IMAGINE 2020ART &

CLIMATE CHANGE

Imagine 2020

Artists and the cultural sector can and must play an important role in creating awareness of the causes and effects of climate change and contribute to the necessary cultural shift needed if we want to maintain hope for a sustainable future.

Imagine 2020

Imagine 2020

Imagine 2020

Core Funding/Policy makingEU Culture Programme/EACEAMunicipal/Regional/National

Projects/ Project FundingTipping Point, ADEMEBritish Council, Goethe InstitutONGs: Greenpeace, Oxfam

“Artists of every kind have one overriding moral duty, which is to do their work as well as possible. But since that work partly consists of responding to what the world itself is up to, it would be strange if the best work being produced didn’t take some account, in some way, of what’s happening to our climate. Art is not only about beauty: sometimes it has to warn.” – Philip Pullman

ART and Climate Change?

A European network

6 partners4 countries2 years (June 2008 – May 2010) Budget: € 467 865 EU: €200 000

Kaaitheater Brussels (BE)

Théâtre Le Quai Angers (FR)Domaine d’O Montpellier (FR)LIFT London (GB)Artsadmin London (GB) Bunker Ljubljana

(SI)

The 2020 network : Thin Ice

11 partners9 countries5 years (July 2010 – June 2015) Budget: € 4,427,510 EU: € 2,213,754

Thin Ice Partners +R’damse Schouwburg Rotterdam (NL)Kampnagel Hamburg (DE)Transforma Torres Vedras (PT)Domino Zagreb (HR)NTIL Riga (LV)

2020 network: IMAGINE 2020

• To inform and support a generation of artists, working in Europe, who engage creatively with climate change

• To create a step change in the performing arts working across Europe and internationally in environmentally sustainable ways

• Creative exchanges between practices of art and science across Europe

• To create a greater awareness of climate change and a desire for positive action amongst a European public

Objectives

Imagine 2020

COMMENT? Actions

createcommissionsco-productionspresentation of existing work (festivals, throughout the season)

artists who act as agents for change

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connect

connections with scientists, policy makers, civil society leaders

localnationaleuropean worldwide

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learn & exchang

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shared conceptsanalysis of activities sharing of research results and experiences

learning activitiessummer academiesresource centreweb-site

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communicate&

document

dissemination of resultsstrategic internal and external communication joint documentation of activities > create a cultural memory

Créer

ArtistsStan’s Cafe (UK) / Kate MCIntosh (NZ) / The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (UK) / Vertical Détour (Frédéric Ferrer) (FR) / Rosas – A.T. De Keersmaeker (BE) / Collectif Argos (FR) / Lulu Baladart (FR) / Eva Meyer-Keller (DE) / Kris Verdonck (BE) / Martin Nachbar (DE) / Jeroen Peeters (BE) / SPACE (NL) / Pierre Lafon & Hiromi Koshiwagi (FR/JP) / Richard Dedomenici (UK) / Bart Vandeput – Bartaku (BE) / Tanja Radez (SI) / Ricky Seabra (BR) / Nina Bozic (SI) / Camille Boitel (FR) / Marko Jastrevski (HR) Amy Sharrocks (UK) / Lemn Sissay (UK ) / Alexander Nieuwenhuis (NL) / Platform (UK) / Emergency Exit Arts (UK) / Tretaroka (SL) / Ishrat Nishat (BD) / Cape Farewell (UK) / Gosie Vervloessem (BE) / Angelo Vermeulen (BE) / Ackroyd & Harvey (UK) / Via Negativa (SI) / Rosa Casado & Mike Brookes (ES/UK) / Elena Fajt (SI) / Phia Ménard, (FR) / Rachid Ouramdane (FR) /Jan Ritsema (BE) …

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Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

Keeping Still (2008)The Song (2009)3 Abschied (2010)

Anne – Teresa de Keersmaeker

Keeping Still (2008)

‘We decided on Mahler's Song of the Earth (because of) the feelings which this music evoked in me of the desert and of emptiness. I had wanted for a long time to make a piece which would do justice to my concern with the planet and with what is happening to the planet. Keeping Still, part 1 gives an impetus to thinking about ecology. But I don't know what will come after.’ - Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

The Song (2009)

The Song is a piece that bespeaks the imminence of a time when our ever-increasing speed of change out-runs itself. In this acceleration towards stillness, as humans consume Earth's last remaining natural resources and the physical body as we know it races towards its own obsolescence, necessary radical shifts in momentum, direction and values question what belongs to the past and what belongs to the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbJTpeO5DIo

The Song (2009)