COAL PRIZE 2014
- Lucie & Simon, Silent world, Paris 2009.
COAL Prize 2014 was awarded in Paris on April 10, 2014 at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature to the artist Åsa Sonjasdotter for her project High Diversity. For this fifth edition, COAL Prize’s theme was PARIS.
The French capital has a great many environmental and social issues: pollution, energy, urban sprawl, transport, land, erosion of biodiversity, adaptation to the climate change, etc. A creative approach to ecology is emerging in new social organizations, alternative production methods, and collaborative ways of living and working which promote user-friendliness as well as an appreciation of the simpler things in life. Having been for a long time the City of Light, the symbol of industrial modernity and progress, will Paris be able to shine again by embodying ecological post modernity?
In 2014, Paris, one of the major global capitals of culture and creation, is inviting artists to show together the central role that art can play in a sustainable and responsible city. Artists, mostly urban, heirs to the diversity embodied by Paris, are invited to shake up, rethink and reinvent the capital in a multipolar connected world in order to define a fairer and more radiant urban culture, in harmony with nature.
- A Lake for Les Halles, Helen Mayer et Newton Harrison, finalists of COAL Prize 2014.
Ten projects nominated
Verdecuratoda…voi, Ettore Favini (Italie, born in 1974)
Archipels, Étienne de France (France, born in 1984)
End of Life, Christina Hemauer et Roman Keller (Suisse, born in 1973 and 1969)
OOZ, Natalie Jeremijenko (Australie, born in 1966)
Marcher, Photographier, Geoffroy Mathieu (France, born in 1972)
A Lake for Les Halles, Helen Mayer et Newton Harrison (USA, born in 1929 and 1932)
One Beat One Tree, Naziha Mestaoui (Belgique, born in 1975)
Plunge Paris, Michael Pinsky (Royaume-Uni, born in 1967)
Urban Replanning, Igor Ponosov (Russie, born in 1980)
High Diversity, Åsa Sonjasdotter (Suède, born in 1966)
Åsa Sonjasdotter, Prize-Winner of COAL Prize 2014 for her project “High Diversity”
Selection committee
Nathalie Blanc, Study leader at CNRS (LADYSS) in urban geography.
Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, Chairwoman of Le Magasin, Art Center in Grenoble.
Claudio Cravero, Director of Turin’s Parco Arte Vivente.
Alice Audouin, Loic Fel, Lauranne Germond, Guillaume Robic and Clément Willemin, COAL’s founders.
COAL Prize's Jury at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris.
Jury
Claude d’Anthenaise, Curator at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.
Valérie Duponchelle, Art critic.
Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Biologist specialized in evolution’ sciences, in botany and in ecology, Professor at Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle.
Catherine Larrère, Philosopher, emeritus professor at Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne University, President of Fondation de l’Écologie Politique.
Dominique Lestel, Research worker in philosophy at Tokyo’s University.
Laurent Le Bon, Director of Centre Pompidou Metz.
Jacques Martial, President of La Villette.
Raphaël Ménard, prospectiv Director of Groupe Egis.
Pierre Oudart, Deputy Director responsible for visual arts at the artistic creation’s head office of Culture and Communication minister.
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