Table ronde de l’exposition Un/Natural Occurrences

September 27, 2013, 6:30pm
Admission: $5

As part of CENTRAL BOOKING’s ongoing panel series delving into the confluence of art and science, we are pleased to present the accompanying discussion to the exhibition Un/Natural Occurrences. Comprised of members from the arts and sciences communities, the panel will discuss issues regarding the changing state of both the global and local environment. Gary Golden, professional Futurist, moderates a panel that includes Aviva Rahmani, Peter Fend, Eve Mosher and Susan Goethel Campbell in our newly opened OffLINE event space of the gallery.

Un/Natural Occurrences features the work of 25 artists and collaborators. These are artists who are searching for more than the obvious in either bringing to light past and current indiscretions, warning against a catastrophic future if unheeded, working with the scientific community on possible solutions and sometimes just telling it like it is. We view this exhibition as a bookend to Natural Histories, which launched CENTRAL BOOKING’s initial space in 2009.

Gary Golden is an academically trained Futurist who speaks and consults on issues shaping business and society in the 21st century. He has worked with organizational leaders across a wide range of sectors from transportation, energy, engineering, media/publishing, finance/insurance, food, health-wellness, manufacturing, retail, and education. Garry holds a graduate degree from the University of Houston Future Studies program – and is a past member on the Board of Directors of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF).

Aviva Rahmani has forty-four years of experience with environmental degradation and solutions. She is completing a PhD in environmental sciences with an emphasis on thermodynamic modeling at the University of Plymouth, UK where her advisor is the lead wetlands ecologist on the BP oil spill. With a background in performance and conceptual art, her projects involve working with collaborative inter-disciplinary community teams, including scientists, planners and environmentalists. As an Affiliate at the Institute of Alpine and Arctic Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, since 2007 she has worked on global warming with the Director, Dr. James White.

Peter Fend combines art and science in an Alberti-based architectural practice via his Ocean Earth Development Corporation, founded in 1980. Fend has completed residencies internationally including, France, Japan and Holland, has had more exhibitions than any other person at American Fine Arts and has been featured twice in Documenta and the Venice Biennale and in the desert sites of Sharjah, UAE. He has had two press conferences with the United Nations, a commissioned report by the United States Congress and has two published scientific papers on his work with satellites.

Eve Mosher is an artist and interventionist living and working in New York City. Her works use investigations of the landscape as starting points for audience exploration of urban issues. Her public works raise issues of involvement in the environment, public/private space use, history of place, cultural and social issues and our own understanding of the urban ecosystem. Her work has been profiled internationally including the The New Yorker, The New York Times and Le Monde. Her public and community based artworks have received grants from New York State Council on the Arts and New York Department of Cultural Affairs.

Susan Goethel Campbell creates multi-disciplinary work that considers the contemporary landscape to be an emergent system where nature, culture and the engineered environment are indistinguishable from one another. Central to her practice is the collection, documentation and observation of seasonal change and ephemera in both natural and artificial environments. Her work is realized in several formats, including installation, video, prints and drawings, as well as projects that engage communities to look at local and global environments.

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