[Scpg] Farmlab Salon: The Harrisons

[Janet Owen Driggs]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I do hope that you'll be able to come and see Helen and Newton, who  
are truly inspiring speakers,
Warm regards
Jan

Janet Owen Driggs


> FARMLAB PUBLIC SALON SERIES PRESENTS: FARMLAB'S 100TH SALON
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>
> NEWTON & HELEN MAYER HARRISON:
> FOUR WORKS ON THE CULTURE OF EXTRACTION
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> Friday January 30, 2009 @ Noon
> 1745 North Spring Street, Unit 4, Los Angeles, CA  90012
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> 323 226 1158 :: info at farmlab.org :: www.farmlab.org
>
> Farmlab's public salons are always free
>
>
>
> Considering the contemporary condition that they describe as the  
> Culture of Extraction,
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> the Harrisons present four of their projects: the Serpentine  
> Lattice, the Endangered
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> Meadows of Europe, Green Heart of Holland, and Greenhouse Britain.
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>
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> Among the leading pioneers of the eco-art movement, the  
> collaborative team of Newton
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> and Helen Mayer Harrison have worked for almost forty years with  
> biologists, ecologists
>
> and urban planners to initiate collaborative dialogues to uncover  
> ideas and solutions which
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> support biodiversity and community development. The Harrison's  
> concept of art embraces
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> a breathtaking range of disciplines. They are historians, diplomats,  
> ecologists, investigators,
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> emissaries and art activists. Their work involves proposing  
> solutions and involves not only public
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> discussion, but extensive mapping and documentation of these  
> proposals in an art context.
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>
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> Past projects have focused on watershed restoration, urban renewal,  
> agriculture and forestry
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> issues among others. The Harrisons visionary projects have often led  
> to changes in governmental
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> policy and have expanded dialogue around previously unexplored  
> issues leading to practical
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> implementations throughout the United States and Europe.
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> "Our work begins when we perceive an anomaly in the environment that  
> is the result of opposing
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> beliefs or contradictory metaphors. Moments when reality no longer  
> appears seamless and the
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> cost of belief has become outrageous offer the opportunity to create  
> new spaces - first in the mind
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> and thereafter in everyday life."
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> Further Information: www.farmlab.org
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>

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