The Beijing Flower of Sustainibility, in plastik fantastik!

This isn't such a great shot of what was a really nice part of the results of the residency .. one could take a button and there were some blank ones that we could write on. I wrote "kia kaha" on one, and took one that I cannot read! But it looks fabulous!!

This installation was about possibilities of reducing climate change and global warming, by Indonesian artsist Andreas Siagian.

from Bulgarian artist Petko Dourmana

The Dialogue on Arts and Climate Change was a very creative meeting of like minded souls - even though we were artists, architects, designers, performing artists, scientists and environmentalists.

The first day of meetings took place at CAFA- The Chinese Academy of Fine Art.. it was so amazing to be there, on a very beautiful autumn day. Worthy of special note was their extremely well-stocked art supplies shop! We brought a lot of guff back here with us.

The image above is the Beijing Flower of Sustainibility, the gorgeous result of the residency of German artist Insa Winkler and Danish philosopher Oleg Koeford with the students at CAFA.

To Beijing

Next week your Rubbish project representatives are off to Beijing!

Seckon has been invited to join the Dialogue on arts, culture and climate change next week in Beijing. This dialogue is part of an effort to bring artists and cultural workers from the Asia-Europe Meeting countries together with scientists for discussions on issues of climate change and sustainibility. It promises to be a very interesting time.

He is looking forward to networking with other artists, hearing what other people atre doign in terms of a response to the environmental catastrophes that we all share in making and bearing, and he will also share about what we have been up to - most recently the Naga earlier this year.

This is a project of the Asia-Europe Foundation.