The Mead Gallery at the University of Warwick is planning an exhibition with the working title Artists’ Plans for an Era of Finite Resources. It brings together works by contemporary artists that offer solutions to the issues that arise from an increasing world population and finite natural resources. Artists under discussion include Angela Ferreira, Nils Norman, Marjetica Potrc and an older work by Joseph Beuys.
The exhibition will examine some of the key research interests of the University of Warwick, one of the top research universities in the UK. In just a few more decades, the world’s population will exceed 9 billion, 70 percent of whom will live in cities. Among the most important undertakings this century will be the development of sustainable solutions to keep the world’s population safe, healthy, prosperous and well-informed. In view of this, the University of Warwick has established a Global Priorities Programme. It focuses Warwick’s world-class, multidisciplinary research on key areas of international significance. Themes for the programme include Energy, Food Security, Global Governance, Individual Behaviour, Innovative Manufacturing and International Development.
Furthermore, the University of Warwick is also the British partner in the Center for Urban Science and Progress in (CUSP), an applied science research institute that is being created by New York University and The Polytechnic Institute of New York with a consortium of world-class universities and the foremost international tech companies to address the needs of cities.
Within this context, our exhibition will be held from 1 May – 22 June 2013 at the University’s Mead Gallery. It will act as focal point for the University’s mulitidisciplinary discourse about the actions that individuals, organisations and governments can take to sustain and support the growing population of the world. Many significant exhibitions have been organised and held at the Mead Gallery including Lindsay Seers: It has to be this way in 2010, Hannah Starkey in 2011 and The Indiscipline of Painting in 2012, in collaboration with Tate St Ives. I attach a copy of our facilities report.
We would very much like to include Jef Geys’ Quadra Medicinale of 2009 in the exhibition. I would welcome your advice on how I might take this forward.
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