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current global environmental economic and social problems the other main objective was to provide a broader platform for artistic positions that emphasize sustainability and offer alternative lifestyles maja and reuben fowkes were invited to give the opening speech at the vernissage learn more unruly elements ecologies of post socialism guest lecture by maja and reuben fowkes at the university of the arts london 24 march 2021 at the height of stalinism as its representation in socialist realist art also suggests nature was considered not only as an unlimited resource for extracting the future of socialism but also as a class enemy that needed to be kept under strict control this presentation considers how attitudes and practices towards the natural world formed during the era of the socialist anthropocene were transformed over the course of the post communist transition learn more rivers as agents of change guest lecture by maja and reuben fowkes at the museum of contemporary art belgrade 4 march 2021 unlearning industrial modernity s domineering attitude towards nature joining campaigns for fluvial rights to the social struggles of rural urban migrant and indigenous communities living along riverbanks and celebrating the resurgence of hidden waterways within the city artists articulate the common demand to stop seeing rivers as moving parts in the capitalist machine and recognise them instead as legal persons spiritual beings and hydrological agents with the ability to shape histories and environments learn more the politics and ecology of invasive species a changing climate for pioneering plants chapter by maja and reuben fowkes in the routledge companion to contemporary art visual culture and climate change edited by t j demos emily eliza scott subhankar banerjee february 2021 intervening in the entangled domains of politics science and ecology artists have challenged the demonization of so called invasive species uncovered complex histories of their redistribution and engendered collaborative scenarios in which the agency of non native pioneers is released to restore and revivify devastated post industrial environments request pdf art history in climate change paper by maja and reuben fowkes on climate migration invasive species in the political imaginary at the online conference on art history in climate change at courtauld institute of art london 25 6 june 2020 considering the demonization of invasive species in cold war ecologies and in the contemporary era learn more conference diplomacy an online seminar hosted by ias ucl to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the points east conference on east european art in december 1990 the third eye centre in glasgow brought together 138 artists curators critics art historians museum directors and officials from the uk and eastern europe for an ambitious conference to consider the implications for the arts of the dramatic political and economic changes brought by the fall of the berlin wall learn more no art on a dead planet text by maja and reuben fowkes published in barricading the ice sheets artists and climate action in the age of irreversible decision vienna camera austria 2020 considering the extent to which artistic engagement with ecological activism should also be seen as part of a wider transformation of the artworld in which curatorial and institutional innovations also play an essential part learn more floral collectivism video presentation on south eastern plant epistemologies in relation to alexandra pirici s research project describing in movement observing through embodiment this talk addresses the importance of symbiotic relationships in nature and how to translate the complexity of plant ways of being into a form that is accessible within the limited spectrum of human perception learn more points east an artworld city and continent in transformation this performance lecture by maja and reuben fowkes revisits points east from the distance of a generation reconstructing the original exchanges to provoke contemporary reflections and debate on a little known but critical moment in artistic cultural and political history learn more unsalvagable futures of the debrisphere the assemblage of natural and human histories that constitute the debrisphere did not emerge as a symbiotic growing together of living and non living matter but rather through the force of a violent collision text for artists anca benera and arnold estefan s debrisphere landscape as an extension of the military imagination 2019 learn more biopolitics of the plasticene panel discussion exploring artistic interventions in a plasticised world with amanda boetzkes and diana lelonek how have artists utilised the materiality of plastics to investigate the breakdown of the division between the synthetic and the natural the emergence of hybrid forms and the extent of the adaptability of living organisms to plasticised environments learn more confrontations blog part iii an collective blog of the first three meetings of confrontations sessions in east european art history which took place in zagreb and ljubljana in march 2019 in prague brno and bratislava in september 2019 and warsaw and lodz in february 2020 learn more emergency democracy for post glacial landscapes text by maja and reuben fowkes for along ecological lines contemporary art and climate crisis 2019 an edited volume that brings together essays interviews and case studies examining the work and ideas of a range of environmentally engaged artists working in europe today learn more decolonising central european nature műcsarnok exhibition histories text by maja and reuben fowkes published in the hungarian art history journal ars hungarica examining the processes of the colonisation and decolonisation of nature as they are present in the art history and contemporary art of central europe it takes as a case study the exhibition histories of curatorial engagements with nature themes at the budapest kunsthalle from the 1950s to today learn more raising the ecological emergency flag text for the publication of the jindřich chalupecký award exhibition 2019 on homegrown civic movements that raised environmental protest to the level of systemic social change in response to the urgency of climate chaos learn more confrontations sessions in east european art history this program investigates the entangled histories of east european art through a series of itinerant symposia held at pertinent locations across and beyond the region by staging encounters between contrasting aesthetic and critical positions and creating conditions for comparative insights to crystallise these sessions aim to instigate more rigorous and integrated accounts of east european art history acknowledging the singularity of individual practices the multi directional flow of artistic exchange and the generative effects of local circumstances this transnational initiative is a contribution to an emergent global history of art from the second world war till today learn more socialist artworlds this special issue of third text on actually existing artworlds of socialism is an attempt to delineate the characteristic features of the art scenes of eastern europe during the 1960s and 1970s it is premised on the idea that artistic life in eastern europe was profoundly shaped by the structures conventions and workings of the overarching system with artists and critics compelled to negotiate the