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.
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Network members PartnersArtists Imagine 2020
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Venues/Festivals Artistic programme Day to day business Artists
Content Produce & present differently
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Partners Imagine 2020 Core Funding/Policy making EU Culture
Programme/EACEA Municipal/Regional/National Projects/ Project
Funding Tipping Point, ADEME British Council, Goethe Institut ONGs:
Greenpeace, Oxfam
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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 didnt take some account,
in some way, of whats happening to our climate. Art is not only
about beauty: sometimes it has to warn. Philip Pullman ART and
Climate Change?
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A European network Why? Supporting each other to play a leading
role locally Different types of performing arts organisations
Performing Arts & Climate Change = Unexplored area Creating a
European voice Exchange of information and sharing experiences
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6 partners 4 countries 2 years (June 2008 May 2010) Budget: 467
865 EU: 200 000 Kaaitheater Brussels (BE) Thtre Le Quai Angers (FR)
Domaine dO Montpellier (FR) LIFT London (GB) Artsadmin London (GB)
Bunker Ljubljana (SI) The 2020 network : Thin Ice
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
COMMENT? Actions create commissions co-productions presentation
of existing work (festivals, throughout the season) artists who act
as agents for change
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COMMENT? Actions connect connections with scientists, policy
makers, civil society leaders local national european
worldwide
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COMMENT? Actions learn & exchange shared concepts analysis
of activities sharing of research results and experiences learning
activities summer academies resource centre web-site
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COMMENT? Actions communicate & document dissemination of
results strategic internal and external communication joint
documentation of activities > create a cultural memory
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Crer Artists Stans Cafe (UK) / Kate MCIntosh (NZ) / The
Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (UK) / Vertical Dtour
(Frdric 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 Mnard, (FR) / Rachid Ouramdane (FR) /Jan
Ritsema (BE) Create
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Ackroyd/Harvey
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Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker Keeping Still (2008) The Song (2009)
3 Abschied (2010) Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
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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
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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)