[artinfo] Hard Realities and the New Materiality - symposium at CEU

[Center for Arts and Culture]

Dear All,

You are cordially invited to the forthcoming
 
Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art
Hard Realities and the New Materiality

The 2009 edition of Sustainability and Contemporary Art brings together
artists, theorists and environmental activists to investigate the
implications of hard realities and new materiality for political action,
artistic theory and practice, and sustainable living in the 21st
century.

2 -6 pm 26 March 2009

Central European University - Auditorium
Nádor utca 9, Budapest 1051

For booking details see:
www.translocal.org/sustainability

Speakers
Marina Gržinić (Vienna/Ljubljana): Sustainability and Capital
Tamás St.Auby (Budapest): The Subsistence Level Standard Project 1984
W.
Tadzio Müller (Berlin): Its economic growth, stupid! On climate change,
mad-eyed moderates and realistic radicals
Janek Simon (Krakow): How to Make a Digital Handwatch at Home 
Sebastjan Leban (Ljubljana): Silent Weapon of Extermina
Alina Asavei (Budapest, CEU): Sustainable Aesthetics: Contextual and
Ethical Beauty
Alan Watt (Budapest, CEU) Sustainability in the Face of Hard Reality 
Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Translocal): The Environmental Impact of
Contemporary Art

Organisers 
The programme of the Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art
is devised by Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Translocal.org) and co-organised
with the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy and the Centre
for Arts and Culture at Central European University. 

Supporters
Central European University, Department of Environmental Sciences and
Policy CEU, Centre for Arts and Culture CEU, Polish Institute Budapest

With kind regards,
Lilla

Lilla Földy
Coordinator
Center for Arts and Culture
Central European University
Address: Nádor u 9., Budapest 1051
Office: Zrinyi 14 Bldg, room#602
Phone: +36 1 327 3000 (ext. 2697)
Website: www.cac.ceu.hu