February 2010
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Recent and Upcoming Projects
2011 - Publication - essay/book chapter “Possible Worlds” in Public Art of the Sustainable City: the Land Art Generator UAE / 2010 2011 (June) NEW Workshop: Arts Collaborative Sustainable Infrastructure Design at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada 2011 (April) – Presenter – Staging Sustainability: Arts, Community, Culture, Environment. York University, Toronto...
Feb 12th
Projects Archive
Summer 2009 - A Green Vision - project at Dubai, United Arab Emirates A Green Vision was a 4-part project focused on Arts, Design and Sustainability - a first for Dubai. It was first a panel discussion and public forum (by invitation); this was followed by a residency for UAE artists, and then a juried exhibition. A catalogue and blogsite document the project. My role as International Curator...
Feb 12th
December 2009
3 posts
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Beth Carruthers Biography
My work has for more than 20 years explored the ethics of the human-world relationship. Academically, my focus is Posthumanism, Ethics, Ontology and the role of the Aesthetic in engendering Environmental Values. I write, publish and lecture internationally. I also work as an independent consultant in Arts & Sustainability. In 2006 I was commissioned by the Canadian Commission for...
Dec 20th
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Statement
I am interested in the intertwining of aesthetic experience and ethics within cultures and communities. When I say cultures and communities, I include wild places, other species – the other-than-human. We do not live in this world alone, and community is an ongoing intimate interchange – a relationship we do not often consider, since we dwell within...
Dec 20th
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Contact Beth Carruthers
My home base is coastal British Columbia, Canada. I am best reached via email. beth@bethcarruthers.com
Dec 20th
January 2009
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writings
Art, Place and the Meaning of Home An essay commissioned by the Vancouver Board of Parks for the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project In Search of a Deep Aesthetics Through the Eye of the Heart - In Search of a Deep Aesthetics is a first “working paper” for a book on Aesthetics, Ethics and Environmental Values. A paper given at Thinking Through Nature, University of Oregon, 2008 ...
Jan 15th