Library of Creative Sustainability
The Library is a database of inspiring case studies demonstrating the benefits of collaborating with artists to achieve environmental sustainability outcomes. It provides a practical resource to inform sustainability organisations and campaigns on how to work with ‘embedded artists’ over extended periods through examples of successful past projects. Each article includes detailed information on partners and stakeholders, sustainability outcomes and funding, as well as tips and links to further resources.
Speculative Energy Futures added to the Library of Creative Sustainability (Creative Carbon Scotland)
Speculative Energy Futures uses arts-based practices to re-imagine energy futures beyond what we currently think is possible. 2017- Ongoing.
Speculative Energy Futures was started in 2017 by Sheena Wilson, Professor of Media, Communications and Energy Humanities at the University of Alberta and co-founder and co-director of the international Petrocultures Research Group, and Natalie Loveless, Professor of History of Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Alberta. It is a long-term project that brings together artists, activists, scientists, engineers, policymakers, social science and energy humanities researchers, and Indigenous legal experts and Knowledge Keepers, to explore possible energy futures through research-creation methodologies and practice-led research.
library item page on Creative Carbon Scotland Library of Creative Sustainability
Performance as Experiment:
workshop with Marilyn Arsem
May 2023
This workshop focuses on performance art as a site of learning. Performances are often created to communicate something that the artist already knows, but this is about making work in which the end result is not fully known. The performance is, instead, an experiment, where something is discovered through the process of doing the work. It is about observing and experiencing change and transformation.
featured: interview with colab 2019 fulbright scholar tom rice
Tom Rice is a multi-media artist working in drawing, painting, video and performance, whose work addresses issues related to the environment, fossil fuel dependence, and the growing global crisis related to climate change. In 2019, he was awarded a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Alberta with the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory. During his time at the U of A, Rice researched and produced a drawing installation that explored the history and realities of fossil fuel extraction and consumption that connects Canada and the US. The project was to focus on North America’s unsustainable appetite for carbon-based energy sources, and its impact on the environment and global climate change. His work on the project that took him to the U of A continues. Current work addresses North America’s addiction to fossil fuels, and oil in particular, depicting the signifiers of the petroleum industry and its despoliation of the environment.
