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		<title>Brent Bucknum of Hyphae Design: a profile.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t have time to do environmental at that&#8217;s not functional. &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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<p><em>We don&#8217;t have time to do environmental at that&#8217;s not functional.</em></p>
<p>&#8211; Brent Bucknum</p>
<p>In working on a <a title="SJ Climate Clock" href="http://sj-climateclock.org/">Climate Clock for the San Jose Initiative</a>, designer Brent Bucknam would often get into theoretical debates about the nature of art. His project partner, Brian Howe of <a title="greenmeme" href="http://www.greenmeme.com/">greenmeme</a>, would quote Picasso: <em>Art is the lie that reveals the truth. </em>Brent&#8217;s response was the quote above.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s one of the central questions of the environmental art movement, and one that is integral to Brent&#8217;s work with <a title="Hyphae Design Lab" href="http://hyphae.net/" target="_blank">Hyphae Design Laboratory,</a> a company he founded.</p>
<p>How can art save the world?</p>
<p>Artists on <a href="http://www.greenmuseum.org">greenmuseum.org</a> and elsewhere  are blurring cultural boundaries between art and science, science and activism, volunteerism and performance. Traditional forms hold fast, but functionality remains central to Hyphae&#8217;s work. Function: defined by this designer as &#8220;interpreting and conveying ecological information or serving otherwise as an ecological tool or system.&#8221; Hyphae is currently working on a project in West Oakland, a plan to line the 580 highway on either side with towering stands of bamboo, natural air and particulate filters. On a greenmuseum.org-sponsored panel at the recent <a title="EMOS" href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~ecodrama/welcome/" target="_blank">Earth Matters on Stage Symposium</a>, he presented a number of other exciting projects, from green roofs to living walls.</p>
<p>The 28-year old designer went to a farming high school. He worked for bioremediation and green roof companies before joining <a title="Rana Creek" href="http://www.ranacreek.com/" target="_blank">Rana Creek</a>, with which he worked on the California Academy of Sciences&#8217; living roof. He became that company&#8217;s first Director of Design before moving on to create Hyphae.  He sees his new company as a catchall, providing services from ecological design and research to consulting for artists interested in environmental projects.</p>
<p>That last aspect is the result of Bucknum&#8217;s own experiences making environmental art: he&#8217;d like to see artwork that &#8216;s better informed by ecology, not, as he puts it, the &#8220;horti-torture&#8221; that creates living systems barely able to survive the duration of an exhibition. He&#8217;d like the art to be the change it would like to see in the world: smart, sustainable, and thriving.</p>
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		<title>Earth Matters On Stage: Wrap-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been more than a week since the final days of this year&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s been more than a week since the final days of this year&#8217;s <a title="Earth Matters On Stage" href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~ecodrama/welcome/" target="_blank">Earth Matters On Stage EcoDrama Symposium.</a> I returned from Oregon to be immediately eaten alive by<a title="Cal Performances" href="http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank"> my other life</a>: just coming up for air now and able to digest some of the great happenings and events. Hence this giant post.</p>
<p>The picture above is from day nine : that&#8217;s Ian Garrett and Naseem Mazloom of the <a title="CSPA" href="http://www.sustainablepractice.org" target="_blank">Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts</a> chillin&#8217;  on the lawn of the University of Oregon. After nine very full days of lectures, workshops, panels and a staged reading of Theresa May&#8217;s intense play <em>Salmon is Everything</em>, we  needed a break.</p>
<p>The very full final weekend  started off with an early-morning video conference with a UK contingent hosted by the  <a title="Ashden Directory" href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/">Ashden Directory</a>. The overseas contributors overcame the fuzzy video and iffy sound quality of our current technology by preparing <a title="Ashden Video" href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/featuresView.asp?pageIdentifier=2009521_19735354&amp;view="> a short film</a>.</p>
<p>In it, several leading environmental artists, administrators and thinkers passed the philosophical baton by asking questions like: &#8220;How far is art worth the damage?&#8221; and &#8220;How can we reunite culture and agriculture through performance?&#8221; The room was brimming with ideas after that, and it was all we could do to get a few notions exchanged across the Atlantic before time ran out. <a title="Ashden Video" href="http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/featuresView.asp?pageIdentifier=2009521_19735354&amp;view=" target="_blank">Watch the video</a>: do it now.</p>
