tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40593902800204204792024-03-13T03:15:16.993-07:00Pushing RocksAviva Rahmani blogs about ecological art, global warming and environmental science, politics and current events in the world at large and her own practice.AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.comBlogger154125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-51875580166140120822020-04-02T12:56:00.000-07:002020-04-02T13:07:59.500-07:00Links to published material on The Blued Trees Symphony<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">GIS Mapping: </span></u></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.gulftogulf.org/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration-line: none;">www.gulftogulf.org</span></a><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">webpage with</span><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">map of Blued Trees locations</span><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">: </span></b><a href="http://www.gulftogulf.org/project_item/blued_trees/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">http://www.gulftogulf.org/project_item/blued_trees/</span></a><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk11428377"><b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Audio podcasts and links:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">"Using ecological art to spark environmental conservation"</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> interview with Kamea Chayne on the Green Dreamer podcast: </span><a href="https://greendreamer.com/podcast/aviva-rahmani-ecological-artist" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://greendreamer.com/podcast/aviva-rahmani-ecological-artist</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> aired July 11, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The Art of Protecting Lands: Aviva Rahmani a State of the Art podcast </span><a href="https://art19.com/shows/state-of-the-art/episodes/41e5ab5d-611a-47f8-9238-c262581562df" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://art19.com/shows/state-of-the-art/episodes/41e5ab5d-611a-47f8-9238-c262581562df</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> <span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">recorded April 8th, 2019</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk11428672"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The Sarah West Love show, a live radio conversation recorded with Gale Elston, Robin Scully and Aviva Rahmani about expanding The Blued Trees Symphony in Virginia: </span></a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheWorkFM/videos/349790569212554/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://www.facebook.com/TheWorkFM/videos/349790569212554/</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> April 2nd, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Artist Series: Aviva Rahmani’s work with VARA, land use and environmental law,” The Art Law podcast, interview with Steve Schindler & Katie Wilson-Milne </span><a href="http://artlawpodcast.com/2018/11/08/artist-series-aviva-rahmanis-work-with-vara-land-use-and-environmental-law/#more-472" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">http://artlawpodcast.com/2018/11/08/artist-series-aviva-rahmanis-work-with-vara-land-use-and-environmental-law/#more-472</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> November 8, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration-line: none;">“Making the trees sing: Using art to try to stop pipelines” Day 6 CBC Radio Canadian Broadcasting<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk1749992">, </a></span></span><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/making-the-trees-sing-using-art-to-try-to-stop-pipelines-1.4634839" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/making-the-trees-sing-using-art-to-try-to-stop-pipelines-1.4634839</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration-line: none;"> April 28, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Artist Blocked Pipeline with Blued Trees Symphony,” Earth911, interview by Mitch Ratcliffe</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="https://earth911.com/podcast/podcast-may-7-2018/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://earth911.com/podcast/podcast-may-7-2018/</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> May 7, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk11428815">“Interview with Aviva Rahmani” on the Environmental Art Podcast <o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">hosted by Ariel Garber:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rbeP5t0_5W4SUi4_u6WcWiFtQJjG9TewrnZYkTxj8BG_u81S55P4Avl6Wikxs0TAK5Mq8i0rIcCA7GRTB8GFpoCbRS1hcGg7-n56HSFmChAGl9BaJRNDTFdm9o8ymsNWTboW8kPc56pgJr8uOD9eJVozasGD7SnGgo343Z4vZTPkdvqrmcpf44-LNE7KNoxxkZK3ObazrQkX_9NN_4mmqUhqxQ37lvXn&c=4vUKUQXQx6kY0wd0fjsN3nJjT1vK2cpR765A1lqMpwUzXr0ZQbNrcw==&ch=A_fAdYfIwkydNmjBG2zNmglCWZu57878rq1ZebofI139PRXJLRctvQ==" style="color: purple;" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://soundcloud.com/rielarber/aviva-rahmani-interview</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration-line: none;">May 26, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“One-on-One” in <i>Canvas Magazine</i> November/ December 2019 issue https://files.constantcontact.com/9f11d50b001/975c5636-d9d3-477d-a7f4-184088263fd1.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Conversations Aviva Rahmani’s “Blued Trees Symphony”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> A NYFA Interview </span><a href="https://current.nyfa.org/post/178288450088/conversations-aviva-rahmanis-blued-trees" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://current.nyfa.org/post/178288450088/conversations-aviva-rahmanis-blued-trees</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> posted September 20, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Edited Interview with Mitch Ratcliffe of Earth911:<span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><a href="https://earth911.com/inspire/artist-blocks-fracking/" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration-line: none;">https://earth911.com/inspire/artist-blocks-fracking/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration-line: none;"> May 8, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Matuseviciute, Rugile. “Artist Uses Art To Stop Construction Of A Gas Pipeline” </span><a href="https://www.demilked.com/artist-uses-art-to-stop-construction-of-a-gas-pipeline/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://www.demilked.com/artist-uses-art-to-stop-construction-of-a-gas-pipeline/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration-line: none;">April 26, 2018.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Sutton, Benjamin “Testing the Legal Power of Art to Stop a Pipeline”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://hyperallergic.com/439553/aviva-rahmani-cardozo-school-of-law-stop-a-pipeline/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://hyperallergic.com/439553/aviva-rahmani-cardozo-school-of-law-stop-a-pipeline/</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">April 24, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Bajaj, Jaya. “Art, Copyright, and Activism: Could the Intersection of Environmental Art and Copyright Law Provide a New Avenue for Activists to Protest Various Forms of Exploitation?”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Volume 15, Issue 1, Article 3 </span><a href="https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1268&context=njtip" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1268&context=njtip</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> Spring 2017<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Stambouli, Anissa. “Trash Talk, Eco-Activist Artwork and Sustainable Creativity” published by the online magazine,<i> INSPADES</i> </span><a href="https://astamdesigns.org/2017/07/11/trash-talk-eco-activist-artwork-and-sustainable-creativity/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://astamdesigns.org/2017/07/11/trash-talk-eco-activist-artwork-and-sustainable-creativity/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration-line: none;"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration-line: none;">December, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Rossi, Izzy. “Local Activists Use Art to Block Pipeline” Collegiate Times<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">online publication available at: </span><a href="http://www.collegiatetimes.com/news/local-activists-use-art-t.blockpipeline/article_33bfd510-ae9a-11e6-8034-1719d6c51df1.html" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">http://www.collegiatetimes.com/news/local-activists-use-art-t.blockpipeline/article_33bfd510-ae9a-11e6-8034-1719d6c51df1.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">November 19, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Lim, Audrea. “How Land Art Lived and Died to Stop a Fracked Gas Pipeline and How It Lives Again” Village Voice available at: </span><a href="https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/06/29/how-land-art-lived-and-died-to-stop-a-fracked-gas-pipeline-and-how-it-lives-again/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/06/29/how-land-art-lived-and-died-to-stop-a-fracked-gas-pipeline-and-how-it-lives-again/</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">June 27, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Averett, Nancy. “An artist uses her creativity to fight the construction of natural gas pipelines,” Earth Island Journal online publication available at: </span><a href="http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/copyrighting_nature/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/copyrighting_nature/</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> June 16, 2016 originally published here: </span><a href="http://www.goethe.de/ins/cz/prj/fup/en15648790.htm" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">http://www.goethe.de/ins/cz/prj/fup/en15648790.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Kaplan, Isaac. “This Nonprofit Is Willing to Bet That Art Can Change the World” Artsy, online publication available at: </span><a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-nonprofit-bet-art-change" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-nonprofit-bet-art-change</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> May 1, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Denson, Roger. “Earth Day EcoArt Confronts Deforestation, Fracking, Nuclear Hazards In Eastern US Woodlands,” Huffington Post online publication available at: </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-roger-denson/earth-day-ecoart-confront_b_9721354.html" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-roger-denson/earth-day-ecoart-confront_b_9721354.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> April, 21, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Williams, Wes. “Landowners Put Hope in Art Project to Combat Pipeline,” WVTF.org online publication available at: </span><a href="http://wvtf.org/post/landowners-put-hope-art-project-combat-pipeline#stream/0" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">http://wvtf.org/post/landowners-put-hope-art-project-combat-pipeline#stream/0</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> April, 19, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Collins, Shay. Aviva Rahmani’s Blued Trees and the Fight Against Pipelines” <i>The Cornell Daily Sun</i> </span><a href="http://cornellsun.com/2015/12/03/aviva-rahmanis-blued-trees-and-the-fight-against-pipelines/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">http://cornellsun.com/2015/12/03/aviva-rahmanis-blued-trees-and-the-fight-against-pipelines/</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> December 3, 2015.<span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Rahmani, Aviva. “<i>Blued Trees</i> on the front lines journal excerpts” <i>The Brooklyn Rail</i> available at: </span><a href="https://brooklynrail.org/2015/11/criticspage/blued-trees-on-the-front-lines-journal-excerpts" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://brooklynrail.org/2015/11/criticspage/blued-trees-on-the-front-lines-journal-excerpts</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> November, 5th, 2015.<span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Using copyright law as an artistic strategy” by ikonotv on tumblr </span><a href="https://ikonotv.tumblr.com/post/130191702053/using-copyright-law-as-an-artistic-strategy" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">https://ikonotv.tumblr.com/post/130191702053/using-copyright-law-as-an-artistic-strategy</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration-line: none;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">September 30, 2015.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Talking About Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art and Sexual Violence</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> panel with </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lynn.l.leeson?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARC2_4NRVpipCKki0eVMWQlkMMTXojNXFBubA9X70nZx5x-JchZwCNmEpHYpB8Xmv2EQc_GrIALhTXGQ&fref=mentions" style="color: purple;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Lynn Hershman Leeson</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, Suzanne Lacy, Nancy Princenthal (wav file recording:</span> <a href="https://tinyurl.com/sqzjt7v" style="color: purple;">https://tinyurl.com/sqzjt7v</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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First image: "<span style="background: white;">26 Grasses"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"I counted twenty-six different species of native grasses from alongside my dirt driveway around my birthday last month. I gathered them to make a palette. First, I created a soft ground monoprint, painting in with a brush a few shadows of the grasses that were placed in the ground. After printing once in translucent carbon black, I placed more grasses on the copper plate and we printed again in sepia. With each print, I felt like I was painting a monoprint story, having a conversation between the precious species diversity some of us are fighting to protect and my own willingness to participate with others in that struggle. The grass seeds survived the printing and will be planted where I originally found them." - Aviva Rahmani 2012</span></div>
