If Paradise Is Half As Nice is an artist initiated project that leaves behind the comforts of a traditional artists’ studio to instead pursue the creation of artworks by finding and using abandoned buildings as sites for artistic production.
https://vimeo.com/172581587 Soil City is a long term project initiated by Open Jar Collective to reimagine the city as if soil matters. Read more about the project. Launched at Glasgow International 2016 we undertook a period of field research to initiate a conversation about soil. This included a Soil City Lab open every day from the…
Vector Association is an artists & curators non-profit non-governmental organization initiated in Iași (Romania) in 2001 by the artist Matei Bejenaru. The association developed a series of projects and programmes as Periferic Biennial (2003-2008) cARTier ‘social culture’ project (2004-2007) Vector Gallery (2003-2007) etc. Current projects developed by Vector are Vector Publications (2010 – ongoing) publishing Vector – critical research in context book series Vector Studio (2007 – ongoing) conceived by Catalin Gheorghe as a platform for critical research and art production based on the understanding of art as experimental journalism being run in collaboration with Dan Acostioaei and Cristian Nae with the support of George Enescu National University of the Arts in Iasi; APSIS Platform (Art in the Public Space of Iasi) conceived by Dan Acostioaei with the intention to collaboratively produce artworks in public space; and Ecologies of thinking conceived by Cristian Nae with the intention to organize residencies debates publications and communitarian art projects.
Wetlands Estonoa Learning Center born as a student initiated place based service learning project is a renowned outdoor/indoor ecological education center.