How can humanity live, together with this earth instead of against it? This question is at the core of what both City as Nature and FRIEC are doing.
City as Nature Festival, Osaka, Japan
Tag Archives: Art
One Minute of Dance a Day, at TNOC Summit
One of the One Minute of Dance a Day project. This dance was performed on the Sorbonne campus during the TNOC Summit, outside the main auditorium venue.
The Spirit of Dada: what is the nature of the city of our dreams?
The Singing Air
“…as if refusing to be caught / In any singular vision of my eye / Or in the nets and cages of my thought, / They tower up, shatter, and madden space / With their divergences, are each alone / Swallowed from sight.”— Richard Wilbur, An Event (excerpt) In the last weeks, my wife and I […]
Imagining Future Cities in an Age of Ecological Change
“ We have been working on a new book of global short (flash) fiction on future cities. Here it is: A Flash of Silver Green.” The guidelines of the prompt were very simple. Stories had to be set in a city in the distant future (i.e. in or near the year 2099), be 1,000 […]
French Landscape Painters and the Nature of Paris
A review of Masterpieces of French Landscape Paintings from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Moscow, an exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Art in Osaka, Japan. “Any exhibition that starts with an 18th century tree hugger has me on a hook.” If we learn anything from an exhibition such as “Masterpieces of French […]
Hearing from the Future of Cities
“What I like about this landscape is that it’s not painted… I can move around into it and feel it. I think about all the things I can find there. But, after I leave this picture, something always changes, and I do too.” —Gabriela Villate, 7 years old People see a face in the landscape, […]
Ramsar COP 13: What can Artists Contribute to Urban Wetland Restoration?
“Threats to wetlands include unsustainable urban development, pollution from cities, industry, agriculture, and invasive species, to name a few. But the biggest threat is one of perception.” The Ramsar Convention (also known as Convention on Wetlands) is the first of the major intergovernmental convention on biodiversity conservation and wise use. It was signed in 1971, […]
When a Korean Hillside Town Disappears, Who will Notice?
A review of “A Local Neighborhood Traveler,” an exhibition of painting and drawing by Korean artist Se Hee Kim at the Boroomsan Museum of Art in Gimpo, South Korea. On the outskirts of Seoul, tucked away into a traditional hillside garden is the Boroomsan Museum of Art. The museum sits on the edge of an […]
SALT: Restoration + Recreation = Water in California
“The Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland was created by visionary landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead whose designs “staged nature”. Our miniature tent in this setting considers the compromise between anthropogenic interests and non-human nature.” It is late June and we are up to our knees floating a small tent sculpture in a containment pond filled […]