The ESA Research Network for the Sociology of the Arts is organizing its 8th meeting at the end of March 2007 in Lueneburg (Germany), with additional events in near-by Hamburg.


Art and Climate Change – Mutual Effects of Art/Culture and Politics/Nature 

Prequel plenary session of the ESA Arts Conference, in cooperation with the British Council Germany

(Session in German/Deutsch: Kunst und Klimawandel – Wechselwirkungen von Kunst/Kultur und Politik/Natur )

The panel debate in German language moderated by the radio journalist Jörgpeter Ahlers (NDR).

Participants: 

• David Haley (UK): Environmental artist and Research Fellow in MIRIAD at Manchester Metropolitan University. (Vortrag wird ins Deutsche übersetzt).
  
• Julien Knebusch (FR): YASMIN network's group on “perception of climate change in contemporary art”. (Vortrag in Deutsch).
  
• Samuel Fleiner (DE): Kurator von »RE-ART ONe«: Kunst und Design im Kontext von Abfall und Recycling. (Vortrag in Deutsch).
  
• Martha Hölters-Freier (DE) Umweltbundesamt, Beauftragte für Kunst und Kultur. (Vortrag in Deutsch).
  

Posters of the US artist Jane Marsching, about her projects Arctic Listening Post, Deep North, Arctic Then and Climate Commons will be exhibited at the Glockenhaus on the day of the panel debate (March 27th)

Date: March 27 2007

Location: Lueneburg, Glockenhaus Lüneburg Glockenstr., 21335 Lüneburg (in the centre of town), 19:00 hrs. – 20:30 hrs.

Everything will be fine - Art Program in the framework of the ESA Arts Conference

Curated by Sacha Kagan and Bettina Steinbrügge. A collaboration between the ESA Arts Conference, Universität Lüneburg and the Halle für Kunst Lüneburg.

Featuring three art exhibitions and a full day of events and performances (April 1st 2007), the Art  Program Everything will be fine focuses on the role of art as a research field and as a actor in the search process of sustainability. Participating artists: Roman Ondak, David Haley, Aviva Rahmani, Hans Abbing, Jokinen, Eleonore Straub, Karen Heald, Personal Cinema, Jane Marsching, the students of the CCC-Programm of the Geneva art school, Pascal de Lavergne, Karen Frostig.

Dates: March 28th to April 15th 2007, Lüneburg

Locations:  Halle für Kunst Lüneburg ; Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg ; Universität Lüneburg



New Frontiers in Arts Sociology: Creativity, Support and Sustainability - 8th Conference of the ESA Arts Research Network

The main conference venue will be at the University of Lueneburg, close to the medieval old town. On the afternoon of Friday March 30th, the conference will be  held at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.  The conference will feature keynote lectures, plenary discussions, paper sessions, workshops, and round tables.

Following the triad theme of the conference, "Creativity, Support, and Sustainability", we will put an emphasis on those issues that are of sociological interest within arts worlds but also relate to those powerful developments in economy, ecology and ethic contexts on the macro level that influence, manipulate or determine production, content and forms, distribution and reception of the arts.

The conference (apart from the Prequel) will be entirely in English

Dates:  Lueneburg and Hamburg (Germany), March 27 - April 1, 2007

Source: The organisers