COAL PRIZE 2011
- Beuys’ acorns, Ackroyd & Harvey, finalists of COAL Prize 2011.
COAL Prize 2011 was awarded in Paris on May 24, 2011 at Laboratoire to the artist Stefan Shankland for his project Marbre d’Ici. For its second edition, COAL Prize’s theme was 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…
- Jalan Jati, Collectif The Migrant Ecologies Project, finalists of COAL Prize 2011.
14 nominated projects
Beuys’ Acorns, Ackroyd & Harvey (UK)
Particle Falls, Andrea Polli et Chuck Varga (US)
Pégase d’Arnaud, Verley & Philemon (FR)
Folia apotropaïca, Art orienté Objet (FR)
Rane-Char, Dr Daro Montag (UK)
Kreislauf, Das numen (ALL)
Super meal, Erik Sjodin (SW)
Topique-eau, Isabelle Daeron (FR)
Infinity Cubelab, Jae Rhim Lee (US)
Jalan Jati, The Migrant Ecologies Project (SG)
Perpetual Amazonia, Lucy+Jorge Orta (FR)
Arctic Conquistadors, Olga Kisseleva (RU)
Dammed waters, de Peter Fend (US)
Marbre d’ici, Stefan Shankland (FR)
- Marbre d’ici, Stefan Shankland, Prize-winner of COAL Prize 2011.
Stefan Shankland, Prize-winner of COAL Prize 2011 for his project Marbre d’Ici
- Folia apotropaïca, Art orienté Objet.
Prize-winner of the special distinction for International Year of Forests : Art orienté Objet and Ackroyd & Harvey
Folia apotropaïca, Art orienté Objet (FR). >> READ MORE
Beuys’ Acorns, Ackroyd & Harvey (UK). >> READ MORE
Selection committee
Patrick Degeorges, Representative, water management and biodiversity at Ecology’s minister;
Eva Hober, Director of Eva Hober’s Gallery;
Sacha Kagan, Founder of Cultura21′s network;
Sylvain Lambert, Partner, sustainable development department, PwC;
Elisabeth Reiss, Ethicity’s Director;
Billy, COAL’s individual donor;
Céline Roblot, in charge of sustainable development at minister of Culture;
Theresa von Wuthenau, Coordinator and spokesperson of Imagine 2020;
and COAL’s team.
Jury
Bernard Blistène, Director of cultural development’s department of Centre Pompidou and artistic director of Nouveau Festival;
Dominique Bourg, Philosopher, IEP, UTT, member of the monitoring committee of the ecological Nicolas Hulot Foundation;
David Buckland, Founder and director of Cape Farewell (GB);
Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, President of National Center for Plastic Arts (CNAP);
David Edwards, Founder of Laboratoire;
Philippe Jousse, Director of Jousse Entreprise’s Gallery;
Jacques Rocher, President of Yves Rocher’s foundation;
Jean-Pierre Sicard, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, CDC Climat;
Laurence Tubiana, Founder of Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI).
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