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AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-50571839043513343082018-04-22T18:12:00.000-07:002018-04-22T18:16:09.896-07:00The Mock Trial for The Blued Trees Symphony Almost One Year After Beginning My Fellowship with The Blade of GrassWhen I received my fellowship, I identified that my most important goal was a legal test case for the premises in my project for <i>The Blued Trees Symphony</i>. While I waited for that opportunity, the Mountain Valley Pipelines went through the Appalachias like the Romans cutting down the Oak forests of the Druids.<br />
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I wanted to challenge the categories protected by the Visual Artists Right Act under copyright law. I wanted to eliminate the boundaries between habitat specific environmental sciences and art that is integral to the local ecosystem. I wanted to press the development of an art that was profoundly synesthetic, a simultaneously symphonic and a vast painterly installation: sonified biogeographic sculpture. As it turned out, no lawyer was willing to venture into the courtroom without the case law precedents. So we are staging a Mock Trial April 25, 2018 at the Cardozo School of Law<span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">: </span><a data-lynx-mode="origin" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abladeofgrass.org%2Fevents%2Fmock-trial%2F&h=ATP3Pn6znpgwSYn4ue94bTOltakIFb-EDh_NFlCP22OgoiXfDPD1Y1TZj9QtI3IDZy10N4xdvPsARQ-mXxUAgkmfre7FUylz-5pDVIwSb6MeqxwCNvPpBrMYAzhLupPCMXHw1kFO" href="http://www.abladeofgrass.org/events/mock-trial/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">www.abladeofgrass.org/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span>events/mock-trial/</a><br />
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Argue with us in real time about how Earth rights and the spirit of art could merge to assert a new definition of public good in this Mock Trial. <i>The Blued Trees Symphony</i>, will be the plaintiff against a natural gas corporation bent on destroying art, habitat, and communities, for private profit. The trial will take place with real lawyers, witnesses, a jury, a real judge, a real decision and be followed by a conversation with the audience. The goal is to inspire other lawyers to establish new case law. The defense will be represented by Gale Elston and co-counsel Steven Honigman.<br />
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AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-6718978562936495192017-06-23T11:54:00.001-07:002017-06-24T16:39:15.190-07:00Getting up to speed with "The Blued Trees Symphony"I haven't posted here in a long time because getting work done has taken precedence over reporting on work done. My biggest news has been the award of a fellowship with A Blade of Grass: http://www.abladeofgrass.org/fellows/aviva-rahmani/.<br />
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The easiest way to keep track of my work on a daily basis is to personally friend me on Facebook (FB). Many personal comments are mixed in there with professional announcements, and I would welcome your presence. You may also follow <i>The Blued Trees Symphony</i> FB page. But occasionally there's something really important that's too long for FB. This is one of those occassions: my formal comments to the Federal Regulatory Commission (FERC) in Virginia to save the <i>Blued Trees</i> there. I am posting it below, because I hope that it will bring attention to an entirely new way of thinking about the relationships between art, environmental science, and the legal premises that determine public policy.</div>
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For anyone who has followed my work, you may know that <i>The Blued Trees Symphony</i> challenges conventional ideas about copyright law, as defined by the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA). In Virginia, where over 200 trees have been painted, environmentalists and supporters of this project have just submitted formal comments to oppose the Mountain Valley Pipeline there. There will then be a period of 45- 90 days for "injunctive relief," which means that work on that pipeline could be halted, and would save the <i>Blued Trees</i> in Virginia.<br />
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Please find below, the complete text of my formal letter to FERC, which was submitted yesterday.<br />
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June 21, 2017<br />
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Dear Ms. Bose,<br />
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I am writing as the lead artist and producer of The Blued Trees Symphony that is endangered by the path of Mountain Valley Pipeline in Virginia. I attach my cv and a list of venues where you can read further about this work. It has been internationally recognized, with appearances in Korea, the UK and forthcoming, in China. Additionally, I invite you to visit my websites.<br />
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In this letter, I want to try to explain the significance, meaning and value of the work I have created and plead for its protection under the 1990 Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA), a division of copyright law.
This work is an installation of art that extends across large portions of the landscape of North America, in increments of 1/3 mile each.<br />
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Technically, under VARA, this work falls under the category of sculpture, as a new sub-category of copyrightable art: sonified biogeographic sculpture. That is sculpture that is integrally designed to be inseparable from the local biogeographic systems that include the trees, soil and watershed of it’s location. Broadly, this work falls under the genre of ecological art, which is deeply grounded in systems science and has become recognized as a new category of work by art historians and curators.<br />
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My PhD is in a crossover field between environmental sciences, technology and studio art. My dissertation developed a theoretical premise: that small sites can be located whose implications for large landscape sustainability and healing is crucial. That original premise is trigger point theory, and the basis for developing The Blued Trees Symphony.<br />
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Each increment of this sonified sculpture, termed a “measure,” has been created at the invitation of private landowners for corridors where natural gas pipelines would otherwise devastate habitat and the watersheds that habitat protects. It represents replacing a dysfunction, global warming producing system that threatens the planet, with a system that sustains all life on the plant. The latter system recognizes our interdependence with other species and intact biogeographies.<br />
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In each community, local individuals have gathered to paint these trees as a celebration of the natural beauty they cherish, to hear the music of the natural world and to assert their ownership of the land they love. In upper New York State, performers of this work created a manual to instruct people in the painting, to assure that the work would meet the highest aesthetic standards.<br />
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The measures follow a template of designated distributions of trees that aerially corresponds to the notes of a reiterated score. Each designated tree becomes a soloist, a tree-note in a synesthetic composition. The trees are designated in their spatial distribution with maps and ground truthing the distancing to accommodate the unique biogeographic elements of each measure. Each painted tree-note in situ is painted by an individual with the sigil of a vertical sine wave whose dimensions are determined by the width of the tree trunk, winding around the tree so that the effect corresponds to the dimensions of the soloist.<br />
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Miles of these measures have been painted nationally with an ultramarine blue non-toxic pure pigment mixed with buttermilk to grow moss on the trunks of each tree-note and then copyrighted for protection.
The development of this work, as often happens with art, expresses what many believe is a critical mandate for our times: how can art convey the yearnings of communities to feel connected to place, to celebrate the elements of their surroundings, and find hope to survive the extraordinary changes we observe in the Anthropocene era, this era when humans have transformed every living system on earth?<br />
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At a time when many people feel a desperate hopelessness and helplessness in the face of indifferent, monolithic corporate power, <i>The Blued Trees Symphony</i> has been a beacon of inspiration and connectivity in the communities where it has been performed and produced.<br />
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¥ <i>The Blued Trees Symphony</i> needs to be saved from destruction.<br />
¥ Saving <i>The Blued Trees Symphony</i> means saving the community's environmental rights and cultural aspirations.
¥ This art redefines human relationships to water and the trees that preserve water.<br />
¥ Beauty and health are more important than the corporate profits of multi-national fossil fuel corporations.<br />
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I respectfully submit this information you for your consideration and thank you for your attention.<br />
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Sincerely yours,<br />
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Aviva Rahmani, PhD<br />
Attached: artists biography and cv<br />
List of citations for <i>The Blued Trees Symphony
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Bridge</span></a> essay by Aviva Rahmani at: <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rbeP5t0_5W4SUi4_u6WcWiFtQJjG9TewrnZYkTxj8BG_u81S55P4Avl6Wikxs0TAGLYGH9GS5yKbmJHjWxoEc7926lu1ow2xY7rz7IDMlKdcWvV7ZcMkxIQ35LlptxEzObTchHNDNcMHvVuXUPyu3E5sYmhSspSJNP-dFswXEVJCn2_ytRgvjKe-TyBpYAte&c=sQAiIsXB2WLa9Ps47pKYm5txa5ARqqQNmexYBoZa4081ElEyLRbRDQ==&ch=daG_3JebpUaP4DWQyc7MaKjzI7ZKLbF2qI-kCe6KEr6lpP-tNKllZg==" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.darkmatterwomenwitnessing.com</span></a></span><!--EndFragment-->
AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-82985180225953494902017-02-02T13:28:00.001-08:002017-02-04T21:36:33.031-08:00Archives of Early WorkI will be adding to and editing this archive post from a previous website that was dedicated to my earlier work. Currently, it is a fairly indiscriminate data dump. That will change soon. Some of this material is also represented elsewhere on the present site because the folder has not yet been adequately edited. When this post is complete, it will help people understand some of what has brought me to my present convictions about what my trigger point theory as aesthetic activism might be, and how it has become <i>The Blued Trees Symphony.</i> I encourage my visitors to do a quick scroll thru and find early performance and painterly works that may be intriguing. Meanwhile, here is a spectacular shot of my installation just completed for KRICT, South Korea, about 20'x30'up till May 31, 2017 in their new gallery.
