There is hardly an issue of more pressing and decisive importance to mankind's future than Earth's natural resources. Indeed, there are ecological as well as mental aspects involved in how society is dealing with this. Then again, the growing scarcity of our essential raw materials is the item on humanity's agenda that requires urgent attention.
OVERTURES, a series of art projects and exhibitions launched by artcircolo in the year 2000, deals with a complex of issues having to do with this topic. From its very inception, this has been designed to entail close cooperation among artists, curators, technologists, scientists, economists and media experts. From the consequences of climatic change, the details of which are still unforseeable, OVERTURES derives designs for alternative food for thought and points of view in order to provide society with options for actions that are artistically accented and thus intentionally left open. |
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Artists are currently collaborating in various transdisciplinary partnerships to develop works and communication methods whose field of resonance is centered on the problematic issue of the changing role of resources in the future.
By an transdisciplinary discourse topical interfaces should be found and ideas on the theme can be implemented collaboratively. This conceptual objective is the basis for "Hydroformances" (workshops and symposia). With their points of view and their works, artists foster public discussions with experts for a paradigm change.
The precondition for exploring and commenting impacts of global manifestations of society and environment is the concrete experience of confronting the local situations. Thus OVERTURES has been conceived as a long-term expedition, with stops in a wide variety of cities and countries. |
