Eco sapiens

SCANZ 2011

by Intercreate Team

Published on 10/08/2009

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Extinction or adaptation? Evolution or Revolution? What are we facing?

The complexity and urgency of the crises of today calls for us to engage together in new ways. Deep shifts in our consciousness may be required for long-term cultural changes to occur.

A symposium followed by a residency is to be held late January to early February 2011 in New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. The deadlines for both the initial and the second call for expressions of interest has passed. We however invite you to join us in New Plymouth for the symposium in January, 2010.

Symposium

The SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens symposium will be an event involving individuals from a number of different worlds (e.g scientists, artists, social activists and community change agents, cultural commentators, educators, tangata whenua). Our primary aim is to facilitate connections and foster innovative, and practical solutions to the issues we are facing. Accordingly, a mixture of presentations, discussions, informal exchanges and workshops are planned. Roger Malina will be presenting from France on ‘Open observatories’, and Te Huirangi Waikerepuru will speak on Maori conceptions of environment. The symposium will inspire and inform the residency that follows, and also provide opportunities for people to collaborate on projects beyond SCANZ.

Residency

The SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens two week residency is designed for those individuals or groups who would like to work on creative, poetically pragmatic or provocative projects which raise awareness of the issues that confront us, generate connections between people, and with their natural environment, and which grapple with the challenges of individual and collective evolution.

Interdisciplinary approaches and the involvement of diverse groups is welcomed. Residency projects are to take place in variety of spaces in and around the city, including a wirelessly networked botanic garden, along the region’s coastline and within it’s communities. Networked, DIY, or otherwise actively and openly distributed concepts are also encouraged. Some preparations are also being made for those interested to participate remotely.

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ecosapiens@intercreate.org

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Intercreate.org and the Eco sapiens event is being organised by a team of people including Ian Clothier, Nina Czegledy, Maggie Buxton, Grant Corbishley and Trudy Lane.

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Intercreate.org is a project based research centre which consists of an international network of people interested in interdisciplinary creativity. Project foci include interdisciplinary projects, education initiatives and residencies. Intercreate is a not-for-profit trust that is registered with the Charities Commmission of New Zealand.

About SCANZ
Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ) is New Zealand’s premier art and technology event and involves a symposium, artist residency, and public exhibition. It occurs every two years, and has typically involved a mix of Aotearoa New Zealand and international artists, producers, theorists and curators many of whom are leading practitioners. Held in New Plymouth, SCANZ 2011 will be the third event.

SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens
A symposium followed by a residency is to be held late January to early February 2011 in New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. It seeks to bring a range of knowledge groups together to investigate the cultural roots of climate change and seek out poetically pragmatic approaches to encouraging the cultural and behavioural shifts required. Initial expressions of interest are due 21 November, 2009. Please see here for more details.

SCANZ 2009 international participants included Nina Czegledy, Brett Stalbaum, Sally Jane Norman, Jacques Sirot, Sarah Cook, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Dan Torop, Melinda Rackham and Dominic Smith of The Polytechnic. Participants based in New Zealand included Lisa Reihana, Stella Brennan, Sean Kerr, Rachel Rakena, Natalie Robertson, Danny Butt, Herman Pi’ikea Clarke, Alex Monteith, Naomi Lamb, Caro McCaw, Jon Bywater, Julian Priest (UK/NZ) and many others.

Occurring along side the 2009 residency was a two day symposium (February 7 and 8), presentation evening & exhibition (opened February 7), and curatorial workshop.

Intercreate.org gratefully acknowledges the support and partnerships of:

Creative New Zealand

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

Puke Ariki

Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT)

TSB Community Trust

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Phosphor Essence Ltd.