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<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz7npawMURMkT3Z6eE9HaUNVbTQ/preview" width="560" height="480"></iframe>AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-16150724876662094182016-11-27T13:59:00.003-08:002016-11-27T14:14:45.485-08:00The Blued Trees Symphony update<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">From April 2016 until late November 2016, I juggled dealing with surgery, chemotherapy and adjusting to long term medications, while moving <i>The Blued Trees Symphony</i> project forward. I blogged extensively on FB about my journey, making analogies between what I was experiencing and how the whole ecosystem was struggling to adjust to pollution, fragmentation and climate change, and was pleased to have a chance to write about the broader context I see for this work: </span></span><a href="http://www.humansandnature.org/the-spirit-of-change" target="_blank">http://www.humansandnature.<wbr></wbr>org/the-spirit-of-change</a>. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to Betsy Damon, Kate Cummings and Jeremy Ohmes<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>The Blued Trees Symphony</i> carried on. Under the direction of Robin Boucher, curator of Perspective Gallery at Virginia Tech, students and other volunteers painted almost 200 trees in Blacksburg, Virginia to resist natural gas pipelines there that would devastate local habitat and endanger the water system, and installed an indoor version of the material.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Now under the direction of Anita Stewart, </span><i style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The Blued Trees Symphony</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> is expanding along the Sabal Trail in Florida. Activists against the pipelines there have encountered serious opposition, allege extensive public corruption, and have seen inadequate investigative reporting.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">In recent weeks, my attention was consumed by the drama of the American Election, and the horrors of assaults on Native peoples defending water rights at Standing Rock. I am still very focused on the travesties of justice being witnessed there, where the sitting governor and pipeline corporations complain that the Water Protectors are standing in the way of their ill-gotten gains from ignoring treaties and destroying habitat, not to mention, threatening life. It has been heartening to see the attention build to this disgusting display of greed and tyranny. While recently attending the American Studies Association conference in Denver, I had the great privilege of meeting and speaking with some of the amazing women from </span></span><a href="http://www.ocetisakowincamp.org/" style="color: #326891; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;">Oceti Sakowin</a>. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found them very inspiring.<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The Coda to the raw material for the symphony was intended to be gathered Nov. 8, with the Election. </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">My intention was c</span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">ontain the experience, and it was performed at the Perspective Gallery, at Virginia Tech the following Nov. 11, 2016. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The genesis of the show was covered in the Roanoke Times: </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">But it has turned out that post-Election events continue to unravel, and now I don't know how the resolutions will be expressed. What I do know, is that the symphony continues to evolve, along with national resistance to the voracious greed of natural gas companies, and the parodies of justice and good governance that abet and defend that greed. I know that art, like the prayer of those at Standing Rock, has an ineffable power of its own, and I intend to continue to yield it.</span>AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-68072843492011352102016-10-16T18:48:00.000-07:002016-10-16T18:48:55.721-07:00How to make a codaThe Coda for <i>The Blued Trees Symphony</i> has been a work in progress since October 1, 2016. It follows the third movement of the Symphony, which was about the legal framework of the project, and began the first of the year, January 1, 2016. an excerpt from that movement was recently performed at White Box Gallery.<br />
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The entire third movement unfolded as I was also coming to terms with a cancer diagnosis and the treatment, which I am still enduring. I experienced that as an internalization of the same degradation we are inflicting on our entire ecosystem, and most recently, on our culture and the very basis of civilization, in the form of the populist challenge Donald Trump and his followers represent.<br />
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Any symphonic coda is intended to resolve previous themes in the sonata form. In the case of <i>Blued Trees</i>, those themes include the need for the ecosystem that supports human life, and the manifold threats to that ecosystem, in these times, in the form of ruthless fossil fuel expansions. This coda will end on the American Election Day, Nov. 8, 2016, for the next President of the United Sates. As Trump's polls have fallen, he has encouraged his followers to stage a violent coup d'etat should he lose the election. The United States has never before face such a crisis.<br />
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In the next months, the project will travel to many venues, including George Mason University, Virginia Tech, the ASA conference, KRICT in Korea, and the 2017 College Art Association conference. At each venue, I will be presenting segments of the whole work, while I will be becoming to assemble the arts into a whole work for future venues. I will also be, with the rest of the world, watching this political debacle play itself out, and monitoring myself personally for a recurrence of cancer and tolerance for the meds I've been prescribed.<br />
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There are three weeks left to complete this coda, with stem semblance of coherence. Will the tempo be temp, like a series of jagged events and emotions? Or largo, as we all step back in a search for sanity and equilibrium? Will it be a waltz, as though death and life are dancing together? I shall see.AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-76977873444576613852016-07-24T06:14:00.002-07:002016-07-25T03:50:55.417-07:00On Defiance, Uncertainty, and Empathy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Shortly after my last post on this site, I began chemotherapy for breast cancer. I am now halfway through that grueling treatment protocol. Meanwhile, <i>Blued Trees </i>was awarded a 2016 Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in the category of Architecture/ Environmental Structures/ Design, and a wonderful new article was published in the <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/how-land-art-lived-and-died-to-stop-a-fracked-gas-pipeline-and-how-it-lives-again-8795475">Village Voice</a> on <i>Blued Trees</i>, by Audrea Lim, which included this quote:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"Michael Royce, editorial director of the New York Foundation for the Arts, says there's a strong case to be made that </span><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blued Trees</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"expands the boundaries of traditional sculpture installations and symphonic orchestration by allowing for a fluid interplay of music and physical experience...with the viewer as participant or observer."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The article makes clear, that in Peekskill, New York, the site of the 2015 <a href="https://vimeo.com/135290635">overture launch </a>of <i>Blued Trees</i>, the Spectra Corporation defied </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "serif12" , serif;">both good public policy, and legal constraints, to place their corporate profits above safety for millions of people. On the other hand, the article also made clear, that an idea cannot be killed. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "serif12" , serif;">As I negotiate the private process of surviving the medical protocols for cancer treatment, in the midst of creating the Coda movement which will culminate <i>Blued Trees</i> on the American Election Day, November 8, 2016, I am reminded of all the ways humans must publically negotiate uncertainty in the Anthropocene era.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "serif12" , serif;">A central thesis in my dissertation, "Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism," circled around the implications for the second law of thermodynamics, of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon">James Clerk Maxwell</a>'s nineteenth century idea model, Maxwell's Demon, which posited that the work of sorting information, is a form of entropy. T</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "serif12" , serif;">he implications I saw for environmental triage, were that the correct information can effect surprising change, in even the most apparently hopeless situations. In an era of unprecedented uncertainty and risk, the need for clean habitat for life on earth supersedes the disruptive impacts of greed.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "serif12" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "serif12" , serif;">In the case of the <i>Blued Trees Symphony</i>, which evolved out of <i>Blued Trees</i>, the surprising information is in the resilience and power of beauty, and empathy, in the face of destruction and greed. Effecting that surprise is the task of art. It is the </span>mission of the <i>Blued Trees Symphony</i>. One tree, one note in our continental music. One person's struggle to defy despair, is all of our struggle to hold onto hope. That is how I would define empathy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We now have the legal framework to resist the proliferation of fossil fuel infrastructure poisoning the earth, thanks to the work of the legal team of Gale Elston, and Michael Gentlesk. It will be made available to the <i>Blued Trees </i>painters.</span>AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-80652993328936104092016-06-14T08:36:00.002-07:002016-06-14T08:36:23.778-07:00The Blued Trees Symphony, an anniversary eventWe are pleased to announce a new article about <i><a href="http://www.goethe.de/ins/cz/prj/fup/en15648790.htm">Blued Trees</a></i>, by Nancy Averret, as we anticipate more painting the weekend of June 18, 2016, the anniversary of the Blued Trees <a href="https://vimeo.com/135290635">overture</a>.<br />
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You are invited to keep track with Facebook, on <i>The Blued Trees Symphony </i>public page. Join us!<br />
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There is some amazing new press <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">on</span> the <i>Blued Trees Symphony</i>:</div>
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<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This afternoon, April 21, 2016, thanks to a generous grant from the Ethelwyn Doolittle Justice and Outreach Fund from the Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist. we will be meeting with our lawyers to create a legal framework that would umbrella all the <i>Blued Trees</i> sites!</span></span></span><br />
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AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-84049192250582122732016-02-28T19:05:00.001-08:002016-03-03T06:01:30.369-08:00Methane Is: shale gas methane emissions contribute substantial greenhouse gases, by Ruth Hardinger<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I invited my friend and fellow activist artist, Ruth Hardinger to guest blog on methane emissions. The dangers of these emissions is one of the most serious motivators for the <i>Blued Trees</i> <i>Symphony</i>. I am happy to post this on the day after the arrest of eleven <a aria-describedby="js_du" aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="js_dt" class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=1207024205981328" href="https://www.facebook.com/resistaim/" id="js_dv" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Resist AIM Pipeline</a><span style="background-color: white;"> defenders who chained themselves to an access gate to halt Hudson River drilling for the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM)- the Spectra Corporation Pipeline. The site of their arrests was not far from where Spectra destroyed the <i>Blued Trees</i> overture Thanksgiving weekend 2015. On the same day, Governor Cuomo sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to halt construction on the <a href="http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/new-york/2016/02/29/cuomo-halt-algonquin-pipeline-cites-indian-point/81103602/">AIM</a>, and New York State Senators Liz Krueger and Felix Ortiz demanded pension fund fossil fuel <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/getting-new-york-divest-fossil-fuels/">divestment</a>s from Albany. It is a companion piece to the previous post, "After the Ph.D.," on environmental research work from artists. - Aviva Rahmani</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Activists blocking Spectra work before arrests. Screenshot from FB of Photo by Erik R. McGregor</td></tr>
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<b>“<span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: "georgia bold";">The short-lived climate
pollutants [like methane] that we emit from human activities are basically
controlling how fast the warming occurs, she said. This is because they are
very powerful at absorbing radiation."<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4059390280020420479#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="FootnoteReference1"><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><span class="FootnoteReference1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">Methane is CH4. It is a powerful greenhouse gas. It degrades over 8 to 12 years in the atmosphere, as it converts into carbon
dioxide (CO2). There are three different
sources of methane gas including thermogenic (from deep geology), anthropogenic
(from human activities) or biogenic
(from living organisms ) methane<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4059390280020420479#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="FootnoteReference1"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="FootnoteReference1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>. “Natural” gas is composed of 85 to 99%
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">The global warming
potential of CH4 has been upgraded by IPCC to at least 86 times stronger than
CO2 during a 20 year time frame of this gas, and 105 times stronger over a 10
year time frame. Methane, grouped with
other near-term climate forcers such as black carbon, hydrofluorocarbon and
aerosols, is the most likely greenhouse gas escalating the planetary heat now,
because there is so much of it being released.
