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A group of artists and researchers from the University of Murcia, headed by Clara Boj, Virginia Villaplana and Pedro Ortuño, along with ecology professor Ángel Pérez Ruzafa, and the participation of other members of the Research Group Art and Identity Policies, as well as of the artist and researcher Diego Díaz of the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, are behind the project: "Reset> Mar Menor: Laboratory of imagery for a landscape in crisis".
Located in the connection between Art and Science, the project proposes to use the capacity of contemporary art and visual practices as a vehicle to imagine the Mar Menor collectively, enunciated as a common good and projected through various knowledges and interdisciplinary collaboration.
The project will extend over three years (2017-2020), and will include very diverse actions: Creative Expeditions to the Mar Menor of the hand of contemporary scientists and creators, an international workshop of art and science for the development of experimental proposals that in the lagoon and its problems, an international call for the development of art-science projects on the Mar Menor, or an international symposium Art and Science: artistic practices in the Anthropocene, with the intervention of the most outstanding agents at the confluence art-science among others.
The project is funded by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, through its Call for Citizen Art.
The Foundation is committed to finance projects related to two major areas that contribute to the fullness of the human being in a habitable world: Food to sustain life, and art to enrich the spirit.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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