The Green Artists League (GAL) dedicated to collaboartaive art production that inspires positive change, creates work through 2 primary strategies “Ecoventions” and “Articulture”.
Ecoventions challenges viewers complacency towards the earth’s environmental crisis. These works are often participatory and use humour to breach viewers’ defenses and allow space for revelation and change.
Participatory Ecoventions
The ubiquitous plastic bottle in our landfills, watersheds, and elsewhere are the quintessential signifier of frivolous consumer waste and environmental pollution. Frogs are an important indicator species.more —>
"Recently Homeless Polar Bear Needs Ice"
“Recently Homeless Polar Bear Needs Ice” A recently homeless polar bear was spotted in downtown Boston during lunch hour. She was accompanied by several members of the Green Artists League who passed out cards asking for help in saving her vanishing habitat. more —>
“Frog Prince: A Fairy Terror“ Is a perverse revision of the children’s fairy tale the Frog Prince. more —>
“Metamorphosis: Hungry Ghost” Inspired by Kafka’s short story, Metamorphosis and Buddhist Cosmology, GAL’s roaming intervention, “Metamorphosis: Hungry Ghost” is a cautionary tale of excessive consumption. more —>
Metamorphosis: Hungry Ghost
“Savage Rituals” This roaming interventionist performance, addressed Americans’ ambivalent, veiled as romanticized, relationship to Nature. Our “friendly” polar bear offered gifts of cards to people on the street and in commercial establishments. These cards were inscribed with one of twenty-six “Savage Rituals”. These rituals, when performed, would press for a more intimate relationship with Nature and were often humorous and always challenging. more —>
“Air Your Dirty Laundry” “The Truth will set you free”. Tapping into people’s guilt and denial of poor environmental behavior, GAL offered the public to “come clean” by giving public “eco-confessions” and airing their dirty laundry. more —>
Non-Performative Ecoventions
“Coal War” GAL has made exposing the “dirty truth” about coal as a “clean” energy source one of its top priorities. As our society’s wants and needs grow, the pressures being put on our natural resources are overwhelming. The environmental diversity of our flora and fauna is collapsing around the world under this strain. more —>
"Coal Wars" Debra Cinamon protests
“Green Haiku” GAL created several temporary installations of site-inspired “Green Haiku” along the Newburyport waterfront. The installation site at an urban park and river boardwalk, brings into focus how the natural environment is “developed” and tamed for human consumption. Pedestrians discovering these “Green Haiku” were given the opportunity to reflect on their experience and influence on Nature. more —>