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• Fiction As Resistance, CliFi Book Group

  • When
    Wednesday, January 08, 2025
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    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM - Mountain Time

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  Fiction As Resistance, CliFi Book Group
  

  Led by Aviva Alexandra Rahmani
  

  Wednesday, January 8
  

  United States: 1pm HST, 3pm PST, 4pm MST, 5pm CST, 6pm EST

  Europe: 21:00pm GMT  Australia: Thursday, January 9, 7:00am AWST
  

  This is the inaugural meet up for the Fiction As Resistance, CliFi Book Group to be led by Aviva Alexandra Rahmani. From January 8 through June 11, this group will meet once a month for one hour to discuss three books to be read during the five months—first with the well known speculative fiction novel Parable Of The Sower (1993) by Octavia E. Butler situated in a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and social inequality, second a short post-apocalyptic novel Tentacle (2015) by Rita Indiana addressing climate change, technology, Yoruba ritual, queer politics, poverty, sex, colonialism and contemporary art, and third a science fiction novel The Water Knife (2015) by Paolo Bacigalupi about a place in the near future where drought brought on by climate change has devastated the Southwestern United States.

  Mark your calendars:

  January 8 - Parable Of The Sower

  February 5 - Parable Of The Sower

  March 5 - Tentacle

  April 9 - The Water Knife

  May 7 - The Water Knife

  June 11 - The Water Knife
  

  
  

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  Aviva Rahmani's ecoart is multi-year and interdisciplinary. Her best-known work is Blued Trees (2015- present) a series of installations across miles of North America that addressed the legal system and ecocide. Ghost Nets (1990-2000) created a flourishing landscape and healthy habitat on degraded land. Both addressed environmental problems as opportunities to create new models for change. She has exhibited, published and been written about internationally, including at the Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Cyprus; the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO; the Hudson River Museum, NY; the Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, OH; and the Joseph Beuys 100 days of Conference Pavilion, for the 2007 Venice Biennale, Italy. She received fellowships from NYSCA, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, NYFA, A Blade Of Grass and the NEA. Her PhD is from Plymouth University, UK. Her masters is from CalArts. Rahmani authored “Divining Chaos” and co-edited “Ecoart in Action” (2022 pub. New Village Press). 

  
  

  This series is $15 for members (only). All participants MUST REGISTER.

  
  

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• Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio - Fall 2024 Presentations

  • When
    Saturday, January 11, 2025
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    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM - Mountain Time

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  Fall 2024 Presentations
  

  Saturday, January 11
  

  United States: 9am HST, 11am PST, Noon MST, 1pm CDT, 2pm EST

  Europe: 19:00 GMT  Australia: Sunday, January 12, 6am AEDT

  Participants from the Fall 2024 Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio course will give presentations of their projects for interested members. You can also sign up for the Winter/Spring 2025 session, which will be held on Zoom February through May.
  

  This was the fifth course designed exclusively for ecoartspace members guiding artists to develop ways of thinking about sustainability in their practice, both conceptually and physically. Participants learned how to wildcraft art materials, a practice that requires one to deepen in their relationship with land, creativity, and self. Through lectures, discussions, self-guided creative research, and class presentations, participants were invited to think critically about how their practice engages place, materiality, and voice in a time of socio-ecological destabilization. Join us to witness their journey way-finding a meaningful practice grounded in bioregional artistic research.

  Special thanks to our guest artists Anne Yonche and Leah Mata Fragua for sharing their practices with the Fall 2024 participants.

  This event is free for members + one guest. All participants MUST REGISTER.

  
  

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