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Chornobyl: Artists Respond

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY, United States

In cooperation with The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) in Chicago, Art at the Institute presents a special exhibition of original prints commemorating the thirty-first anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Organized by Walter Hoydysh, PhD, Curator and Director of Art at the Institute, and Stanislav Grezdo, Curator at UIMA, the exhibition frames thirty works on paper…

Film: Plastic Planet

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City, NY, United States

Join us for our monthly film evening. Venturing on a journey around the globe - from the Moroccan Sahara to the highest peaks of the Alps, Plastic Planet investigates the far-flung reach of plastic in modern society. This film screening is part of the project Wunderbar: A Celebration of German Film. From Beloved Sisters to A Coffee in Berlin and Young Goethe in Love, from The Blue Angel to The Cabinet of…

Film: “Erde” (“Earth”), part of the CALA Fall 2019 film series “Fragile Earth: Environmental Films Around the World”

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

As part of the CALA Fall 2019 film series "Fragile Earth: Environmental Films Around the World,” the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a screening of the documentary film "Erde" ("Earth"), 2019, directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. The introduction will be held by Nandini Thiyagarajan. About the film: Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with…

Rehearsal for Truth 2019: Hungarian Acacia (Hungary)

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York, NY, United States

PRESENTATION OF PERFORMANCE PROJECTS, DISCUSSION. Engaging, behind-the-scenes glimpse at "Hungarian Acacia" and other performance projects conceived to address the public discourse in Hungary in a satirical way. Artists-directors Kristof Kelemen and Bence Gyorgy Palinkas will discuss their creative practice and working methods and show footage of Hungarian Acacia iterated as a live event as well as an onstage re-enactment of…

CALA Fall 2019 Film Series | Fragile Earth: Environmental Films Around the World Screening of “When Two Worlds Collide”

KJCC Auditorium 53 Washington Square South, New York

Environmental Films Around the World Screening of “When Two Worlds Collide” 2016 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 43m By Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel. Introduced by Odi Gonzalex, NYU CLACS. From population growth and urbanization to climate change, the films in this series present different perspectives on the biggest threats to the environment and reflect on possible solutions and pathways for…

Festival Albertine 2019: The Climate Moment

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

At this point in human and geological history, dealing with climate chaos is a race: can we move fast enough to prevent civilization-scale collapse? —Bill McKibben Festival Albertine 2019, curated by environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, will take on climate change. For three days, leading thinkers, politicians, activists, artists, and authors will come together to discuss the urgency to act,…

Art and the Anthropocene: A Talk by Claus Leggewie

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a talk by Professor Claus Leggewie (University of Giessen) on "Art and the Anthropocene," in which he will discuss the changes brought on by the new geological age of the Anthropocene and its impact on culture and the arts. About the event: Scientists argue that earth history has entered the Anthropocene, a geological age in which…

Tomorrow (Demain) – Documentary Film Screening and Q&A

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

The Center of Applied Liberal Arts (CALA) at the School of Professional Studies (SPS) and the Department of French Literature, Thought, and Culture present a screening of the film Tomorrow (Demain) hosted by filmmaker and scholar Leonard Cortana. Tomorrow is a French documentary about what individuals around the world are doing to help fight current environmental problems. It is being shown as part of CALA's international…

Price Tags for Wet Land: Resource-making in Late Imperial Russia (with Katja Bruisch)

In late imperial Russia, rising demand for energy and widespread concerns about the depletion of forests caused an interest in peat as an industrial fuel. In the booming industrial districts of the Vladimir and Moscow provinces in particular, factory owners adopted peat fuel to fire furnaces and operate engines, while railroad operators made experiments to move trains with the help…

Eco Solidarity at Closeup 2021

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ECO Solidarity is an initiative and movement developed with the Polish Cultural Institute New York and Tomek Rygalik of Studio Rygalik in partnership with WantedDesign and presented with eight European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) organizations that address the urgency for more human-centered design in response to humanitarian and public health crises by focusing on ecology, the climate emergency, public health,…

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