Marfa Dialogues / Diálogos en Marfa
Marfa, TexasJoin us September 17-19, 2010 for our first conference about the border, Marfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa.
Join us September 17-19, 2010 for our first conference about the border, Marfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa.
Our 2012 fall visual arts exhibition, Carbon 13, presents newly commissioned works by artists that propose a creative response to climate change aimed at stimulating discourse and a wider engagement with the climate debate. Curated by David Buckland. Opening reception on Friday, 31 August 2012.
In conjunction with our ongoing partnership with the Washington Spectator, and our co-sponsors The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company, we are hosting our second Marfa Dialogues, which this year will address complex issues associated with environmental sustainability.
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Ballroom Marfa and the Public Concern Foundation will bring the Marfa Dialogues to New York in October-November 2013 as we continue our examination of climate change science, environmental activism and artistic practice.
Quiet Earth, an exhibition curated by Fairfax Dorn as part of Marfa Dialogues/New York, features environmentally-engaged works from the 1970s to the present.
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Ballroom Marfa and the Public Concern Foundation will bring Marfa Dialogues to St. Louis from July 30 – August 3, 2014 as we continue our examination of artistic practice, climate change science, and civic engagement.
As part of Marfa Dialogues/Houston, Lucky Dragons, an experimental music group from Los Angeles, will perform a site-specific work that features a collaboration with Houston-based vocalists, arranged alongside an array of environmental field recordings and live electronics; a composition that lyrically speaks to biodiversity, human ecological impact and climate change as a loss of complexity in a moment of transition.
Ballroom Marfa, FotoFest International and the Public Concern Foundation will bring Marfa Dialogues to Houston in March 2016 as part of the FotoFest 2016 Biennial. Join us for MD/HOU as we consider the scale of climate change from the perspective of artistic practice, public policy, critical theory, and environmental science.