COAL PRIZE ART&ENVIRONMENT 2011
The COAL Art & Environment prize was launched in 2010 by the French association COAL, the coalition for art and sustainable development, to reward a project about the environment by a contemporary artist.
The winner is chosen by a jury of personalities from the worlds of contemporary art, research, ecology and sustainable development, out of 10 finalists selected from an international call for entries.
The COAL Prize 2011, worth 10 000 euros, comes under the auspices of the french Ministry of Culture and Communication, the National Centre of Fine Arts (CNAP), and enjoys the support of PwC and a private benefactor.
Special mention : To mark 2011 the International Year of the Forest and promote entries on this theme in 2011, a second prize will reward entries that focus on forest issues.
Schedule
The call for entries opened on 1 December 2010.
The application period closes on 30 April 2011.
The prize will be awarded on May 24th 2011 at Le laboratoire.
Environment
Today, environmental degradation represents a growing concern, covering a very wide field:
- resource management and depletion: water, energy, waste…
- crisis factors: system of production and consumption, pollution, demographics, land use…
- environmental crises: climate change, rising water levels, loss of biodiversity…
- conceptual framework: environmental law, shared assets, social justice, community harmony…
Selection committee
Patrick Degeorges, Chargé de mission, direction de l’eau et de la biodiversité, Ministère de l’écologie
Eva Hober, Directrice de la galerie Eva Hober
Sacha Kagan, Fondateur du Réseau Cultura21
Sylvain Lambert, Associé, service développement durable, PwC
Denis Pansu, Directeur de la FING (Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération)
Elisabeth Reiss, Directrice d’Ethicity
Céline Roblot, Chargée de mission développement durable, Ministère de la culture
Theresa von Wuthenau, Coordinatrice et porte parole d’Imagine2020
L’équipe de COAL (Lauranne, Guillaume, Loïc, Clément, Alice)
Jury
Bernard Blistène, Directeur du département du développement culturel du Centre Pompidou et directeur artistique du Nouveau Festival.
Dominique Bourg, Philosophe, IEP, UTT, membre du comité de veille écologique de la Fondation Nicolas Hulot
David Buckland, Fondateur et directeur de Cape Farewell (GB)
Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, Presidente du Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP)
David Edwards, Fondateur du Laboratoire
Philippe Jousse, Directeur de la galerie Jousse Entreprise
Jacques Rocher, Président de la Fondation Yves Rocher
Jean-Pierre Sicard, Directeur Général Délégué, CDC Climat
Laurence Tubiana, Fondatrice de l’Institut pour le Développement durable et les relations internationales (IDDRI)
Selection of entries
The entry selection criteria take stock of the artistic value, relevance (understanding the issues), originality (ability to introduce novel approaches, themes, and points of view), pedagogy (ability to get a message across, to raise awareness), a social and participative approach (engagement, testimony, efficiency, societal dynamics), eco-design, feasibility.
An artist’s specialisation on the environment is not a selection criterion. The aim of the prize is to encourage artists to focus on environmental issues.
An internationally renowned scientific committee
As part of the call for entries, COAL is organizing a meeting between artists and members of the scientific committee, with a view to providing tailored guidance. This scientific committee is made up of:
Edouard Bard, climatologist, Collège de France, science academy, CNRS
Nathalie Blanc, geographer, CNRS UMR LADYSS
Dominique Bourg, philosopher, IEP, UTT, member of the ecology watch committee of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation,
Denis Couvet, ecologist, MNHN, polytechnic,
Alain Grandjean, associate director, Carbone 4, member of the ecology watch committee of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation.
Coal prize award ceremony
The COAL Art & Environment Prize ceremony is a unique event held in a symbolic location, attended by the artist finalists and personalities from the world of art and sustainable development.
Entries by artist finalists are displayed to promote networking with bodies and authorities, which could facilitate the future realisation of projects.
Support for entries after the COAL prize
Beyond the award ceremony, the COAL prize is an opportunity to promote the entries and artists involved and to demonstrate the creative potential of fine arts with regards to the environment and related issues.
COAL fosters the networking of artists with scientists and stakeholders, and produces, encourages and promotes the numerous entries to the COAL Prize at exhibitions, events and commissions.
Application package
This should comprise the following documents, assembled in a single PDF file:
- A Curriculum Vitae and a portfolio
- A summary and illustrated description of the entry, detailing its artistic aspects and its relevance to the environment
- A note on the technical aspects of the entry, notably in terms of the construction and means of production
-An estimated budget
Submission
Deadline 30 April 2011
All proposals should be submitted to the COAL FTP – http://www.projetcoal.fr/upload/ server at before 30 April 2011.
Particular conditions
By entering this competition, applicants expressly authorize the COAL association to publish, reproduce and display in public all or part of the elements of their entry, for any purposes linked to the promotion and communication of the COAL project, on all platforms, media, in all countries and for the LEGAL DURATION OF THE COPYRIGHT. Entries submitted but not selected will be held in the archives of the COAL association. They will, however, remain the property of their authors.
Participation in this call entails the full acceptance of the conditions laid out above.
Contact
COAL www.projetcoal.fr
For any further requests please write to contact@projetcoal.fr
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