The River Symposium on Art, Ecopower and the Liberation of Energy<\/p>\r\n\r\n
CEU, Budapest (V. N\u00e1dor u. 9.) Haj\u00f3kir\u00e1ndul\u00e1s Szentendr\u00e9re R\u00e9sztvev\u0151k:\u00a0 Axel Braun, Peter Coates, Ian Fairlie, Jozsef R. Juh\u00e1sz, Cecylia Malik, Ilona N\u00e9meth, James Prosek, Martin Schmid and Nick Thorpe<\/p>\r\n\r\n The River Symposium on Art, Ecopower and the Liberation of Energy<\/em> considers the political, social and ecological proportions of the river and examines it as a site of power. While appreciating the natural strength, kinetic energy and resilience of rivers, the discussion will also take into account political struggles over their use, as well as schemes to control and harness their flows. The presentations will reconstruct the environmental history of rivers and the role of human agency in shaping them, with the social, political and artistic histories of the River Danube forming a particular focus of the symposium. Along with examining critical approaches to energy policy and the ecopower associated with rivers, the symposium will also introduce innovative attempts from outside the technocratic mainstream to visualise and bring about the liberation of energy. The River Symposium provides a setting for artists, environmental historians, scientists and activists to bridge their fields and investigate the inter-streaming of ecology, energy and power. The symposium will also take a boat trip on the Danube for more fluid discussions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Peter Coates is a leading environmental historian from Bristol University and author of A Story of Six Rivers: History, Culture and Ecology<\/em> (2013), James Prosek is an artist, writer, naturalist and Yale graduate whose work focuses on biodiversity and experiencing the natural world, while Cecylia Malik is an artist and activist whose work revolves around environmental and socio-political issues in her home town of Krak\u00f3w.\u00a0 Ian Fairlie is an independent consultant on radioactivity and former government advisor on nuclear power from London, while Axel Braun is a D\u00fcsseldorf-based artist whose work has looked at how humans are altering landscapes through large-scale technological interventions. Martin Schmid is associate professor for environmental history at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna specialising on the River Danube and Nick Thorpe is a Budapest-based BBC correspondent for Central Europe and the author of The Danube – A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest<\/em> (2013). Ilona N\u00e9meth is a Bratislava-based artist whose practice focuses on public art and socially engaged issues, while Jozsef R. Juh\u00e1sz is a performance artist and poet living in Budapest, and both were involved in artistic actions over the Gab\u010d\u00edkovo Dam on the Danube.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\n 2014. okt\u00f3ber 3. (p\u00e9ntek) 14.00-19.00<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\n 2014. okt\u00f3ber 4 (szombat), 10.00-17.30<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n