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Sacha Kagan
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Sacha Kagan's Discussions
Can Art Matter?
Replied Oct. 19, 2007
The Open Source Movement?
Replied Oct. 19, 2007
The Open Source Movement?
Replied Oct. 19, 2007
Sacha Kagan's Events
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Call for workshop proposals at online (school in Bulgaria)
December 20, 2009 all day
Call for workshop proposals
in the framework of:
THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
Of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation
The event is planned for August 2010 in
Bulgaria, in the beautiful Balkan mountains.
As part of t…
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- Where do you live?
- Lueneburg, Germany
- Website:
- http://sachakagan.wordpress.com
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- http://www.cultura21.net
- What else do you want us to know?
- Sacha Kagan is a research associate at the Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany), teaching and preparing a PhD in the field of 'Culture Sciences', and more specifically into the transdisciplinary study of “arts and (un-)sustainability”.
He is coordinating the international network Cultura21, gathering artists, scientists, activists and other cultural actors engaged for cultures of sustainability.
Sacha coordinated the 'sustainability stream' and curated the art program at the last conference of the Arts Research Network of the European Sociological Association, held in Lueneburg in March-April 2007. Among other things, he is currently finalizing with a group of students the 'tactical media' project Leuphana21 which is a 'détournement' of the discourses of the undergoing university reform in Europe and its unfortunate 'Homo Economicus' ideology.
Sacha is co-editing a book that will be published in 2008, with 15 contributing authors (artists, art sociologists, environmental scientists, intellectuals and activists from Europe, the Americas and Africa). The book will be entitled "Sustainability: A new frontier for the arts and cultures" (VAS, Frankfurt).
A French citizen living in Germany for the last two years, Sacha's background combines a personal engagement in the cultural and ecological/political sector with university degrees in cultural economics (M.A. at the university of Rotterdam) and in political sciences (Sciences Po Bordeaux).
Websites: http://www.uni-lueneburg.de/fb3/kvo/html/team/kagan/index_e.php and http://www.cultura21.net ... The video of the 'identity correction' project Leuphana21 by Cultura21 Lueneburg is available at http://www.leuphana.de.vu ...
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Visit http://www.leuphana.de.vu to see the 'tactical media' project I'm currently involved in...
Visit http://www.cultura21.net to learn about this new international network of scientists, artists, activists and other cultural actors working for cultures of sustainability...
Visit http://www.cultura21.net to learn about this new international network of scientists, artists, activists and other cultural actors working for cultures of sustainability...
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Pat
Farmer talking
Art farmer perhaps
Take a look at Timothy Hume page and comment if you care to.
Cheers Timothy
While I don't disagree with you regarding Bourriaud; He contributes to a philosophical position that I think you will find much more clearly articulated in Grant Kester's 'Conversation Pieces'.
Kester provides a historical overview of art history, theory and related philosophies coupled with a deeply thoughtful review of the range of work that can be considered for dialogic/social consequence.
tc
I'm very interested in what you said about exploring Sustainability Art. Just this week I started a blog on art and sustainability to try to think about art in relation to issues of sustainability: http://artandsustainability.blogspot.com/. In the past, I've been involved with ecological art, but that implies an art with a particular ecological commitment. Art made from the viewpoint of sustainability might be involve that as a conscious effort or it may not. I'm interested in how art might be part of a larger conversation that we all need to become part of. We'll see how this goes, but I would be very interested in learning about your thinking on this topic.
Your work looks very interesting and Perfurbance #3 festival in Indonesia is a great example of sustainable arts festival examining many of the issues you are working with
cheers
Jan