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YOU ARE HERE Introduction | Symposium Panels | Personnel | WASTE
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YOU ARE HERE EXHIBITIONS The first three You Are Here sponsored exhibitions listed below and the several satellite exhibitions at additional venues were highlighted during the WASTE conference. On Thursday November 8 summit attendees and students were transported between Chatham College, Carnegie Mellon University, Southside venues and the Children's Museum. On Saturday evening, the world premiere of Toxic Landscapes was featured at a reception at Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Use the links below to see documentation of these exhibitions as we build our post-symposium site. Curator's Statement September 11, 2001 In considering an introduction to You Are Here, we are confronted with the almost surreal events of this day--unfathomable acts of terrorism and violence at the cost of thousands of lives. Daily we turn away from wars raging, species and cultures disappearing, pollution rising and human health declining. What is the value of art is such a world? What can artists contribute to these deeply troubled times? Taking up cameras, computers, found and crafted materials, paint and pencil, imagination and organizing skills, the artists who comprise You Are Here bear witness to where we are and remind us of who we are. They invite us to see the world through our failings and our capacity for compassion and healing. It is our intent in presenting these exhibitions to the public and the WASTE summit that artists are recognized as active and engaged in the world, working along side their colleagues across disciplines to cultivate social and environmental change. Steffi Domike & Ann Rosenthal Unbound Ground, Brew House Space 101 November 2-24 The Brew House SPACE 101 features installations and discrete works by ten regional women artists. Engaging subjects ranging from the return of the mayfly to water conservation and consumption in Western Pennsylvania, each individual piece or collaboration explores the sometimes complementary and often contentious relationships between human and non-human nature. Participating artists include Sandra Budd, Shaila Christofferson, Steffi Domike, Stephanie Flom, Reiko Goto, Laleh Mehran, Constance Merriman, Suzi Meyer, Ann Rosenthal, and Cindy Snodgrass. A Natural Dialogue, Hunt Library 4th Fl., Carnegie Mellon October 7 -November 11 This exhibition presents a broad survey of public art projects that help us understand our relationship to our biosphere: Earth. The exhibition covers approaches to design that reveal our place within the natural laws of the planet, as well as art that serves to heal the damage that we have visited on natural systems. The exhibition begins with an historical perspective and moves to contemporary cross-disciplinary environmental art practices. Curated by sculptor Baile Oakes in 1994 from his book, Sculpting with the Environment: A Natural dialogue (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995) and produced by the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. In addition, art librarian Mo Dawley will complement this exhibition with selections from the library's collection of artists books that address environmental themes. Toxic Landscapes, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh October 11 -November 27 The world premiere of this traveling exhibiton features works by 75 US artists and a special collection from the photo archives of Greenpeace USA. It begins with the landscape, the damaged and the pristine, but also moves substantially beyond the genre to address issues of urban environmental racism, environmental justice, and environmental activism. This exhibition is sponsored and organized by the Puffin Foundation. This exhibition will open at the Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck, New Jersey on Sunday, January 6, 2pm.There will be a roundtable discussion on February 17, 2pm. Satellite Exhibitions and Events Global
Warning, Chatham College Gallery, Woodland Hall Students
respond to the environment. "Birdscape"
and "Displacement," Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, CMU Birdscape: A collaborative
installation by Chatham professor Michael Pestel and Jeroen van Westen
explores nature through sound, video, and performance. Displacement:
an installation composed of electronic and natural elements by CMU visiting
professor Simone Jones. Fall
Colors Across North America, The Carnegie Museum of Natural History Eco
Nights Sunday Evenings in October, Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Chatham College | Chatham Masters in Digital Technology | Rachel Carson Institute |
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