There have been few measurements of gas leakage from gas wells and
pipelines. The measurements that have
been made have found substantial concentrations of methane in the
atmosphere. Further, the EPA comparison
of methane to CO2 on the 100 year time frame claims methane is 25 times
stronger than CO2, hiding the real impact of CH4’s near-term presence. Simply, the 100 year time frame does not
acknowledge methane’s impact. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">The current atmospheric
concentrations of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide have levels unprecedented in
the last 800,000 years.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4059390280020420479#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="FootnoteReference1"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="FootnoteReference1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> There is great concern about the absence of
data collected of actual measurements of emissions. Fugitive methane emissions have been
measured in only a few cities: San Francisco CA, Manhattan, NY<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4059390280020420479#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="FootnoteReference1"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="FootnoteReference1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>,
Washington DC, Boston MA, and several small towns. The urgency to address
climate change should be based on the actual impacts of this potent GHG. Bryce Payne, PHD and two other scientists
wrote to the White House and State Department that the GWP (global warming
potential) of methane needs be positioned even shorter than 20 years, it should
be a 10 year time frame. This will allow
us to understand what we are facing and to act appropriately to reduce the
changing of our planet’s climate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span style="font-family: "cambria";">Methane leakage impacts arise from man-made sources that include natural gas pipeline leakage, leakage and venting of upgrading pipelines, abandoned old wells, new wells, gas or oil storage fields (these are highly pressurized for example near Porter Ranch), migration underground that rises to the surface, and emissions from waste water disposal and earthquakes, venting methane in oil well fields, and more. This is happening in the US and in other countries. Evidence of leakage can be seen in the images attached here.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4059390280020420479#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="FootnoteReference1"><span class="FootnoteReference1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[5]</span></span></span></a> Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS) has conducted methane emissions measurements in rural areas where methane escaped and has travelled beyond the target production zone underground, connected existing faults and fractures allowing gas to migrate to aquifers and the surface.</span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"> </span></span></div>
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Figure 5. <span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Image created by Bob Ackley, and Bryce Payne, Ph.D GasSafetyUSA </span><br />
The 3-4 June 2013 Towenda-Wyalusing Ambient Air Methane Survey.</div>
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Relative methane levels indicated in red (highest peak in the image = 3.9ppm)</div>
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Blue and orange markers indicate the Paradise Road and Sugar Run methane migration</div>
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impact areas (4-mile) designated in 16 May 2011 Pa DEP Consent Order.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Wyalusing
area showing elevated methane (geological leakage) over a wide area in
Susquehanna County, PA along the Susquehanna River This is data obtained
with a Picarro CRDS machine which produces very accurate measurements of
methane to 1/2 ppm. Chesapeake, the gas driller in the area, was fined
$900,000.by Pennsylvania DEP for causing gas migration. The area picture is
detailed in the May 16 PA DEP Consent Order (post damage arrangement) which has
the maps that are made by the yellow and blue points in the image. At least one
lawsuit was settled there for $1.6 million and there are many more filed.</span><span style="font-family: "cambria";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">Results of methane survey
of parts of Manhattan and rural areas to the East on 27-30 November and
December 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">DCS reported on fugitive
emissions of Manhattan in 2012 and in New York City Gas Safety Inc. in 2015
determined that at least 6.6% of the total delivered gas is leaking although
likely much more. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4059390280020420479#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="FootnoteReference1"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="FootnoteReference1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><span class="FootnoteReference1"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">Natural gas brings
substantial and devastating health impacts.
DCS has participated in a compendium of health impacts from fracking.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4059390280020420479#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="FootnoteReference1"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="FootnoteReference1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Methane is an indicator gas for the mixture that is natural gas. The mixture includes radon, endocrine
disruptors, benzene toluene VETX , and more. Methane creates asthma from ozone
and burning the gas emits ultrafine particulate matter, under 2.5 microns–these
are like breathing someone else’s tobacco, an impact that it is overlooked.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4059390280020420479#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="FootnoteReference1"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="FootnoteReference1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Global health agencies have encouraged
awareness of air pollution-related diseases that causes over 6 million deaths
every year. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4059390280020420479#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="FootnoteReference1"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="FootnoteReference1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">"It is essential that all
UNFCCC (Cop 21) Parties and the global citizenry be as clearly informed as
possible with respect to potential climate change and what is being done to
mitigate anthropogenic forcing of the climate compared to what is actually
necessary if disruptive climate change is to be minimized. If climate change
mitigation efforts are to be effective, the short-term impacts of potent,
short-lived greenhouse gases, especially methane, must be considered. In the
near term, methane emissions due to human activity have a stronger global
warming impact than the much larger emissions of carbon dioxide. Current
greenhouse gas inventory and reporting rules of the UNFCCC are causing the
climate impacts of greenhouse gases such as methane to be effectively ignored."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">Ruth Hardinger is an
artist and a Board and Steering Committee member with Damascus Citizens for
Sustainability (DCS) since 2009. DCS is a
501-C3 organization that stands for clean water, air and land as basic human
rights. She initiated the fugitive
emissions measurements and studies in Manhattan for DCS with Rebecca Smith, and Barbara Arrindell (DCS Director). In recent art installation exhibitions,
Hardinger has used abstraction from the methane measurement work for The
Basement Rocks and The Basement Rocks – LOUDER.
The materials and sensitivity of constructions encourage awareness of
the underground. These exhibitions are
accompanied with “Grounding” a sound of the underground, by rock musician Andy
Chase, and letters for the visitors to take that convey her conversations with
scientist, Bryce Payne, PhD and professor Ron Bishop, PhD regarding damage that
is happening to the underground, the place of the most biomass in our
planet. </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Last weekend, I was in Zurich for a reunion of sorts, with the cohorts who had gained Ph.D's from the Zurich Node of the Planetary Collegium, initiated by Roy Ascott at Plymouth University, UK. The occasion was the presentation of <a href="http://www.z-node.net/cms/index.html">Models of Diversity</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich">ETH</a>, and the Zurich University of the Arts, where we had convened under the supervision of Dr. Angelika Scott, my first supervisor, and Dr. Jill Scott, my second supervisor, who started that program in 2005. It was the end of a unique integration of environmental sciences, technology and studio art.<br />
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The work of mine that was shown for the exhibition was from a 2007 group show, "Called to Action," curated by Lillian Ball. The view and details below, are from an installation visualization of trigger point theory, which became my dissertation topic (Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism). That theory inspired the www.gulftogulf.org website, and led to <i>Blued Trees</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Trigger Point/ Tipping Points," work in installation in "Models of Diversity", 2016<br />
This was the first full installation of the complete work, Painting and drawing on paper with photography300 cm x 200 cm<br />
This work compared several sites in the Gulf of Maine to a site in Riverhead, NY, the location of the gallery, and the changes over ten years of time to the<i> Ghost Nets</i> site.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Installation detail 1 These details just compare two sections of the Ghost Nets site, the wetlands is the process of restoration, and the uplands riparian zone in 1997, and then ten years later, with the schematic analysis of the project sphere of affect from the nucleation process of the trigger points.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail 2 of "Trigger Points/ Tipping Points" installation. This is a detail shot of how one coastal city could effect an impact on a wider ecosystem on land and for marine life. <br />
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As part pf the conference that was part of the event, "Grounded Visions," I presented a PPT, that tracked how my theoretical work, which began before doing the Ph.D, culminated in <i>Blued Trees</i>, after completing my research.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slide from conference presentation of <i>Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism</i>, to <i>Blued Trees</i> presented at ETH <br />
Feb. 19, 2016 for the "Models of Diversity," conference. In this slide, I explained the role of law in effecting trigger point theory to stop fossil fuel proliferation, and made the relationship between the rules of law, the incidence of chemical discharge in Newtown Creek, and corollaries to musical systems in<i> Blued Trees</i>.</td></tr>
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I am now into the third movement of <i>Blued Trees</i>. It will continue until the summer solstice anniversary of the launch of the overture. In considering the copyright aspect of the project, I am focusing now on the the implications of the term, <i>droit morale</i>, which literally means, moral rights. Originating in the French Revolution, the term means the spiritual value of the artwork has inalienable rights. That concept is the basis for all copyright law. The difference between approaching<br />
