Library
[untitled] a space for monsters, ghosts and animals
By: friendly fire
[gallery link="file" columns="5" ids="100336,100337,100338,100339,100340"] From the conference programme: In a performative audiowalk friendly fire explores together with the visitors individual and collective transformations in all their visionary, dreamy, scary, eerie, threatening, monstrous or incredibly funny facets. Stroll around in the conference area equiped with an audioguide to find...
Der neue Mensch. / The new Man.
By: LIGNA
[gallery link="file" columns="5" ids="100341,100342,100343,100344,100345"] Four Exercises in Utopian Movements From the conference programme: THE NEW MAN is an interactive radio play in which the spectator becomes an active participant. The audience will meet the visions of the new Man of four artists of the 20s : the poet Bertolt Brecht, the dancer Rudolf von Laban, the director Wsewolod...
The Waiting Room | The Degrowth Performance Project
By: friendly fire, Peter Stamer, Diego Agullò, Clément Layes, Dmitry Paranyushkin, Fräulein Bernd, Lukas Bugiel, Sylvia Kadur, Maix Mayer, Anna Pescke, Angelika Waniek, Laris Hemken, Beide Messies
[gallery link="file" columns="6" ids="105195,105196,105197,105198,105199,105200,105201,105202,105204,105205,105206,105207,105208,105209,105210,105211,105212,105213,105214,105215,105216"] Performance-project by and with Peter Stamer, Diego Agullò, Clément Layes, Dmitry Paranyushkin, Fräulein Bernd, Lukas Bugiel, friendly fire, Sylvia Kadur, Maix Mayer, Anna Pescke, Angelika Waniek, Laris...
Available for sale
By: Julian Röder
[gallery link="file" columns="5" ids="105128,105129,105130,105131,105132"] Photography by Julian Röder From the conference programme: An opening of a shopping mall, discounts on all articles, Monday, 12 am – masses of consumers and goods meet in the middle of the night. “Available for sale” stages and documents (mass-) consumption between rush and reality, euphoria and disillusionment. >...
You are here - Ein achtsamer Spaziergang durch den Konsum
By: Diana Wesser
[gallery link="file" columns="5" ids="100365,100366,100367,100368,100369"] From the conference programme: The walk investigates the shopping worlds of the city-centre of Leipzig. Different ways of moving around can change our perceptions and create a strengthened sense of awareness for the present moment. The city becomes a stage where participants discover everyday performances and different...
The Game / Das Spiel
By: Hannah Baumann, Mirjam Hildbrand
[gallery link="file" columns="6" ids="100370,100371,100372,100373,100374"] From the conference programme: This performance invites you to rethink the given and play with variants of reality. The participants are pawns in the game and challenge each other in groups. While the game is just for fun, it develops its own serious nature, and a lot of things can happen in the gravitiy of the...
TAF! Photographic Action Workshop / TAF! Fotografie Aktions Workshop
By: Oriana Elicabe
[gallery link="file" columns="7" ids="100375,100376,100377,100378,100379,100380,100381,100382"] From the conference programme: TAF! is a theoretical-practical photography workshop over 3 days designed for action. It aims to share knowledge and practices in toolkit mode. We will look at photography and its use as a communication tool and as a way of collectively intervening in social issues....
Ideenreich ressourcenleicht | Participatory Design Workshop
By: Miriam Lahusen, Sirkka Jacobsen
[gallery link="file" columns="4" ids="105124,105125,105126,105127"] From the conference programme: Needs and behaviours of citizens are important sources of knowledge for research and development in the field of energy sufficiency. This workshop will investigate how these can be included by using artistic methods developed by designers in the project “Energiesuffizienz” of the ifeu Institute,...
Short film walk / Kurzfilmwanderung
[gallery link="file" columns="4" ids="100383,100384,100385,100386"] From the conference programme: Join in for a stroll through the city of Leipzig. Equipped with a projector, sound system, generator and short films the short film walking tour starts in the court of the university. On the way through the city gray facades are animated with scintillating pictures and empty streets are filled...
Installations / Installationen Degrowth Conference 2014
By: Stella Veciana, Jaana Prüss, Dan Norton, Herwig Kemmerich
[gallery link="file" columns="4" ids="105123,105122,105121,105120"] From the conference programme: ELIJAHS BALL, Sculpture, Herwig Kemmerich A long time ago the prophet Elijah coined the expression: “grass will grow on your cities”. Reflecting ecological challenges in post-industrial society, the wrecking ball can represent deconstruction on a material level, it can be read as a symbol against...
Metamorphosen / Metamorphosen
By: Pablo Paolo Kilian, Melanie Bleckert
From the conference programme: n the audiovisual project METAMORPHOSEN pianist Pablo Paolo Kilian improvises between reduction and density, increase and exhaustion, minimalistic and full sounds that develop slowly or suddenly, collapse into moments of transition and transformation. Visual artist Melanie Bleckert adds images of change and emergence using the analogue Lightmotiv projection...
Degrowth Equals Regrowth: A Discussion of Eduardo Galeano's W ork
By: Anitra Nelson
degrowth, Eduardo Galeano, exchange value, non-market socialism, use value
Décroissance Montréal/Montreal Degrowth - Highlights from the artistic program/Faits saillants du programme artistique
By: Geoffrey Garver
Décroissance Montréal/Montreal Degrowth - Highlights from the artistic program/Faits saillants du programme artistique from Geoffrey Garver on Vimeo. Highlights from the artistic programme at the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Paintings, film, photography, music and dance with some short comments.
Décroissance Montréal/Montreal Degrowth - Audree Juteau & Andrea Hawkes
By: Geoffrey Garver, Audree Juteau, Andrea Hawkes
Décroissance Montréal/Montreal Degrowth - Audree Juteau & Andrea Hawkes - 14 mai/May 2012 from Geoffrey Garver on Vimeo. Dance performance at the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal in 2012. The topic of the performance is "taking position".
Décroissance Montréal/Degrowth Montreal - "Nothing Time"
By: Geoffrey Garver, unknown
Décroissance Montréal/Degrowth Montreal - "Nothing Time" - 15 mai/May 2012 from Geoffrey Garver on Vimeo. "Nothing Time" was performed at the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012.
Ecomusicology: a key to understand human harmony
From the introduction:The perspective of scientific realism has the tendency to consider environmental problems leaving aside their ethical, historical and political context. On the contrary, the humanities, philosophy, literature, visual arts, music, help to develop a knowledge of the nature alternative to the one proposed by natural sciences, and often overflowing the limits imposed by...
Sea-change and Metamorphosis: Useful Images in a Degrowth Approach to the Arts?
Content and purpose : I shall discuss the literary motif of metamorphosis as a reflection of the ecological position of human societies; in particular, I shall deal with a kind of metamorphosis referred to as “sea-change”: the transformation that occurs underwater, or, more generally, by agency of the sea. I shall refer to examples of literary metamorphosis across different historical contexts,...
Beautiful Trouble
By: Various Authors
Beautiful Trouble is a book, web toolbox and international network of artist-activist trainers whose mission is to make grassroots movements more creative and more effective.
Architecture and Degrowth? - How an Art of Production can fundamentally and voluntary degrow without disappearing
By: Emmanuel Pezrès
Poster by Emmanuel Pezrès from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Architecture and Degrowth? - How an Art of Production can fundamentally and voluntary degrow without disappearing".
13 Attitudes
By: THE LABORATORY OF INSURRECTIONARY IMAGINATION
A small booklet on 13 Attitudes of Permaculture. Text, quotes and illustrations.