The Hub
The Hub
Connecting creativity to social change
If we're going to move the arts' response to climate change forward we need to create inclusive environments, to exchange ideas and avoid duplicating our work unnecessarily. With that in mind, welcome to the RSA Arts and Ecology Centre Hub.
This is a place where artists, academics, campaigners and organisations working on responses to climate change can connect, share resources and information, and find new ways to work together.
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Opportunities
Call to artists in North/East London
1mile² provides an opportunity for a contemporary artist local to Waltham Forest to work with participants in a collaborative investigation of arts, biodiversity and community. 1mile² Waltham Forest is being delivered by Visiting Arts in partnership with Waltham Forest Borough Council.
Call to artists in Dehli and Dhaka
1mile² offers a residency providing an opportunity for a contemporary artist from either Delhi or Dhaka to be based in Waltham Forest, London for 8-10 weeks to develop their artistic practice through a collaborative investigation of arts, biodiversity and community.
Mercosul | Call for submissions
The 7th Mercosul Bienial is asking for submissions of work which can be transmitted in some form via the internet. Under the banner of "Projectables", they're looking for work that includes projections into the future - which opens a door for artists whose work is looking into the changed world.
Reading List
Wonderful: Visions of the Near Future
This travelling exhibition explored collaborations between artists and scientists. 'Wonderful' investigates science within a broad cultural and philosophical framework, inviting visitors to consider their own attitudes to ethical issues emerging from current developments in technology and scientific research.
Arrested Rivers
Paintings by Chuck Forsman with essays and poems by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Roger C. Echo-Hawk, Gary Holthuas, and Charles Wilkinson.
Fragile Ecologies: Contemporary Artists’ Interpretations and Solutions.
Fragile Ecologies was a travelling exhibition that focused on activist, environmentally oriented art, and the role of artists as agents of change. It brought together material documenting the work of a dozen ecology-minded artists, or artist groups, working in diverse environments and situations.
Latest Blog Posts
Gustav Metzger: artists“taking moral standpoints”
Forty-eight years ago today, Gustav Metzger took a bottle of hydrochloric acid to the South Bank and set about destroying suspended sheets of nylon in an act of what he called Auto-Destructive painting. For Metzger, whose personal world view was formed in the shadow of World War II, this was ...
Tim Smit: sustainability as“hippy shit”
Yesterday I was at the Sustainable Development Commission Breakthrough Ideas For the 21st Century event in London. Ed Miliband came and gave a nice speech, the gist of which was,“We know you don't think we're doing enough, but we're doing as much as is possibly achievable.” Afterwards we all ...
Ed Miliband’s summer reading
Ed Miliband's summer reading from RSA Arts&Ecology on Vimeo.It was Robert Butler of the Ashden Directory who spotted what Ed Miliband had tucked under his arm as he came to announce the winners of the first TippingPoint Commision awards...