<p>The stimulating conversation continued the next day with a panel called <em>Theater&#8217;s Double Helix: Green Building and Sustainable Community Engagement</em>.  Tim DuRoche and Creon Thorne of <a title="PCS" href="http://www.pcs.org/four_pillars/">Portland Center Stage </a>discussed their mecca of a green theatre: the folks from CSPA discussed their future mecca of sustainable practice.</p>
<p>Easily one of the most fascinating panels of the week, however, was the <em>Northwest Theater Town Hall Meeting on Place/Community/Theatre.</em> In it, Artistic Directors and administrators from a wide swath of Pacific Northwest Theaters (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Teatro Milagro, and the Lord Leebrick Theatre, to name a few), discussed how they strive to best serve their communities.</p>
<p>Issues of race surfaced, and not timidly (quote from Valerie Curtis-Newton of the Lorraine Hansberry Project: &#8220;Why does the marketing sound like an anthropological expedition? White people! Stop trying to sell me to other white people!&#8221;). The idea of non-local community also came under discussion (45% of OSF&#8217;s audience is from the SF Bay Area: the internet creates seas of non-geographic communities: PCS had Scrooge &#8220;twittering&#8221; during <em>A Christmas Carol</em>). All in all, great perspective from a group of seasoned professionals.</p>
<p>Somewhere within these ten days I led a panel and a workshop: there were also many, many other worthwhile performances and presentations (including a short play starring a Cedar Tree). Over the next few months I&#8217;ll do retrospectives of works I&#8217;ve missed: stay posted.</p>
<p>Garrett and I had to miss the last day to get back into California for work. We left exhausted, but excited about the future. The Earth Matters On Stage EcoDrama symposium was a kind of turning-of-the-soil, great groundwork for things to come. Thanks to the University of Oregon, Damond Morris, and Theresa May for making it happen.</p>
<p><em>Some greenmuseum.org ecology and performance links:</em></p>
<p><a title="enterchange" href="http://greenmuseum.org/c/enterchange/" target="_blank">~enterchange </a></p>
<p><a title="Platform London" href="http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-150.html" target="_blank">~Platform London</a></p>
<p><a title="Hester Reeve" href="http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-156.html" target="_blank">~Hester Reeve</a></p>
<p><a title="Simon Whitehead" href="http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-152.html">~Simon Whitehead</a></p>
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		<title>Earth Matters on Stage: Sustainable Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 06:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the lectures here at EMOS are held at the very-new Hope Theater at the University of Oregon&#8217;s Miller Theatre Complex. Boom: there&#8217;s a big square fact to start the post off for you. But I&#8217;m going somewhere with it. Right now, where the Hope would be a big black box is all full [...]]]></description>
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<p>Many of the lectures here at <a title="EMOS" href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~ecodrama/welcome/">EMOS</a> are held at the very-new Hope Theater at the <a title="Miller Theatre Complex" href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~theatre/" target="_blank">University of Oregon&#8217;s Miller Theatre Complex</a>. Boom: there&#8217;s a big square fact to start the post off for you. But I&#8217;m going somewhere with it.</p>
<p>Right now, where the Hope would be a big black box is all full up with Set. The floor is painted in a curling desert-river pattern. Upstage is a forest of recycled wooden planks and juttings, a kind of grandpa&#8217;s-attic bamboo. In one corner is a platform with puzzle-piece innards: old bedposts, chairs and plywood fold over each other in a hefty collage.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all for the stagings of the Festival&#8217;s top two <a title="EcoDrama Contest Winners" href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~ecodrama/finalists/">prize-winning plays</a>:  <em>Song of Extinction</em> and <em>Atomic Farmgirl</em>. But what was intended to represent a Bolivian forest and an American farm has come to represent the EMOS festival itself, both literally and figuratively: the set was  constructed with recycled materials.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s sessions were sponsored by the <a title="CSPA" href="http://www.sustainablepractice.org">Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts</a>. Led by <a title="toasterlab" href="http://www.toasterlab.com/">Ian Garrett</a>, they included presentations by <a title="Steve Mital" href="http://sustainability.uoregon.edu/content/sustainability-staff">Steve Mital, University of Oregon&#8217;s Director of Sustainability</a>, PhD candidate (and EMOS Production Manager) Damond Morris, several eco-conscious designers, and several pioneers of a Sustainable Dramaturgy program at <a title="CalArts" href="http://calarts.edu/theater">CalArts</a>.</p>
