EXHIBITION: Reclamation: Artists’ Books on the Environment, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Center for the Book and San Francisco Public Library host Reclamation: Artists' Books on the Environment, a juried exhibition of artists' books exploring our relationship to the environment at this moment on the planet.
Environmental concerns demand increasing attention, from rising temperatures and dangerous weather events, to crises in water quality, to multiplying fires...the list goes on, echoed around the globe. Book artists create works that involve, educate, and inspire action. Book art takes many forms. Reclamation: Artists' Books on the Environment seeks to inspire and educate viewers to reflect on climate change and its impacts locally, nationally, and internationally. At the same time, the exhibition endeavors to avoid dualistic arguments common to today’s divisive political scene.
This exhibition takes place under the umbrella of The Codex Foundation's EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss call to action.
EXHIBITION: Place and Beyond, Seoul, South Korea
Exhibition: ‘Place and beyond’
Book exhibition ‘Place and beyond’ composed of recent Datz’s publications is held at the D’Ark Room in Guui-dong, Seoul. Along the process of contemplating life and weaving it into a single book, there are poems derived from the boundaries of the inside and the outside, the reality and the ideal. We invite you to the time and space of the artists who may stand here but imagine the beyond.
Artists and Books:
Katherine Yungmee Kim ‘Longitude’
Jane Baldwin ‘Only the River Remains’
Linda Connor ‘Constellations’
Bryant Austin ‘sun, water, being’
Phyllis Galembo ‘SODO’
Mary Daniel Hobson ‘Offerings’
Barbara Bosworth ‘Sea of Clouds’
Yoonsuk Kim ‘Here to Stay’ Min Kyung ‘Her and My Parabola’
*Date: 2021, 4.30 - 8.31
Place: D’Ark Room / D’Front Space, Seoul, South Korea
ANNOUNCEMENT: Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, Summer & Fall of 2021
EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss exhibitions will take place in multiple locations throughout the U.S. and abroad during the Summer and Fall of 2021—a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention that will investigate extractive industry in all of its forms (from mining and drilling to the reckless exploitation of water, soil, trees, marine life, and other natural resources). The project will expose and interrogate extraction’s negative social and environmental consequences, from the damage done to people, especially Indigenous and disenfranchised communities…
PRESS RELEASE | If only the river remains to speak. Sensitive environment for the Omo Valley tribes
Digital rendering, Studio Azzurro, 2018
If only the river remains to speak. Sensitive environment for the Omo Valley tribes
Press release for Museo delle Cultre, Milan, Italy
October 1, 2018 – December 31, 2018
An art installation by photographer Jane Baldwin and Studio Azzurro, in support of Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples
The story of peoples who depend on a river for their lives. Voices activated by a piece of red clay—red as the gravel bed of the Omo River, which is at risk of drying up. A story of a river and a struggle for life…
The project combines the artwork of American photographer and educator Jane Baldwin with the creativity of the renowned Milanese art research group Studio Azzurro, founded in Milan in 1982. The immersive art experience raises awareness for the vital work of Survival International by deepening empathy for tribal peoples’ lives, lands and cultures caught in a man-made environmental and humanitarian crises in Ethiopia’s Omo River Valley and Kenya’s Lake Turkana watershed, which was recently added to UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites in Danger.
Immersed in the sounds of a flowing river, a metaphorical sculpture of red clay symbolizes the Omo River’s meandering course. The red, desiccated surface of the river indicates the crumbling and dried up riverbed, deprived of its annual flood by a controversial development project. The visitor transforms a clay fragment into an amulet that is dropped into a receptacle, transforming the river into a storyteller, the voice of the river becomes the voices of the women.
Thus, the interactive poetic journey along the Omo River begins as visitors engage with the women, who are the main characters of the project and the depositaries of oral traditions through tales, myth and song.
The project honors the women of this region, the birthplace of humankind, and reveals the deep bonds between humans and their habitat, between other peoples and ourselves. The installation inspires reflection on the value of safeguarding biological and cultural diversity for the future of humanity at a time when the global drive for limited resources continues unabated.
For 10 years, the Omo ecosystem and the people who depend on it have been threatened by a huge hydroelectric project made in Italy, and by the land grabbing that followed by agro-industrial farmers who want to grow cotton and sugarcane crops for export.
INFO:
OPENING TIMES: Mon 2.30 pm –7.30 pm Tue, Wed, Fri, Sun 9.30 am – 7.30 pm Thur, Sat 9.30 am –10.30 pm
ADMISSION: Free
Infoline: 0254917 (Mon-Fri 10.00am-5.00pm)
Schools: ufficiostampa@survival.it
or 02 8900671
Workshops by Survival International for high school students are available for free, in Italian. The case of the Omo River Valley and its peoples is the starting point for a guided activity for debating topics of development, land, climate change, individual and collective identities. The workshops are intended to stimulate reflection about the meaning and vital role of respect for diversity, and will follow the multidisciplinary vocation of the art project, pertaining to international law, geography, anthropology, philosophy and ecology.
Follow-up materials will be supplied by Survival International. For info and bookings: ufficiostampa@survival.it or 02-8900671.
