FIELD WORK / OPEN CALL

The commons of Copenhagen is situated next to where the conference is held.

Open Call to artists for COP 15
In relation to the climate conference in Copenhagen December 7-18 2009 we invite you to contribute with a poster, image or statement addressing the social and environmental justice dimension of climate change from your point of view.

The posters will be printed in black and white i A2 format, mounted on a board and carried in a march over the green commons of Copenhagen and into the city on Wednesday Dec 9. They will then be installed at Kunsthal Charlottenborg during the climate conference.

Format: A PDF file in print resolution (150 dpi is fine), black and white, size: A2
Send it to: info@field-work.dk

Deadline is November 20th.
We are looking forward to your contribution.

Best
Field Work
Lise Skou and Nis Rømer

www.field-work.dk/opencall.html


 Background

Amongst the many relations defining human existence the individual and collective relation to the environment and our livelihoods are of the most essential.

The cultivation, elaboration and even destruction of the environment are defining our culture and a central tool of power. Field Work aims to investigate those relations by engaging directly with urban and rural landscapes, and reflect on contemporary perception and uses of it. 

Strategies of site specificity have become inadequate. Instead we work for and with the notion of spatial and environmental justice, combining environmental sustainability with social justice issues. Not only resources and wealth but also pollution are distributed unevenly, and the negative side effects of neo-liberal developments tend to hit the poor the hardest.		 Environmental justice therefore also relates to issues of migration, gender and governance. 

In this process we want to ask the question of the role of the artist in relation to social and political change?

What are the gestures, models and techniques that we, as artists, can use today? Can we invent new policies? 

We want to re-evaluate our ways of action and advocate social and political change while questioning what we take for granted in contemporary capitalism and how it shapes our everyday and surroundings. 

Field Work was initiated in 2006.