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Trigger Point Theory before and after the Ph.D work, is that I can now frame my questions on multiple layers, with formal parameters that are far more sophisticated, leading towards more complex questions. The original idea, was that there are small geographical points, physically located, whose restoration might effect a larger systemic healing to degraded ecosystems.<br />
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I think the same skills that might have accomplished that physical identification of trigger points, has become a model to identify more complex points of intervention, such as the legal points in <i>Blued Trees.</i> I can now ask, "what has happened to the moral-spiritual value of artmaking?" and it's corollary, "what relationship might there be, in the Anthropocene era, between making art, and the moral basis of justice?" Could <i>droit morale</i> be a key to that answer?AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-9077020458176693342016-02-10T18:56:00.001-08:002016-02-10T19:07:29.999-08:00Pushing waves, making wavesThe goal of <i>Blued Trees</i> has been to make waves in the legal system, by painting sine waves on the trees in forests, making music out of our relationships with those trees, making each site a trigger point for possible change.<br />
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I called this blog "Pushing Rocks," because that's what it often feels like to practice ecological art in the Anthropocene. Pushing waves, of course, is impossible. You either go with the flow of the waters or you resist them. I believe there may be ways to go with a flow.<br />
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What we want is sustainable change. Change that moves towards a resilient future. That may be far easier said than done. In this webcast with my colleagues, Jim White of UBS, and Gene Turner of LSU, we discuss how we might adjust to a very imminent future, in which the principles behind <i>Blued Trees</i> may have a role. As Jim White references in this webcast, perhaps it is not impossible to find a way to be part of the waves. What we want is to make waves that could erode hopelessness in the face of despair. We may need to first wade through a good deal of that despair.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">February 20, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland, a <i>Blued Trees</i> progress report will be delivered during the "Resilience" panel for the <em>Models of Diversity </em>conference and exhibition </span><a alt="http://www.z-node.net/cms/index.html" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rC1StHc3D7_U04nWPZFpETvp5ZVHufshgb-XnkgUonDjzsrlpvOJxGdeNaa2F9kCH3YJFaJW1K_A-rHRjbJ4y1npZUOIZ9T6my1ELtdGQaFrY_v8MTvl-01EQwe8SiKMgNi_nfzxR89Nt-XgDCv56qAmK5oJnNh_NCGR3jBEYsWYclFP62yCshA1S5D2TjM8&c=6H9As-6LAQ3CAANYQxofp4IUo4udhak2TstEWKskJkiD_HFNln82tw==&ch=5rgg4Z1l91kNHXxs84HchclBbIuGz85rIYnZAWa15MOTGNCglLo4dQ==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">http://www.z-node.net/cms/index.html</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> at the Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Federal copyright registration of <i>Blued Trees</i> sites continues. Legal research is currently being assembled to consider charging Spectra Energy with copyright violation over their destruction of the <i>Blued Trees</i> overture as a fixed work of ecological art. <i>Blued Trees</i> continues to be installed in the United States, in pathways of proposed natural gas pipeline expansions <a alt="http://www.gulftogulf.org/map" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rC1StHc3D7_U04nWPZFpETvp5ZVHufshgb-XnkgUonDjzsrlpvOJxGdeNaa2F9kCa9iASGIL-aYssBtCsBbGltdTguAUltbmNRAqsWblVrTA9ZSWrHrmTLEMzD6OHaK97RPaSQnkN_q9HTwUDHrbeDdOY_GOFWo5O1OW0KPggYz9CWx5DIUaQw==&c=6H9As-6LAQ3CAANYQxofp4IUo4udhak2TstEWKskJkiD_HFNln82tw==&ch=5rgg4Z1l91kNHXxs84HchclBbIuGz85rIYnZAWa15MOTGNCglLo4dQ==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">http://www.gulftogulf.org/map</a>, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and internationally, for the </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">Blued Trees</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Greek Chorus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The <i>Blued Trees</i> symphony has entered the third movement. It continues to seek novel legal recourse to protect the symphony and will track, respond and transpose legal developments around "public good" and eminent domain takings that support toxic fossil fuel industries. The third movement will segue to the coda of <i>Blued Trees</i> on the American Presidential Election Day, November 2016. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>Blued Trees</i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> stands in solidarity with conscientious objectors, such as the "Montrose 9" who were arrested for protecting the same site where the <i>Blued Trees</i> overture was destroyed, November 9<sup>th</sup>, 2015. They will return to court February 3, 2016, to exercise the climate necessity defense for civil disobedience: </span><span style="color: #386eff; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: underline;"><a alt="http://tinyurl.com/necessitydefense" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rC1StHc3D7_U04nWPZFpETvp5ZVHufshgb-XnkgUonDjzsrlpvOJxGdeNaa2F9kCgyFC6zfmCiQ6iTPjv3ZwqzNs-9cZZv2FuGIuYKlsR2oYvggtm_0TbRId7H5a2-8fvbkzlY3qa69uO2AGKN56abJkUfoCii6Z5QuaggC9HNzg5WyA7V1nPaolD8add3o6&c=6H9As-6LAQ3CAANYQxofp4IUo4udhak2TstEWKskJkiD_HFNln82tw==&ch=5rgg4Z1l91kNHXxs84HchclBbIuGz85rIYnZAWa15MOTGNCglLo4dQ==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/necessitydefense</a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Donate to the <i>Blued Trees</i> project: </span><a alt="https://www.nyfa.org/ArtistDirectory/ShowProject/1446ef3a-0a9d-4449-96be-74023eb9c376" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rC1StHc3D7_U04nWPZFpETvp5ZVHufshgb-XnkgUonDjzsrlpvOJxINSgAt4yT2nA50GxzLnoW3KlFNqcwERaY_259YJn4ETIX-dM2RpluSxcbVnE1HQYOQ6ZnsyxnXghsS9A4bB719OZ-TpJ6cqz9QrUATaIu4nexL78f3iRVIapwr2PeKn7uFTvDW1SnERfPNAWFDlcFtmDUpNDF0uT9Hku2XQ3NiyMzZynPoB_-5p_tmBxzLF97HhzqjahUmr&c=6H9As-6LAQ3CAANYQxofp4IUo4udhak2TstEWKskJkiD_HFNln82tw==&ch=5rgg4Z1l91kNHXxs84HchclBbIuGz85rIYnZAWa15MOTGNCglLo4dQ==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">https://www.nyfa.org/ArtistDirectory/ShowProject/1446ef3a-0a9d-4449-96be-74023eb9c376</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Watch the <i>Blued Trees</i> overture: </span><span style="color: #386eff; font-size: 14pt;"><a alt="https://vimeo.com/135290635" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rC1StHc3D7_U04nWPZFpETvp5ZVHufshgb-XnkgUonDjzsrlpvOJxNIMtk6JURbXuLsQnIazFRNR7khSUKGNNimdB9a0YKq9t1Q38T2MMWaqx2ZOgC2WwSXUEhAJ4KgVAj3nQtSk1jO2h_hCrrOfpFTHWfOaLRaxnTvv2j5lXF_gJP5RLmZLbw==&c=6H9As-6LAQ3CAANYQxofp4IUo4udhak2TstEWKskJkiD_HFNln82tw==&ch=5rgg4Z1l91kNHXxs84HchclBbIuGz85rIYnZAWa15MOTGNCglLo4dQ==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/135290635</a></span></div>
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I have been advised that the legal process is both too expensive and takes too long for an artist to engage in to resist the proliferation of natural gas infrastructure at the expense of citizens. Some activists, such as the Montrose 9 + 2, have taken the route of risking (and being) arrested to prevail under the "necessity defense," that the necessity of opposing a disaster prevails over other considerations. Instead, I was advised to, and decided to find a policymaker who could spearhead the necessary changes. So I drafted the following letter for a policy maker in NYS:</div>
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I am writing as a citizen concerned with pubic good, and aware of your record of concern for the people of this state, with the hopes that we might meet to discuss your position on natural gas. I am a resident of NYC, and an ecological artist, with a transdisciplinary PhD in environmental sciences from the University of Plymouth, UK, and an Affiliate at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I was approached a year ago, by activists opposing the Algonquin natural gas pipeline (AIM), now being installed in Peekskill, NY close to the Indian Point nuclear facility. Since then, I have informed myself about the risks that concerned them. In June 2015, I launched a public art project, “Blued Trees,” at the invitation of private landowners resisting eminent domain condemnation of their lands. That work has now been installed within the corridors of miles of proposed natural gas infrastructure, throughout the United States, copyrighted, and in the case of the Algonquin, a cease and desist was issued, and subsequently ignored by Spectra Corporation. The grounds of this legal-art work, are that the public good is not being served, as we face a catastrophe of climate change, alarming data on fugitive methane emissions, the probability of a fracked gas explosion close to a nuclear facility thirty miles from NYC, and impacts on watersheds and the small farming communities of upper New York State. I would be very appreciative if we might meet to discuss the data about this situation.</div>
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Dr. Aviva Rahmani </div>
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The <i>Blued Trees</i>
Symphony overture, first and second movement of five movements premieres 6:30 PM at ISCP, 1040 Metropolitan Ave. Brooklyn, NY for <i>Aqueous Earth</i> December 15, 2015.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am pleased and honored to present the first three
movements of the <i>Blued Trees</i>
symphony. Many thanks to the entire staff of ISCP and the NEA, who have hosted
this residency period for me to focus on producing the second movement of the
symphony. Particular thanks to studio assistant Su Jung Kim and technical
support from Drew Lichtenstein.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Blued Trees</i> is a
16-month long symphony at multiple sites internationally. The work includes a
series of site specific installations, as copyrighted sculptures in
collaboration with trees, at over twenty sites internationally. The goal of
this work is to initiate an international discussion about the judicial meaning
of public good and earth rights, and create the legal instruments for a
resilient future, including clean water,
from the impetus of art. The second movement compares what has been done to
Newtown Creek, to what is about to happen to the State of New York and the
remainder of the earth, as fossil fuel infrastructure advances unimpeded.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Part I:</b> overture film created with Denise Petrizzo from the
June 21, 2015 launch.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Audio includes work from Maile Colbert with score created by
Aviva Rahmani, and singing by Coloratura Debra Vanderlinde and Aviva Rahmani.
The site of the launch was Peekskill New York, at the invitation of the
Reynolds Hills Property Association, where expanded natural gas pipelines would
pass within 105’ of the nuclear plant infrastructure for the Indian Point
facility, 30 miles from New York City. The work at the site had copyright
registration to protect the art and the habitat from destruction. September 30,
2015, a cease and desist notification was delivered to the Spectra Corporation.
In defiance of that cease and desist notification to the Spectra Corporation,
that site was destroyed late November 2015.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Part II: </b>first movement, based on trees painted at twenty corridor
sites opposing natural gas infrastructure in 1/3 mile measures of the symphony.
