03 Feb

Posted at 21:10h in CURATION

The first international trans-disciplinary conference / performance event to explore ecology and performance was BETWEEN NATURE at Lancaster University in 2000. It was co-curated by Wallace Heim in the Philosophy Department with colleagues in the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and the Theatre...

03 Feb

Posted at 19:48h in CURATION

Here. Now. These are the imperatives of performance. This is an exhibition of transformations. A performed work of art is a process through which something is transformed, some alteration is made during that live, transient experience. What may be changed is not so easily named....

03 Feb

Posted at 21:40h in CURATION

Institute for the Practice of Art & Dissent at Home and Spiderweb Tapestry In response to the poverty of language around sustainability, Wallace Heim asked artists, scientists, activists and cultural commentators to suggest a metaphor for sustainability. ...

03 Feb

Posted at 19:53h in CURATION

he Directory is an online magazine supporting performing arts engaging with ecological themes. It holds a database of theatre and performance productions from 1893. There are features, a news page and timeline. The associated blog is Ashdenizen, focusing more widely on culture and climate change....

03 Feb

Posted at 21:21h in CURATION

Wallace Heim organised the UK tour for Nora Bateson’s public talks and screenings of her film ‘An Ecology of Mind. A Daughter’s Portrait of Gregory Bateson’. The tour included London, Milton Keynes, Hull, Manchester, Bradford, Bristol, Dartington, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cambridge...