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SymbioticA - Adaptation on 2009-11-16

Adaptation

A SymbioticA Project at Lake Clifton, Western Australia

About Adaptation

With climate change hinting at catastrophic results to some life forms (while others may benefit) it is the capability to adapt which is an advantage for the future.

In a broad scoping of issues surrounding life and ecology, ‘Adaptation’, SymbioticA’s long term project, opens important dialogue and debate surrounding human inaction, intervention, responses and responsibilities to the world at large.

Embedded in Lake Clifton, south of Mandurah, Western Australia, ‘Adaptation’ proposes a dynamic program of production-based artist residencies and events with a vibrant outreach and community program. Lake Clifton, as a location and a metaphor, offers a microcosmic peak into the broader issues of ecology and life itself. Download the Adaptation PDF

Research areas may include, but are not limited to:
• historical importance of the thrombolites in evolution
• the area’s cultural history
• endangered migratory birds, fauna and flora
• environmental listing and protection
• the contradictory nature of agriculture and ecology
• global warming and its effects
• developmental impacts
• evolution of animal species
• stability and salinity of the lake’s water
• the network and interactions between the community, governmental bodies, scientific groups, action groups, businesses, land owners/dwellers and key cultural groups
• nuclear reactor site potential
• bio-prospecting
• the parallel between one of the fastest growing Australian regional cities to one of the slowest growing lifeforms
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- Desalination Project
  One of the major threats to the survival of the thrombolites is the increase in salinity of the lake, due to the decline in rainfall. The De-Salination Plant will be a kinetic sculpture that will use technological advances to circumvent the lake (or at least a smaller scale pool of the lake water) from the effects of climate change and urban development. The SymbioticA Research Group will combine scientific and ecological knowledge to create a sprawling public sculpture that may promise the lake’s salvation by acting as a minidesalination plant.

Crash - Centre for Research in Art, Science and Humanity on 2009-11-16
Eco-artists' project challenges audience on 2009-11-14
- Early eco-art projects included the 1970s "Serpentine Lattice" by Californians Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, who were among artists commissioned to create a project for "Groundworks"
Paradigms on the Move: The Groundworks Monongahela Conference on 2009-11-14
- Their approaches differ, but recurring ingredients in their plans include research, negotiation, marketing, program planning, collaborative community artwork making, poetry, photography, design, video, interviews, sculpture and more. The common denominator was a sense of inspiring a reconsideration of the particular environment’s identity and future as it relates to the residential, industrial, economic and social identity.
- To help McKeesport imagine itself as a thriving place where people want to work and live, and to instill local pride about rich natural and social resources, we created a fictional tourist brochure set in 2020, after McKeesport had won the coveted 2018 Urban Conservation Excellence Award.
Chautauqua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 2009-11-14
- Chautauqua (pronounced /ʃəˈtɔːkwə/ in the IPA; or, in informal US transcription, "sha- TAW- kwa") is an adult education movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s. The Chautauqua brought entertainment and culture for the whole community, with speakers, teachers, musicians, entertainers, preachers and specialists of the day.
Groundworks - Regina Gouger Miller Gallery on 2009-11-14
- The exhibition will feature documentation from a series of long-term residency
  projects in which national and regional artists worked collaboratively with the
  residents of communities and neighborhoods in the Monongahela river valley through
  3 Rivers 2nd Nature.
- The exhibit, which also features a large
  media component including video and computer-based projects, should be of interest
  to fans of contemporary art as well as anyone with a desire to challenge their
  preconceptions about the natural world and our relationship to it,” said
  Kester.
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- - The gallery aspires to engage diverse audiences, to
    create and strengthen communities through art, and to stimulate, provoke and
    encourage contemplation of the visual arts of our times.
Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University on 2009-11-14
Mad Scientist | GOOD on 2009-11-13
- Have you recently experienced a heightened awareness of environmental concerns? Common symptoms may include: nausea, depression, feelings of helplessness, and increased fear of the words “polar,” “ice,” and “caps.” While there is as yet no cure for this condition, specialist Dr. Natalie Jeremijenko, of NYU’s Environmental Health Clinic, might be able to help. Since the clinic’s launch in February, Dr. Jeremijenko, along with her trained assistants, has been addressing the environmental anxieties of its visitors.
- “What differs,” says Jeremijenko, “is that you walk out with a prescription not for pharmaceuticals, but for actions and … referrals to interesting art, design, and participatory projects.”
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- - “Have you ever noticed the flaccidness of the ‘what you can do’ screen at the end of rousing documentaries like An Inconvenient Truth? Translating environmental issues into health concerns makes them more tangible, manageable, and measurable,” says Jeremijenko. “How many petitions is a person really willing to sign?”
01SJ » Blog Archive » Rising North on 2009-11-12
- Rising North
  
  Jane Marsching
  
  Rising North, 2008
  
  01SJ Biennial: Superlight
  
  San Jose Museum of Art
  
  May 10 – August 31, 2008
  
  How can we make sense of the climate change predictions in the news? What does a seven degree temperature rise in the Arctic really mean? How do we absorb scientific information into our everyday lives?
  
  Rising North takes monthly temperature readings from the North Pole data buoys and visualizes the rise in temperature of 7 degrees Celsius over a century (until 2107) that some climatologists predict for the region. Standard temperature color choices range from pale blue at –37 degrees to warm orange at 9 degrees. The audio combines background shortwave frequency static with the voice of an opera singer singing the top headlines from Google News about the North Pole on March 21, 2007.
YProductions on 2009-11-12
- Research no longer is practiced in insular labs, but spreads across disciplines and hierarchies. Responding to this phenomenon, which makes so much sense, I am interested in Pierre Huyghe's notion of an aesthetics of alliances, which to me translates to creating communities or nodes of interest in which parallel, connected, conversant practices overlap, and occassionally converge to create multiple products, be they art, academic research, scientific research, consumer products, or other cultural productions."

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