<p>At this point: it&#8217;s day seven. Everyone in the room knows each other, at least by sight. We&#8217;re calling each other out in the audience: <em>could you talk about your experience with . . . what&#8217;s your perspective on . . . </em>and what begins as a formal presentation becomes a group conversation quickly and easily.</p>
<p>Inspired by <a title="EcoTheater" href="http://www.ecotheater.com">Mike Lawler</a>, here are a few questions asked in the course of the day (some got answered, some did not):</p>
<p><em>What is a &#8220;sustainable university&#8221;?</em></p>
<p><em>What is the impact of a theatrical lighting system?</em></p>
<p><em>Where in this stream can we reduce our waste?</em></p>
<p><em>What are the next steps in expanding/refining sustainable pedagogy?<br />
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<p><em>How do we reframe our relationship to resources?</em></p>
<p><em>How can we implement what we believe in the art we create?</em></p>
<p>If your curiosity is piqued, I&#8217;d encourage you to visit the <a title="CSPA wiki" href="http://wiki.sustainablepractice.org/index.php?title=Main_Page">CSPA&#8217;s wiki</a> for tools and nuggets of information. As to the rest, I leave you with Morris&#8217; <em>Five D&#8217;s of Design for Environment: </em></p>
<p>Design for Dissasembly. Design for Recyclability. Design for Disposability. Design for Reusability. Design for Remanufacture.</p>
<p>See you on the other side of  a recycled-wooden forest.</p>
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		<title>Earth Matters On Stage: Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 04:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;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&#8217;s a one-way ticket to . . . this conference. Hem. Earth Matters On Stage. On the stage, bucko, not just in your brain. [...]]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;s a one-way ticket to . . . this conference. Hem. <em>Earth Matters On Stage</em>. On the stage, bucko, not just in your brain. You better get moving.</p>
<p>For the first weekend here I was a part of the <a title="Sedimentations, last ACN conference" href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~petra/sedimentations.htm">Art Culture Nature</a> Working Group. Ten fellows were selected to lead half-hour workshops exploring the relationship between our craft and our planet. We were essentially encouraged to use the group as a brain trust&#8211; but more often than not, we relied on our bodies.</p>
<p>As a group, we moved. We formed sculptures about place, we followed impulses and rolled around on the grass. We took pictures of our surroundings, we worked with soil. All of this wildness took place under the guidance of the workshop leader (and the extreme limitations of time). We looked very silly sometimes, but learned a lot about process and structure.</p>
<p>Later in the week came a workshop about labyrinths, led by Paul Bindel and Justin Simms. I learned that labyrinths are used most commonly not in pursuit of <a title="Minotaur" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur">bullheaded monsters</a>, or for <a title="The Shining" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/">escaping Jack Nicholson</a>, but as meditative tools.</p>
<p><a title="Labyrinth Locator" href="http://labyrinthlocator.com/home" target="_blank">There are labyrinths everywhere</a>: 60 listed in Massachusetts alone. Their curling series of lines gives visitors a form in which to get lost, to walk through while their minds drift.  It&#8217;s a way to pay penance, to build serenity. It&#8217;s a task for your body that lets your brain go. Just follow the lines.</p>
<p>As a group we went out to a grove nearby the University of Oregon and built a labyrinth with wood gathered nearby. When it was done&#8211; spiraling sticky-sticks winding paths through the tiny trees&#8211; we each walked it. You could hear branches cracking and flutes playing and folks chatting as you wove your way around and around and around.  A great task for the body, a great chance to digest all the conference info and just go, go, go.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 08:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One of the first things people ask me, is, did I know Artaud?&#8221; This is how Rachel Rosenthal begins her keynote.  Here at EMOS, it&#8217;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&#8217;t need an explanation of the [...]]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;One of the first things people ask me, is, did I know Artaud?&#8221;</p>