Each site had been painted at the invitation of residents facing land
condemnation under eminent domain law, in the name of public good. Film of
painting at three sites in Oneida County, New York, by Heriberto Rodriguez.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Part III:</b> second movement, comparing the history and status
of the Newtown Creek superfund site and the extent of plans for natural
infrastructure in New York State.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gusti Bogok, activist and soprano<o:p></o:p></div>
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Daniel McHenry, actor<o:p></o:p></div>
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Aviva Rahmani, artist and soprano<o:p></o:p></div>
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Al Smith, bass<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lynne Taylor, actor<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dean Temple, actor<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-75016170877888946452015-11-25T05:19:00.001-08:002015-11-25T09:34:48.616-08:00Preparing for Ruthlessness in "Blued Trees"<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will add to this post over the next few days. It is November 25, the day before Thanksgiving, and I have much to be grateful for in the progress of<i> Blued Trees</i>, starting with how many people have "gotten it," that art and law can contest the mindless proliferation of toxic fossil fuel and natural gas infrastructures. Yesterday, I was enormously heartened when the <i>Blued Trees </i>crowdfunding site received a donation of $100., a day after I had visited the site of the overture, in Peekskill, New York, where I witnessed how Algonquin-Spectra had wreaked utter, devastating </span></span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;">destruction. They ignored the danger of creating a high velocity (42") pipeline, cheek by jowl with the local nuclear plant, 30 miles from NYC. They ignored thousands of local citizens petitioning for protection from the dangers. They dismissed the cease and desist notification I had filed.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a detail of the overture that was destroyed by Algonquin- Spectra, shot my Erik McGregor days before.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I now know far more about <i>Blued Trees</i> than when I began. I know, for example, that the ruthlessness that fossil fuel companies have employed in South America, has reached North America, They act with impunity because many officials are on their team, not the team of local citizens or the welfare of the planet. It took me a while to grasp how utterly indifferent they are to consequences, such as climate change, wrapped in oodles of money as they are. I will add to this blog post this weekend, with urls for new articles, pictures and information about a manual we are completing for painters. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was unprepared </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for ruthlessness." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I didn't have the war chest, the right lawyers, or the emotional fortitude to accept the intense grief and rage when that some battles are lost so we can win the war. I am, however, learning, and intend to pass along all I learn. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: '"helvetica"', '"arial"', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We now have a manual designed by Coni Porter, and other participants, for all new participants.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is the new film from Erik McGregor about resistance that includes a collage of images from <i>Blued Trees</i>: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTDlGjWVeg8&feature=youtu.be</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is the url to donate to developing the legal theory to umbrella every </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blued Trees</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> site internationally:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/blued-trees-defense-2/x/12001983#/</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-9199682899213036892015-11-17T17:26:00.001-08:002015-11-17T17:26:33.767-08:00Painting like my life depends upon it, by Robin Boucher with Suzi Gablik<div class="page" title="Page 1">
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">I am painting trees as if my life depends on it. I often feel like the world is so full of blind cowards these
days, people who are unwilling to connect with their emotions and properly react. Denial is a survival
mechanism, however, when it comes to denying the facts surrounding continued use of fossil fuels,
there is no survival associated with it.
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">I started painting trees back in late August when Carolyn Deck, an artist from Floyd County, Virginia sent
</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">information to a group I’m in touch with </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">about Aviva Rahmani</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">s community based, eco-art project titled
</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri,Italic'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Blued Trees</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">. Rahmani</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">s straightforward and doable eco-art project, designed to stop a pipeline in New
York state, was inspiring and more approachable than a resistance art project I had planned to launch on
my own. As the Mountain Valley Pipeline proposal gathered steam in our region, and the powers that
be at EQT/Next Era, the company overseeing the development of the MVP project, </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">continued to “mess
with our heads” by proposing a fourth “better” alternative through our community, I realized that it was
</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">now or never that I needed to do something.
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Many people would probably call me a “tree</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">hugger.” But really I’m more than a tree hugger. </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Looking
back two generations, half of my family were farmers, and another quarter lived off the rocky land of
southern Italy. All I say and do revolves around how I can be a better steward of the land through my
daily choices</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">...</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">a direct evolution from the deep genetic connection my ancestors had to place.
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">As the product of a mid-twentieth century upwardly mobile family, moving from city to city was a
common occurrence. By the time I was 10 I had moved 9 times and was happy when we finally landed
in my </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">grandparents’ </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">hometown along a lovely slice of land on </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Sarah’s Creek, a tributary of the York
</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">River, which flows into the Chesapeake Bay. Living there for multiple years afforded me the privilege of
watching small trees grow</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">. One tree I jumped over every day after school, until one day, I couldn’t
</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">anymore because it had grown too tall. There were oaks all around our home, and the sound of acorns
falling on the roof in the fall meant that it was a good year for squirrels. I began to connect to place.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">When I was in my teens the riparian landscapes along Sarah’s Creek were developed with
</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">condominiums, docks, and the subsequent watercraft that followed this type of building. Our sweet
little estuaries were gone. Lost were the trees and secret places my sister and I would row to in our
wooden boat, hand built by my grandfather. After that happened, I realized my </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">place</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">” </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">had thus
changed beyond recognition and I needed to seek connection elsewhere.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Backpacking throughout the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Valley helped me to find the center of my
world again. It was on these trips as a young woman that I realized that all I really needed was in the
forest. Eventually I landed in the Alleghany Mountains of Virginia on a heavily wooded little hill at the
base of Brush Mountain. Chinkapin Hill was so named because in the 19</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">50’s and 1960’s people
</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">throughout the community came here to pick the Alleghany chinkapin, a close relative to the American
chestnut, but less susceptible to blight. It is here I built my home by hand, created a permaculture
landscape, grew organic vegetables, raised my babies, taught scores of children about connecting with
the environment through art, painted the landscape, and lived among a mixed hardwood forest that has
grown older along with me.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">The Mountain Valley Pipeline is not the </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">first time I’ve encountered proposed destruction within our
</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">region. In the 19</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">90’s I helped to spearhead resistance against an interstate, and a 765 </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">kV powerline.
The two years of intense work on these projects helped me cut my teeth as a community activist. What
I learned was that there was always going to be sacrifice, and that no one initially won when you were </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">trying to shift paradigms. But I also know in hindsight, that if you can live the life you want to support
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">then the shift does happen...but it oft</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">en takes decades.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">But we don’t have decades anymore.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Suzi Gablik wrote about what artists can do, what we MUST do to aid in paradigm shifts within our
community, ecology, and morality in her seminal book The </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri,Italic'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Reenchantment of Art </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">(Thames and Hudson,
1992). According to Suzi,
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Art moved by empathic attunement, not tied to an art-historical logic but orienting us to the
cycles of life, helps us to recognize that we are part of an interconnected web that ultimately we
cannot dominate. Such art begins to offer a completely different way of looking at the world</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">”
</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">(p. 88).
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">I was studying for my M.F.A. in visual art when I first heard Suzi speak, and it was her words and her
writing which inspired me to shift focus from my studio work to community work. And it was during a
regional fight against an interstate highway project that I met Suzi and had the privilege of continuing
the dialogue she began in her book. And even more fortuitous, Suzi moved to our community and we
have been friends for two decades. Through this friendship I have had the chance to build on her
writings, with our conversations.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">During our last meeting she asked me how things were going with the pipeline resistance. I told her
about all of the lies we have been fed from EQT/NextEra, and how helpless so many feel in being able to
enact any change.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">When I asked her about her thoughts on the pipeline project and what it meant for our community she
became </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">grave. “Even though we’</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ve past the tipping point, </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">saving what’s </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">left of the Earth remains our
utmost responsibility and the task of our conscience. Faced with the impossible, our conscience
requires that we continue to work at it the best we can. </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">It’s like reparations after war, we owe this to
the world that we have so devastated and harmed.”
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Building a pipeline that transports fracked fossil fuels is both unsustainable and ultimately devastating. It
perpetuates a mythology that we can have everything we want whenever we want it. That the price the
earth pays, what we pay</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">... is worth it...so we can have everything and more.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">We need to redefine </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">everything</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">” </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">as a society. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Building a 42 inch natural gas pipeline through steep mountainous terrains, wilderness areas, national
forests, historical communities, groundwater recharge regions, cave conservancies, neighborhoods,
contiguous unbroken forest lands, agricultural areas, scenic rivers, and national byways, is happening
throughout Virginia and throughout the world. It</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">s not just our commonwealth that will lose if these
pipelines are built, but the world.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Remember, all backyards are connected.
