REMNANT/EMERGENCY ArtLab

30 July 2010

The REMNANT/EMERGENCY CLINIC is a new ArtLab project now underway.

A ‘rapid response’ team of international ‘ecological health’ workers - each practicing media artists, designers and engineers - will work together for the REMNANT/EMERGENCY CLINIC over 2010-12. Keith Armstrong, Natalie Jeremijenko, James Muller, Tony Fry and Leah Barclay are the lead artists/designers for this interdisciplinary lab engaging with critical contemporary environmental issues.

The artists aim to address our ecological health through artistic action, working with humour, direct action and social networking. This process starts with Lab events in different geographical sites - each responding to their location and the perspectives of the different artists who will lead them. The public can discuss their ecological health concerns with these ‘creative physicians’. They leave with preparations and prescriptions that are not for pharmaceuticals, but for projects that are ecologically sensitive and culturally engaged. These projects will be coordinated through social networking, and support each other through shared video, sensor-data, collaboration and discussion of the creative experiments. The Lab will be further supported by three full time Masters Students funded by QUT Creative Industries.

The REMNANT/EMERGENCY Lab program entails:

  1. 'The Urmadic (Moveable) City', led by Tony Fry, Brisbane, September 2010
  2. 'The Urmadic Bat Colony', led by Natalie Jeremijenko and Keith Armstrong, Sydney Botanical Gardens Botanical Gardens (as part of Participatory Design Conference supported by UTS), and The Edge, Brisbane, November 2010
  3. 'Eco-Sapienz: Extinction or adaptation,  Evolution or Revolution', led by Keith Armstrong and James Muller, New Plymouth, New Zealand, January 2011
  4. 'X-Clinic 1': New York-based project, led by Natalie Jeremijenko, NYU Environmental Health Clinic, USA, May 2011
  5. 'X-Clinic - Hybrid' Asia-based project, in Asia (details to be confirmed)
To find out more about REMNANT/EMERGENCY Lab as the project develops, stay tuned to the project website - www.remnantartlab.com

Key REMNANT/EMERGENCY Lab artists and partners include:

The REMNANT/EMERGENCY Lab was supported by the Inter-Arts Office of the Australia Council through the ArtLab initiative. ArtLab brings together new interdisciplinary collaborations for creative research programs. Previous ArtLab projects include:

Image credits: REMNANT/EMERGENCY Lab artist Natalie Jeremijenko in conversation, image courtesy Keith Armstrong.

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