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Tuesday 26 June 2007, Michaela Crimmin at the Barbican

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RSA Head of Arts, Michaela Crimmin gave a talk at the Barbican Centreas part of the Education Programme for Marjetica Potrc's Forest Rising exhibition at the Barbican Curve Gallery.

11 & 12 December 2006, No Way Back

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No Way Back? A two-day international conference organised by the RSA in partnership with Arts Council England and the London School of Economics and Political Science brought together an audience of 300 to hear speakers from 11 countries explore the depths of global ecological crisis, to see if artists can help us navigate the complexity of the issues.

Peter Head and Shanfeng Dong in conversation
Gustav Metzger
Doreen Heng Liu
Questions for artist
Q&A on China
Jeremy Deller on bats
John Jordan
Tue Greenfort
Marjetica Potrc
Maria Thereza Alves
The Two Degrees Show
Jeremy Deller interview

Culture in a time of conflict

10th Jun 2008; 18:00

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With artist David Cotterrell and writer Andrew O'Hagan

Chair: Dr Mark Nash, Head of Department for Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art.

The fourth event in this series will explore the environmental footprint of war from an arts perspective. The makers of the film Scarred Lands described the environment as the silent casualty of war. War carries many environmental implications and resource depletion is increasingly engendering conflict. Michael Klare painted a terrifying picture of 'the new landscape of global conflict' in his book Resource Wars. How are artists responding to these challenges and what is their perspective on war?

In November last year David Cotterrell spent three weeks with the Royal Army Medical Corps and Royal Marine Commandos for a residency supported by the Wellcome Trust at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province.

This military perspective was recently complimented by a second trip to Afghanistan, this time through civilian eyes, on an Arts & Ecology residency in Kabul, Afghanistan with Turquoise Mountain. During his time in Kabul he had the opportunity to engage and work with artists, craft makers and art students both at Kabul University and Turquoise Mountain's Centre for Traditional Afghan Art and Architecture in Kabul.

For his recent collection of essays, The Atlantic Ocean, writer Andrew O'Hagan researched the lives of two infantrymen, one British and one American, who died on the same night in Iraq. Many of O'Hagan's novels have voiced issues surrounding conflict and he has also written numerous articles exploring the ethics of war.

Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction. He joined the prestigious Robert Burns Humanitarian Award judging panel this year and has recently returned from Palestine where he participated in the Palestine Festival of Literature.

28 November 2008, Nuclear Forum

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Part I

Part II

Part III

NUCLEAR FORUM
Artists and activists debate nuclear energy in the 21st century

In partnership with The Arts Catalyst and SCAN, Arts & Ecology held a forum at the RSA on Friday 28 November 2008 (10am to 6pm) exploring the impact of nuclear power in art and culture. Nuclear power is re-emerging as a a major modern issue, both in terms of generation of energy, and as part of defence strategies. Today it seems to stand both for the failed utopian promises of modernism and a fresh hope for a carbon-free future. The contradictions that lie at its core have provided a rich source of questioning for artists, scientists, ecologists and activists for many years.

13 January 2009, Chico Mendes Legacy Lecture

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Chico Mendes Legacy Lecture

On 13 January 2009 RSA Arts & Ecology teamed up with the Young Vic and People’s Palace Projects to present a lively encounter programmed to coincide with Amazonia, the theatre’s latest extraordinary production inspired by the life and legacy of world-famous environmental activist, Chico Mendes, who was assassinated because of his political views in December 1988. The event explored deforestation, the role that the arts play in environmental activism today and asked how the arts can help shift society’s attitudes in the face of unprecedented climate change.

24th Jun 2009; 18:00 Seeing Myself See: The Ecology of Mind

Experimental neuroscientist Beau Lotto shows how our perception and conception of the world reflects our past physical, social and cultural interactions.