrum Environmental Art called Secrets of the Sun -Millennial Meditations (Clarke, 2001) that "uses the emotional impact of art to address the full range of nature from its most elemental expression as pure light to its most complex expression as global ecology" was created by Peter Erskine (1989-1992)^b

"all human life and our useful inventions are totally dependent on the delicate balance of Nature - our life support system. In addition to it's aesthetic value, I want to use the emotional impact of my art to wake people up about our global ecological crisis"

Waste Management

1999, April- July

Ontario Art Gallery, Ontario,

Canada

(www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/1999/07/09/25575.html

Waste Management-featuring art work by Tom Freidman, Germanie Koh,Michael Landy, Danile Olson, Sandra Recchio, Joseph Scanlan, David Shrigley and Kelly Wood

Through sculpture, drawings, etc. Waste management deals with the attitudes and values of the disposable and recyclable materials encountered in contemporary culture. A sort of a transition from Homo consumens to Homo conservans and Homo recyclans

2003, December - 2004, February

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth,

New Zealand

Bloom: Mutation, Toxicity and the Sublime featuring: Hany Armanious, Christine Borland, David Hatcher, Tamami Hitsuda, Eduardo Kac, Denise Kum, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Susan Norrie, Motohiko Odani, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Patricia Piccinini, Magnus Wallin and Boyd Webb

Explores environmental damage resulting from heavy metal dumping and use of Agent Orange; genetic engineering and its representation in literature in film and literature

ZeroCircles Art Project

1998 -1999

Interspecies Inc^c

ZeroCircles by Daniel Dancer^d

Project activity "is a strategic blend of art, spirit and environmental politics". The "zeros signify an end to commercial extraction on public lands" and as circles "zero pollution, zero waste, zero population growth, zero cut on public land" and "humankind's oldest symbol of wholeness and empowerment"

^a See http://moisture.greenmuseum.org/about.html for details on project phases.

^b See http://www.erskinesolarart.net/peter.htmlfor further information on international exhibitions and permanent installations.

^c A research program that provides creative opportunities to interact directly with wild animals, and habitat through music, art and ceremony (http://www.interspecies.com/).

^d Shards and Circles, Trafford Press, Manchester, 1990, 258 p. and ZeroCircles in Interspecies Newsletter, Fall 1998 by Daniel Dancer.