"Public Smog is part of an ongoing conceptual artwork by San Francisco-based artist, Amy Balkin. The project consists of a gesture in which the artist buys and withholds carbon gas emission credits from international trading markets in order to create a temporary clean-air park. Aiming to highlight the complexities and contradictions of current environmental protocols, Balkin will attempt to submit an application to qualify the entire atmosphere as a UNESCO World Heritage Site."
From http://www.cca.rca.ac.uk/publicsmog/

Curated by MA Curating Contemporary Art students at the Royal College of Art
1 — 7 November 2006, 12noon — 6pm, Private View 1 November, 6 — 9pm
Peer, 99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL, UK

Amy presents a print version of This is The Public Domain in the Latitudes' edited publication LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook

Latitudes is excited to announce a collaboration with the Turin-based art and culture magazine UOVO. We will be guest editing the April 2007 issue. More details soon...

Estamos encantados de anunciar la colaboración de Latitudes con la revista cultural UOVO con base en Torino. Seremos editores invitados del número de Abril 2007. Pronto os daremos más detalles...

By sheer serendipity we ended up spending the evening last Saturday with Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser who run –pay attention now...– Attitudes Espace d'arts contemporains in Geneva, Switzerland. The next projects at the space (from 17 November) are by Tomás Saraceno and Dan Perjovschi. They present pages in Attitudes journal, called Latitudes, featuring artists working in residence around the world. Here is Lara Almárcegui's page.

One of our many highlights of the manic Frieze week–last week–was finally meeting up with artist Rotterdam-based Spanish artist Lara Almarcegui. She was presenting a new work for Frieze Projects that listed all the weights of materials that made up the fair's tent structure (see above).

We have been working with Lara as one of the contributors to LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (with pages documenting her wasteland projects), and she will also be presenting at the Arts & Ecology conference No Way Back? in London in December.

"Una manifestación no autorizada en la que participaron unas 400 personas finalizó anoche en Barcelona con un mosso herido en la cabeza, dos detenidos y destrozos en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona..." La Vanguardia...

A 3-hour train from Copenhagen is the ARoS Art Museum in Århus, where the John Kørner's exhibition 'Århus Bank' finished 17 September. Paintings, ceramics and a video 'My favourite seven paintings': a great opportunity to be immersed in all things Kørner. In his video he presents some of his paintings to different audiences (kids, old folks, his art professor, birds, etc).
 
One of the works he presents in the video is this mural, commissioned by the Copenhagen City Hall. We are working with John on the publication for his upcoming show at Victoria Miro Gallery, London which opens at the end of November.



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