Carbon Arts

Imagine living alongside artworks that reflect the choices you and your local communities are making towards
achieving a sustainable future… artworks that live and breathe, that reward your choices and encourage change.

ECHOLOGY brings together Australia’s leading artists and urban developers to create data‐driven public artworks that engage with serious issues in evocative and playful ways. Come along to the seminar and networking event nearest you to find out how you can be part of this exciting opportunity and to meet some of the best international artists working in the field:

Julie FREEMAN (UK), Usman HAQUE (UK), Joyce HINTERDING (AU), Geo HOMSY (US), Natalie JEREMIJENKO (AU/US) and DV ROGERS (NZ/AU)

MELBOURNE | 3pm – 6pm | Monday 26 March| Conference Centre, State Library of Victoria

BRISBANE | 5pm – 8pm | Wednesday 28 March | The Edge, State Library of Queensland

SYDNEY | 2pm – 5pm | Thursday 29 March | Lecture Theatre EG02, College of Fine Arts, UNSW

The Seminar recording is now available for download.

Nourish your vision for a sustainable future with an adventurous travelling cocktail party around the Melbourne Museum with artist Natalie Jeremijenko and chef Mihir Desai.

Mixing together art performance, science and modern cuisine, this one-night-only event will treat guests to three delicious, edible cocktails that each stylishly and humorously explore our gastronomic, economic and material interdependency on other creatures.

Discover the museum at night and a whole new perspective on food futures with the Cross Species Adventure Club.

Thursday 1 December 2011
6.00 – 8.00 PM Cocktails + Performance | Food + Drink available 8.00 – 9.00 PM
Melbourne Museum I 11 Nicholson St, Carlton VIC 3053
$45 Full Price | $35 for Museum Members
Tickets can be booked online by clicking here

DROUGHT AND FLOODING RAINS: THE DINNER

Artist Natalie Jeremijenko and chefs Mihir Desai and Pierre Roelofs create a sensory experience of edible artworks from a fragile land(scape).

Running for over a year in New York and Boston, the celebrated Cross(x)Species Adventure Club Supper Club, comes to Australia for the first time. Five+ paired courses will be served to adventurous palates exploring the unique properties of Australian ecology through modern cuisine techniques and inspired ingredients.

Wednesday 30 November 2011
7:00 – 9:30 PM
Arc One Gallery, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000
$140 I Limited seats available

FORUM: Climate Change, Culture + Cuisine

The future of sustainable food lies in a complete rethink of how humans relate to the natural environment through collective engagement and cultural innovation.

Carbon Arts and Arena Project Space invite you  engage with New York based artist/engineer/activist Prof Natalie Jeremijenko, chef Mihir Desai and guest speakers to explore how we can use the creative potential of science, modernist cuisine and the imagination to connect food production to healthy ecologies.

Monday 28 November 2011
6.00 – 7.30 PM
Arena Project Space I 2 Kerr St Fitzroy, VIC, 3065
$10 Pay at the door I Drinks by donation

SOIREE OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS: Exploring the magic life of soils with Cocktails + Desserts

Pack your bags, we are off for a trip to Avoca, in country Victoria, to meet local experts and agricultural producers to explore our relationship to soils, top and bottom.

Put your feet in the earth, turn your eyes to the stars, and relax while enjoying a rich serving of after dinner treats designed to bring a whole new awareness to terroire and terra firma.

Carbon Arts is pleased to be collaborating with The Avoca Project (TAP) for this event. TAP is the initiative of established Australian artist, Lyndal Jones. The European house provides a home to exhibitions, symposia, projects and events that draw community attention to the historical causes and effects of climate change.

Saturday 26 November 2011
From 8.00 – 9.30 PM (onwards)
The Avoca Project I 16 Dundas St, Avoca, VIC, 3467 (2 hrs drive from Melb)
$35 – Dress Adventurous
Click here to book

What is the role of public art in urban ecology and how do the tactical interventions and guerilla actions of artists extend, augment or counter the master plans of visionary architects and urban designers? This is one question posed by the exhibition and conference Curating Cities: Sydney-Copenhagen curated by the National Institute of Experimental Art. Carbon Arts will be exploring the theme of urban food sustainability with a panel session, the xClinic’s Farmacy AgBag installation and Cross(x)Species edible cocktails for the conference close.

Conference: 22 November 2011, 9am – 6.30pm
Exhibition: 17 Nov – 18 Dec
Customs House, 31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay NSW 2000
$69 conference fee
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Jeremijenko's xClinic and Farmacy

Become a uFarmer! Learn how to create arable land out of thin air

Receive your very own Jeremijenko-designed durable, efficient AgBag, and learn how to fill it with uFoods that equip an urban body to cope with the assault of urban pollutants.

We will step you through the whys and wherefores of closed system agriculture, and how a distributed urban system can produce high value edibles.

We will add a phenological tracking system to your stylish AgBag so that you can become part of a collective experiment in urban farming.

Monday 21 November 2011
2.00 – 5.00 PM
Customs House, Sydney
A NIEA Curating Cities event
$55 | includes workshop and take-home, personalised AgBag
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Carbon Arts and artist Natalie Jeremijenko’s xClinic are colliding with force in November and December 2011 in a mash-up of arts, science, food and sustainability to deliver a series of exciting events under the banner of the Cross(x) Species Adventure Club.

Become an uFarmer at our AgBag workshop in Sydney, taste a biodiverse future with edible cocktails that are delicious to humans and non-humans, or take a trek to the Victorian countryside for a weekend of feral food foraging.

Book here for all events, by selecting from the listings to the left.

Download our full program here.