Participant at the Cambridge Sustainability Residency (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
31 March – 13 April, 2014
I am a selected artist for the Cambridge Sustainability Residency (CSRes), an international, cross-disciplinary, and artist-led project for artists addressing sustainability.
About the “Cambridge Sustainability Residency”:
From 31st March for 2 weeks, artists from as far away as Brazil will be converging on Cambridge to debate, discuss, and imagine ways of responding to the environmental challenges facing our planet.
The 14 selected artists encompass sculpture, moving image, photography, and installation.
The residency provides a forum for artists, scientists, and policymakers to research, explore, challenge, inform, and create together within a field common to their interests, producing responsive artworks and collaborations potentially extending beyond the timescale of the residency. The 2014 residency seeks to engage participants from a wider range of organizations, extend public involvement, and increase discussion around the topic, furthering the dissemination of information and thinking about art and the environment.
There will be organized visits to art places and a series of informative talks and activities that will aim to facilitate interaction between people from different disciplines such as Aid & Abet artist-run project, Wysing Arts Centre, Kettle’s Yard museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Sainsbury Laboratory dedicated to plant growth and development, soil expert Bob Evans, CamBake community bakery project, Trumpington orchard project, chicken coop and community garden, and beeswax and mending workshops.
Cambridge is the second fastest-growing city in the country by population growth, and the artist-led scene in Cambridge is also thriving.
Organized and run by artists Marina Velez and Russel with support from Cambridge School of Art (CSA) and the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI), a research institute within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU).
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