Living Green: Examining Sustainability

Living Green: Examining Sustainability

October 30 - December 11, 2004

Living Green: Examining Sustainability Opens at ICA at MECA

The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art (ICA at MECA) and Architalx have partnered to present the exhibition Living Green: Examining Sustainability, opening on October 30.

The three galleries within the ICA will each host a different exhibit. In the front gallery, Marguerite Kahrl will display her “art cars,” functional vehicles made from recycled materials. The center gallery will host an installation by the international collective “spurse”. The rear gallery features Ten Shades of Green, curated by London-based architect and writer Peter Buchanan and organized by The Architectural League of New York.

Living Green is made possible thanks to the support of Harriman Associates, CBRE: The Boulos Company, Maine Arts Commission, Maine Community Foundation, Correct Building Products, Portland Builders, PDT Architects and Architect James Sterling, Scott Simons Architects.

Related activities include:

October 27: Demonstration Day

Marguerite Kahrl with Paul Ruff at the Cathedral School at 1:30 p.m.

October 28: Marguerite Kahrl Lecture

Porteous, 6 p.m., Free and open to the public

October 30: Opening Reception for Living Green

5-7 pm, ICA at MECA

November 1: Peter Buchanan Lecture

7 pm Portland Museum of Art, $8

November 4: First Thursday Panel Discussion

sustaining what: after nature—a history of betrayal

Panel discussion regarding imminent cartographies and mutational inquiries after nature

December 11: Symposium: investigating catastrophic sustainability A one-day symposium to rethink the concept and practices of sustainability within a framework of non-equilibrial and catastrophic dynamicism.