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">S</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">o I am painting trees because my family’s life depends on th</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">e cool, clean, fresh water which we get
from our well. I am painting trees because the people who have chosen to live in this community, enjoy
breathing clean air and seeing the Milky Way on clear nights. I am painting trees to remind the world
that solar power is a transitional power source that should be heavily focused on in this new world we
are entering. I am painting trees for all of the people who have fracking wells in their communities.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">I am painting trees because it is an act of beauty in the face of defiance. </span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">A reminder that we don’t have
</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">to trash our landscape in order to live well.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">I am painting trees because doing so creates a visual connection to the places we will lose should a
bulldozer come over our ridges and plough through our valleys.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Painting trees is meditative and permits deep connection to place. Painting trees allows me to breath in
the face of grief, and ultimately to visualize the change that must happen.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">And as my good friend Lauren said, “painting trees is like painting prote</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">ctive prayers in our forests.” </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">And
right now, our forests, our land, our world certainly could use a good prayer. Surely there is no harm in
using prayers when faced with a seemingly an insurmountable task.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Robin Scully Boucher, Chinkapin Hill, Blacksburg, Virginia </span><br />
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AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-88906020691185379752015-11-13T00:32:00.000-08:002015-11-14T04:41:30.541-08:00Showing of the Second Movement of Blued Trees Opens Tonight<div style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
There will be a viewing of the second movement work-in-progress of the <i>Blued Trees </i>symphony. I have composed a statement for <a href="http://www.iscp-nyc.org/">ISCP</a> Open Studio event beginning tonight at 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn, and continuing tomorrow from 1:-8: PM:</div>
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"Blued Trees," is a five part operatic symphonic installation that began June 21, 2015 with an overture in Peekskill, New York and will conclude with a coda during the American presidential Election in 2016. </div>
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The overture was accompanied by an international Greek Chorus at twenty additional sites. </div>
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Peekskill was chosen because it is the site of a proposed natural gas pipeline expansion within 105’ of a failing nuclear facility, 30 miles from New York City.</div>
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The first movement is taking places in six states in America so far, as a series of 1/3 mile “measures,” of a score that is simultaneously spatial and acoustic. <span style="color: #141823;">The score corresponds to a pattern that prevents the movement of heavy</span><span style="color: #141823;"> </span><span style="color: #373e4d; white-space: pre-wrap;">machinery through corridors for proposed natural gas pipelines. Each note of the score is indicated as a vertical sine wave with a non-toxic slurry of ultramarine blue and buttermilk to grow moss. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="s6oq-0-0"> The site of each of the installations for the overture and first movement are in various stages of copyright filing, registration and notices of cease and desist against violations of the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA). The goal is to litigate this premise first in the United States Supreme Court, and then at the United Nations, as an Earth Rights issue. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fmdp9-0-0"> The immediate goal in the Untied States is to contest the abuse of eminent domain law by fossil fuel corporations, with the sword of copyright law. Success will depend on engaging the mainstream in a conversation about what is public good, and the process of fundraising to support the litigation process at each site.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6bmac-0-0"> The second movement, developing at ISCP, compares the Newtown Creek superfund site to what will happen to the entire state of New York, should proposed natural gas infrastructure continue to proliferate. It will culminate with a performance of the first three movements December 15, 2015. The music of the symphony is being developed as both a matter of local ambient sound and as classical repertoire with bel canto and other conventional instrumentation. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4q24n-0-0"> The variations in the movements are based on an iterative score created for the overture. The painted trees are the soloists for this work, and due to the corruption of the legal process, should we fail, will also become martyrs to the cause of freedom. The process for all concerned, especially the trees, is exhausting.</span></div>
AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-28552566995866508342015-11-01T04:42:00.001-08:002015-11-01T04:55:19.555-08:00"Blued Trees" symphony continues to unfold nationally!<div style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
Another 1/3 mile measure of "Blued Trees" is being painted today in Nassau County, New York. This is the sixth location nationally to install "Blued Trees" as a full 1/3 mile measure in the path of proposed natural gas pipeline expansions. </div>
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I sent the painters some last minute comments and instructions:</div>
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We are experimenting with some radical ideas with what activism and art can be and how it might work. you are on the cutting edge.<br />
Everyone participating is a courageous hero fighting the Goliaths<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> of our times with your own cleverness.<br />Success will be in how the idea spreads: that art has power, that individuals working collectively can effect change.<br />That setbacks can spur us to even greater heroism.<br />Paint like your life depends upon it, because it does.<br />Make great art.<br />Get the best possible documentation.</span></div>
AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-86893547019808297572015-10-17T18:28:00.000-07:002015-10-17T18:42:40.951-07:00The first and second movement of the "Blued Trees" symphonyThe <i>Blued Trees</i> symphony was conceived as a synesthetic relationship to space, in which sound and space are one. It is taking place over about 16 months, in multiple international locations. There are going to be five movements. The overture was completed June 21, 2015, and has been copyrighted.<br />
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The first movement is being completed now and will be copyrighted with a number of additional sites, encompassing about 6 miles around the country. The first movement began October 4, 2015, and as in any classical symphonic structure, it recapitulates themes introduced in the overture. In this case the themes include law, justice, ambient habitat sound, the human voice, habitat degradation, melodic forms and relationships to risk and public good. The second movement began October 6, 2015 overlapping the first movement, and introduces the dramatic refrain of degradation by focusing on the Newtown Creek, New York superfund site,<br />
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The copyright filing for the overture has been registered with the United States copyright office.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The copy of the registration of copyright for the overture, the first of five movements of the symphony. The overture was composed as a film in addition to the sculptural installation: <span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">https://vimeo.com/135290635</span></td></tr>
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Since the installation was designed for habitat corridors where natural gas pipelines have been proposed for expansion, a cease and desist notification has been sent to the Algonquin corporation, owned by Spectra, who are planning to excavate for that expansion 105' from the Indian point nuclear facility, 30 miles from NYC. The cease and desist notification is intended to protect the artwork from destruction.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yCfTUj2uZYs/ViLrAkSFV5I/AAAAAAAABVg/5qo5yzfgqyc/s1600/return%2Breceipt%2Breturn%2Bslip%2B10-14-15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="169" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yCfTUj2uZYs/ViLrAkSFV5I/AAAAAAAABVg/5qo5yzfgqyc/s320/return%2Breceipt%2Breturn%2Bslip%2B10-14-15.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Signed evidence of receipt of the cease and desist notification in Texas, home of the Algonquin-Spectra corporations.<br />
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Each measure of the symphony is one third mile. Several measures are being painted in Virginia.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of measures being painted by Robin Boucher and others at Brush Mountain, Virginia<br />
This team of painters filmed their work: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/o8twbej" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">http://tinyurl.com/o8twbej</a><br />
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October 4, 2015 measures were commenced at an animal sanctuary and on two farms in Oneida County.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photograph by Toshia Hance of <i>Blued Trees </i>work in Oneida County, where pipelines are claiming 10 mile swathes of land corridors through prime farmland and watersheds for New York State</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Work in progress for <i>Blued Trees </i>at an animal sanctuary. Photograph by Toshia Hance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Work in progress for <i>Blued Trees</i>, identifying where new pipeline expansions could destroy prime farmland. Photograph by Aviva Rahmani.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planning session at the threatened animal sanctuary to expand the scope of the symphony to additional measures. Photograph by Aviva Rahmani</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grandfather tree where the farm owners' husband's ashes are buried, which would be destroyed should the pipelines be allowed to proceed told destroy the land. Photograph by Aviva Rahmani.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of painted tree from <i>Blued Trees</i> first movement of the symphony. Photograph by Aviva Rahmani.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">End of a day of painting measures of the first movement of the <i>Blued Trees</i> symphony. Photograph by Aviva Rahmani</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melodic transposition from trees to notes of a variation for the first movement of the <i>Blued Trees</i> symphony, notated with the help of Debra Vanderlinde</td></tr>
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It is anticipated that litigation may begin soon. Please read more about the project here:
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AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-5550769801434881342015-10-02T06:14:00.000-07:002015-10-02T08:55:15.412-07:00Cease and Desist Served, First Movement Launch: Moving Forward with "Blued Trees"<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">October 1, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">CONTACTS: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Margery Newman, Publicity & Communications,
212-475-0252, </span><a href="mailto:MargeryNewman@aol.com"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">MargeryNewman@aol.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Aviva Rahmani, Eco-Artist; </span><a href="mailto:GhostNets@ghostnets.com"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">GhostNets@ghostnets.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Blued Trees Serves
Cease-and-Desist on Fracked-Gas Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As Next Phase of Eco-Art Project
Debuts Oct. 4<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Algonquin receives notice to halt forest
destruction,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">as </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Blued Trees<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Symphony’s First Movement is about to
launch<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blued Trees</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a symphonic art installation
encompassing visual and musical art forms in concert with nature. The project
was conceived by ecological artist Aviva Rahmani to move the function of art
beyond witnessing or illustrating ecosystem devastation and into direct policy
engagement. Rahmani was invited by New York residents-cum-activists faced with
condemnation and seizure of properties and beloved places by fracked-gas
pipeline corporations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As corporations are leveraging the legal tool of
“eminent domain,” Rahmani is contesting the justice of that leverage with the
sword of copyright law. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blued Trees</i>
is being copyrighted by Rahmani in discrete movements, as it grows in scale. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blued Trees </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">consists of trees in the line of
destruction on which a blue sine wave is painted. One such tree is one note in
the symphonic score. One-third mile of these notes constitutes one full
measure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A</span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Cease-and-Desist Demand has been served by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blued Trees</i> on the Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC. That corporation
seeks to condemn the private property in Peekskill in Westchester County, NY, on
which the overture for the project was installed on June 21, and copyrighted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The overture was created on land that has been
owned by a small group of families for four generations. That property lies in
the path of the Algonquin Incremental Markets (AIM) pipeline for “natural” gas,
planned by Algonquin and its parent company, Spectra Energy Partners, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to span four states: New York, Connecticut,
Rhode Island and Massachusetts. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The pipeline is also slated to pass just 105 feet
from vital structures at the Indian Point nuclear facility, 30 miles from New
York City. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Additional
measures and “Greek choruses” have joined the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blued Trees</i> orchestra from 11 other sites internationally since the
summer solstice overture launch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On Sunday, Oct. 4, a number of simultaneous events