often productive contradictions of actually existing socialism with an introduction by maja and reuben fowkes and contributions from hana buddeus daniel grúň candice hamelin marko ilić raino isto zsuzsa lászló armin medosch tomáš pospiszyl alina șerban sonja simonyi tomasz załuski learn more turbulent geohistories of sugar presentation of artist ilona németh s eastern sugar project on the post communist decline of the slovak sugar beet industry with interventions by spatial practitioners cooking sections daniel fernández pascual alon schwabe and art historian leon wainwright open university moderated by maja and reuben fowkes translocal institute pact ucl learn more creative time main stage presentation and breakout session at the creative time summit in miami november 2018 our ten minutes in the limelight focused on the danube river school with a longer session on plant patriotism at the pérez art museum the following day learn more mutating ecologies chapter based on a keynote lecture on feeling the curve of the earth deviant democracies and ecological uncertainties in mutating ecologies in contemporary art published by the university of barcelona in 2019 learn more intentionally contemporary catalogue text entitled intentionally contemporary expanded horizons of the hungarian neo avant garde for bookmarks revisiting hungarian art of the 1960s and 1970s koenig books 2019 offering a comprehensive panorama of a two decade period of hungarian art learn more sensing rivers experimental reading room for arts catalyst london s test sites assembly programme looking at fluviocentric texts and artworks that explore sensual approaches to the river to connect with its non human agency histories and ecologies learn more experimental reading room the experimental reading room creates a space to interact experiment learn and dream our way to a new orientation towards ecological awareness in contemporary art and society based around a parallel program of degrowth lectures by prominent international thinkers and thematic study circles the project is designed to engender the self production of socially embedded theoretically informed and practically oriented knowledge in the vital field of art and ecology iterations included a two year programme at translocal institute and guest events curated by maja and reuben fowkes in vienna glasgow and london learn more the river school the river school was a series of study days workshops symposia and exhibitions conceived to engage with the danube as a transforming natural environment with a long history of human intervention a route of transnational flows and migrations a focus for ecological concern that spills over into civic action and a magnet for diverse artistic and cultural reflections curated by maja and reuben fowkes this two year project was realised within the framework of the green art lab alliance gala with the support of the culture programme of the european union and resulted also in a number of publications and presentations learn more moma anthology text on the post national in east european art from socialist internationalism to transnational communities in art and theory of post 1989 central and eastern europe a critical anthology published by moma new york 2018 learn more doublespeak chapter entitled liberty controlled institutional settings of the east european neo avant garde in doublespeech hungarian art of the 1960s and 1970s published by thames hudson in 2018 learn more translocal at the ica the experimental reading room was a three day participatory seminar space at institute for contemporary art ica london as part of in formation s orientation towards the future and new forms of commonality learn more feral incursions a two day intensive exploring the polyvalent theoretical and practical facets of the feral through art politics and ecology organized by the environmental arts and humanities initiative eah at central european university budapest learn more geohumanities paper on the primeval cosmic river and its ecological realities on the curatorial project danube river school in geohumanities uncovering the environmental history of the danube featuring river centered artistic practices and investigating the potential for an integrated ecological future were at the core of this interdisciplinary curatorial project learn more socialist performance replaced chapter on re enactment as a critical strategy in contemporary east european art published in performance art in the second public sphere by routledge in 2018 learn more ecological futures this experimental reading took as its focus attempts within both environmental thought and contemporary art to imagine the ecological future these range from visualisations of technocratic dystopias in which all the worst predications of environmental disaster come true to the wished for emergence of sustainable communities thriving in a new age of planetary consciousness learn more river ecologies challenging anthropocentric conventions that seek to harness the river for economic cultural and political purposes river ecologies places the complex ecological materiality of the danube at the centre of artistic and scholarly attention learn more environmental arts and humanities initiative the environmental arts and humanities initiative aims to create a common platform for academic researchers artists and ecological activists creatively negotiating planetary issues at the intersection between scientific and humanities based approaches to the environment based at central european university and co founded by maja and reuben fowkes its programme includes conferences workshops film screenings presentations and a team taught environmental arts and humanities course learn more vegetal mediations rather than mere passive bystanders to history plants act as agents mediating relations both among people and between people and their environments knowledge markets and politics as well as serving as go betweens in non human spheres this conference explores the response of artists writers and theorists to manifestations of plant agency considered through vegetal non cognitive thought and non representational memory plant ethics and rights and the relationship of humans and plants in the anthropocene learn more globalisation of plants workshop and panel discussion led by maja and reuben fowkes at tendepixel london conveived as an afternoon of botanic interactions on the ecological realities of travelling plants and the emotional reactions that vegetal migration provokes in zealous circles learn more synthetic wilderness lecture by maja and reuben fowkes at nasuti festival bratislava a two day event in september 2018 at the nova cvernovka complex designed to create a platform for initiatives operating in the field of art culture ecology and sustainability learn more ecologies of post internet seminar for the environmental arts and humanities initiative on the reflexive ecologies of post internet art with joana moll inga lāce and áron fenyvesi introduced by maja and reuben fowkes learn more destressed tree site specific installation by polonca lovšin for the nasuti art and ecology festival that speaks of more than human communication and care learn more on east european art one of two interviews with maja and reuben fowkes published in mezosfera focusing on the post and de colonial dimensions of east european art and history learn more working with trouble maja fowkes s text on working with trouble the reassembled lands...