Archive for the ‘EcoDrama Symposium 2009’ Category

Brent Bucknum of Hyphae Design: a profile.

We don’t have time to do environmental at that’s not functional.
– Brent Bucknum
In working on a Climate Clock for the San Jose Initiative, designer Brent Bucknam would often get into theoretical debates about the nature of art. His project partner, Brian Howe of greenmeme, would quote Picasso: Art is the lie that reveals the truth. [...]

August 1, 2009   Posted in: Artists, Design, EcoDrama Symposium 2009, Moe, greenmuseum.org  No Comments

Earth Matters On Stage: Wrap-Up

It’s been more than a week since the final days of this year’s Earth Matters On Stage EcoDrama Symposium. I returned from Oregon to be immediately eaten alive by my other life: just coming up for air now and able to digest some of the great happenings and events. Hence this giant post.
The picture above [...]

June 11, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: EcoDrama Symposium 2009, Infrastructure, Moe, Performance, Politics  No Comments

Earth Matters on Stage: Sustainable Practice

Many of the lectures here at EMOS are held at the very-new Hope Theater at the University of Oregon’s Miller Theatre Complex. Boom: there’s a big square fact to start the post off for you. But I’m going somewhere with it.
Right now, where the Hope would be a big black box is all full up [...]

May 29, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Conferences, EcoDrama Symposium 2009, Infrastructure, Moe, Politics, Pollution, Theory, Transportation, Waste  No Comments

Earth Matters On Stage: Process

It’s easy to get all cranial on the whole planet/culture relationship. It is, in fact, kind of scary not to.  Start learning with your body and not your brain, and well, that’s a one-way ticket to . . . this conference. Hem. Earth Matters On Stage. On the stage, bucko, not just in your brain. [...]

May 28, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Conferences, EcoDrama Symposium 2009, Moe  No Comments

Earth Matters On Stage: Rachel Rosenthal

“One of the first things people ask me, is, did I know Artaud?”
This is how Rachel Rosenthal begins her keynote.  Here at EMOS, it’s perfect. Artistic Director Theresa May has just given her a fantastic introduction. She is in a room full of full-out EcoDrama nerds, folks who don’t need an explanation of the guttaral [...]

May 27, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Conferences, EcoDrama Symposium 2009, Moe, Performance  No Comments

Earth Matters On Stage: Blood and Bodies

That’s a shark signing his chummy painting above, proving once and for all that eco-art is not for the faint of heart.
It’s an image used by Una Chaudhuri in her keynote address  “Animal (and) Planet: Zooesis and Ecological Extremity”  at this year’s EMOS. Chaudhuri is responsible for major contributions to the written EcoDrama field, and [...]

May 26, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Conferences, EcoDrama Symposium 2009, Moe, Theory  No Comments