<p>This is how <a title="RR" href="http://www.rachelrosenthal.org/" target="_blank">Rachel Rosenthal</a> begins her keynote.  Here at <a title="EMOS" href="http://http://www.uoregon.edu/~ecodrama/welcome/" target="_blank">EMOS</a>, it&#8217;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&#8217;t need an explanation of the guttaral relationship between earth and body, who know her and her work, or who at the very least don&#8217;t need a speech about earth-saving. They know Artaud wrote &#8220;<a title="The Theatre and its Double" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_and_its_Double" target="_blank">The Theatre and its Double</a>,&#8221; and chuckle. She knows her audience.</p>
<p>Rosenthal junkies at EMOS got a major fix: a presentation which included her first performance in almost 10 years, an opportunity to buy Moira Roth&#8217;s Rosenthal anthology and have it signed by the artist, and the next morning, an analysis of her work by a panel of her former students and devoted independent scholars. Heady.</p>
<p>Rosenthal did not, in fact, know Artaud, but he did &#8220;save her life:&#8221; his writing gave her a logical basis to begin creating her own unique brand of performance: eco-feminist, deeply personal, and dramatically sharp. Clips shown over the weekend included <em>L.O.W. in Gaia</em>, in which she writes her age on her bald head in lipstick and drags bags of trash behind her on the stage, and <em>The Others</em>, which included 42 &#8220;non-human animal&#8221; performers.</p>
<p>In a presentation days later given by<a title="Deke Weaver" href="http://www.dekeweaver.com/"> Deke Weaver</a>, an interesting conversation arose. What is the line between sharpened meduim and effective message? How do you articulate an important issue without pandering, how do you push the form without driving away your audience? Rosenthal is famous for creating a body of work that is made of her own body, stories and trembling articulations. Whether or not watching Gaia rise from a pile of garbage is your idea of an endurance test, it is deeply rooted in a sobbing, grappling love for the earth. Rosenthal was saddend to learn that Artaud never saw his idea of theater realized onstage. But of her own methods, she decries: &#8220;I will not die without having seen it, because it&#8217;s MINE.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Earth Matters On Stage: Blood and Bodies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 20:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a shark signing his chummy painting above, proving once and for all that eco-art is not for the faint of heart. It&#8217;s an image used by Una Chaudhuri in her keynote address  &#8220;Animal (and) Planet: Zooesis and Ecological Extremity&#8221;  at this year&#8217;s EMOS. Chaudhuri is responsible for major contributions to the written EcoDrama field, [...]]]></description>
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<p>That&#8217;s a shark signing his chummy painting above, proving once and for all that eco-art is not for the faint of heart.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s an image used by <a title="Una Chaudhuri" href="http://english.fas.nyu.edu/object/UnaChaudhuri.html">Una Chaudhuri</a> in her keynote address  &#8220;Animal (and) Planet: Zooesis and Ecological Extremity&#8221;  at this year&#8217;s <a title="EMOS" href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~ecodrama/welcome/" target="_blank">EMOS.</a> Chaudhuri is responsible for major contributions to the written EcoDrama field, and so wields terms like &#8220;gynesis,&#8221; and &#8220;anthropological machine&#8221; expertly (even while folks like <a title="EcoTheater" href="http://www.ecotheater.com">Mike Lawler</a> and I are squinting to catch up).</p>
<p>It was a look at performance and animals&#8211; or performance and non-human animals, if you prefer.  The bookends of the speech were a piece called <a title="Helena" href="http://www.evaristti.com/iweb/---Helena%20%20-%20The%20GoldFish.html">&#8220;Helena&#8221;</a>, in which artist Marco Evaristti  gave the public the option of pulverizing live goldfish in blenders&#8211;  and the work of <a title="Olly and Suzi" href="http://http://www.ollysuzi.com/home.php">Olly and Suzi</a>, who go out into the wilderness and make collaborative paintings with animals ( not just your alley cat or field mouse: see above).</p>
<p>So here I am, at a conference intended to examine the relationship between our planet and our performance art, and I have to confess that I feel silly using the term &#8220;non-human animal.&#8221; But that&#8217;s the essence of what  Una Chaudhuri is addressing: at what point do we stop looking at &#8220;the others&#8221; as something we manipulate and use, and start acknowledging them as collaborators in our community&#8211; ecologically, and in this case, artistically?</p>
<p>These same themes come up again and powerfully in EMOS during a panel on Rachel Rosenthal&#8217;s work, and in the context of the artist&#8217;s own flesh and blood. There&#8217;s also much more: green theater practices, Boal, space, giraffes, rituals and rollings on the grass&#8211; I&#8217;ll be posting more frequently in the next week as the eco-nerddery swells my brain . . .</p>
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