in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blued Trees</i> Symphony/Saga will
unfold: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blued Trees’</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> First Movement </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">will formally commence with
a full 1/3-mile measure of the score being painted and performed in the rural
Town of Augusta and Town of Kirkland, NY, threatened by the Dominion New Market
Pipeline and Niagara Expansion Project of TGP/Kinder Morgan. Additional</span><span style="font-family: Arial; text-indent: -0.25in;"> measures are joining the orchestra from the New River Valley
of Virginia and Nassau, NY.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">These
new sites will be included in the second copyright filing. Five movements in
total, over the next year, complete this symphony, with the Coda planned for
fall 2016. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
words of Pope Francis, delivered at the United Nations General Assembly on
Sept. 25, resonate with Rahmani and other <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blued
Trees </i>participants: “Any harm done to the environment…is harm done to
humanity.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Individuals
and groups whose properties lie in the path of fossil-fuel infrastructure are
invited to join the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blued Trees</i> “Greek
Chorus.” Detailed instructions are at: </span><a href="http://pushingrocks.blogspot.com/2015/09/painting-full-measure-of-first-movement.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">pushingrocks.blogspot.com/2015/09/painting-full-measure-of-first-movement.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">NOTE TO EDITORS &
PRODUCERS:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
To arrange an interview with Rahmani, participating landowners, attorneys or
painters, please contact Margery Newman, </span><a href="mailto:MargeryNewman@aol.com"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">MargeryNewman@aol.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, 917-608-6306. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">View
a short video about the project at</span> <a href="https://vimeo.com/135290635" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/135290635</a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">See
map with locations and photos of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blued
Trees</i> Symphony and Greek Chorus pieces </span><a href="http://www.gulftogulf.org/map/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">http://www.gulftogulf.org/map/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">View
a graphic from the Spectra Corporation’s website of Spectra AIM project path at
</span><a href="http://www.spectraenergy.com/Operations/New-Projects-and-Our-Process/New-Projects-in-US/Algonquin-Incremental-Market-AIM-Project/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">spectraenergy.com/Operations/New-Projects-and-Our-Process/New-Projects-in-US/Algonquin-Incremental-Market-AIM-Project/</span></a>.<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Blued Trees</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> is an element of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gulf to Gulf,</i> a fiscally sponsored NYFA
project, which has since 2010 investigated how art might impact climate change
policy, </span><a href="http://www.gulftogulf.org/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">gulftogulf.org</span></a>.<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">More
information about Aviva Rahmani is at </span><a href="http://www.ghostnets.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">ghostnets.com.</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Blued Trees is moving forward with the next stage of the symphony, the First Movement, taking place at two new sites in New York State and sites in Virginia. They will launch October 4, 2015. The next legal steps are also being initiated to protect the site of the overture un Peekskill. I will post more soon.</div>
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10 Thousand Steps Bookstore, 516 E, 11th, NYC</div>
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for a poetry event, where the <i>Blued Trees </i>film will be shown.</div>
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Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/235429/using-art-to-stop-a-pipeline/<o:p></o:p></div>
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Artsy: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/oqv4by8"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">http://tinyurl.com/oqv4by8</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Please contribute to The Defense of Blued
Trees: </span></i><a href="http://tinyurl.com/o2hk5t8"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #386eff; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">http://tinyurl.com/o2hk5t8</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Support the symphony: </span></i><a href="http://tinyurl.com/o3y4en4"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #386eff; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">h</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #386eff; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">ttp://tinyurl.com/o3y4en4</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u style="text-underline: #386EFF;"><span style="color: #386eff; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u style="text-underline: #386EFF;"><span style="color: #386eff; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Film: </span></u></b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/o8twbej"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">http://tinyurl.com/o8twbej</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-29103577256076600232015-09-20T11:18:00.001-07:002015-09-21T19:50:05.634-07:00For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the battle was lost. For want of a battle the war was lost ... or not?<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">All over but the shouting? I couldn't raise the $$ fast enuf or secure a lawyer brave enuf to beat their clock in Peekskill. They may or may not have succeeded in gaining permission to destroy the <i>Blued Trees</i> overture, but the project will carry on. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, read this and weep for the sacrificed trees and the habitat that protects our water.<span style="color: #10131a; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #10131a;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #10131a;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They may or may not have won this battle, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #10131a;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">but this is going to be a long war.</span></span></span></div>
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The property the<i> Blued Trees </i>overture launched on has been taken by eminent domain by the Spectra corporation, and excavation, including cutting down the painted trees, is scheduled to begin October 1, 2015.<br />
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September 15, 2015, in anticipation of this possibility, I wrote some colleagues, "<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt;">If we fail, I cannot emphasize enuf how
important it will be to get the best possible photographs of each painted and
copyrighted tree as they are destroyed. They are our Joan of Arcs that must
become symbols of corrupted American laws created to protect the public domain
from unlawful seizure, environmental laws designed to protect water, habitat
and wildlife and copyright laws to uphold the rights of art and artwork;
political malfeasance and dishonesty; indifference to beauty; and the media
failure to alert the public to a devastating menace. One day, those photographs
may be our only evidence to take these corporations to the United Nations for
environmental war crimes. Sadly, it may be too late for the habitats, and many
people who will be sickened and die from the consequences."</span><br />
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Eminent domain and the fossil fuel co-option of the United
States has proceeded unchecked. But no longer, invisibly. There will be four more movements of the <i>Blued Trees </i>symphony. The first movement will be October 4, 2015 in Utica, New York. The sonata form of the symphony will be a dialog between life and death.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;">The deeper I got into the dynamics of fossil
fuels the scarier it got and the more determined I felt to carry on.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #453ccc; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Excerpt from my FB page:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10131a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“… was just alerted to this
statement on another pipeline's public page, which just about sums up their
arrogance: "FPL, Sabal Trail and Florida Southeast Connection, which are
subsidiaries of NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Inc., are multi-billion dollar
entities that possess the power of eminent domain. <b>Eminent domain allows these utility
companies to condemn private property for easements in order to install their
natural gas pipeline.</b> These utility companies are represented in Florida by two
law firms. These utility companies also have their own appraisers, engineers
and other experts as they deem necessary working on their behalf to acquire the
property for the pipeline." What I love is their semiotics: Algonquin,
Independence, Constitution, Dominion, NextEra."</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt;">A
colleague from the UK asked how this was any different than statements from Shell,
Chevron, et al and whether I’d researched them? I replied, “</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">not
in depth. What I found stunning in the quote I posted was their language around
eminent domain, which at least in the USA, is gutting the Constitution, even as
they name their pipelines "the Constitution.”’ </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The reason I think this is important in a wider
sphere is because the Reagan era “trickle-down theory,” has fueled the global
.0001% phenomena, which in turn makes the potential effect of any given
ecological art project, ie., <i>Blued Trees</i>, that much more of a David (or
Davida) & Goliath contest to save the planet from ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I often find myself in conflict about the very
making of art, because it requires us to enter such a reflective state, even as
the planet is being tortured and we face such anguishing loss. These days, I
work very hard at living in gratitude & service even as I feel my grief.
This quote turned my head because it was so shameless in its evil. Perhaps, as
I think you insinuate, they are all equally, shamelessly evil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Another UK colleague asked how eminent domain
is granted if there’s due process with the Fifth amendment? I answered that, “granting
eminent domain is a legal process, which has become politicized and is
well-funded by the right from fossil fuel coffers. Since the Eisenhower period
in the USA, the right’s think tanks have devoted vast sums of money, time and
manpower, largely from corporate coffers, to how to promote the military
industrial complex to consolidate power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">1. For some decades, the right has been packing
the judicial system with corporate friendly judges by financing their electoral
campaigns and then politicizing those campaigns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">2. For some time, the right has financed a
marketing campaign that has convinced the electorate that fossil fuels cannot
be easily replaced, therefore what is good for fossil fuels is good for the
electorate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">3. The Federal Energy Regulatory Committee
(FERC), which approves fossil fuel regulations has been manned by fossil fuel
executives for some time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">4. The left who has supported alternate world
views, has been disorganized, fraught with egocentric competitions and
short-sighted about strategic planning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">5. The American educational system has been
gutted, making it easier to promote agendas based on shallow thinking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">6. The Supreme Court of the USA has declared
corporations are individuals with rights of free speech and unlimited political
funding potential, greasing all of the above<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">7. American loved R. Reagan and swallowed the
trickle down theory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">8. Racism has fueled environmental injustice,
so natural gas lines, for example, when located in poor, often back
communities, are uncontested. veiled by promises of jobs, that are short term
and usually destroy the ecosystems and communities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">9. The media has been gutted, people don’t have
time to read, so reporting on these matters has essentially disappeared or is
ignored or buried under pr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Functionally, what happens is a corporation
applies for a permit to FERC to do something. FERC approves (rubber-stamps) the
permit. Work begins, often before eminent domain is granted. Landowners are
offered money, often large sums, to give up their land. When problems emerge,
having granted easement, they can no longer legally protest without risking
jail. Holdouts are then shunted thru the courts, who routinely condemn the land
for the “public good.” Often personal threats accompany this process. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">In <i>Blued Trees</i>, I went into debt to get
an LLC, to afford myself minimal protection. So far, I’ve spent $20,000, of my
limited funds to go forward. The legal process, just to begin, will cost
$80,000. I have 2 crowdfunding campaigns to try to raise the funds to go
forward. The corporations accelerated the
condemnation process on lands where <i>Blued Trees </i>was or will be installed.
“Normal” citizens don’t have any of these options to fight back any of this. Et
voila, eminent domain prevails over the Fifth amendment.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10131a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">This is what taking people's
property for profit and planetary destruction looks like, now that the judgement on the
land for the "Blued Trees" overture has come in:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10131a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">"Plaintiff Algonquin Gas
Transmission, LLC ("Algonquin") has filed 22 related cases for
eminent
domain actions in connection with its construction of a natural gas pipeline.
In each
case, <b>Algonquin seeks an Order of Taking, declaring that it has the
substantive right to take the
permanent and temporary easements on the
properties that it seeks to acquire</b>.
Of the 22 cases, 16 have settled (3 by
entry of an Order of Taking; 13 by voluntary
dismissal pursuant to Federal Rule
of Civil Procedure 41(a)(l)(A)(i)) and 1 by stipulating to a
partial
settlement). Algonquin has moved for partial summary judgment against
defendants in 5
of the 6 remaining cases. The time for responding to these
motions has passed for all 5 of these
cases; only the Reynolds Hills
Defendants, in Docket No. 15-cv-5988, have filed any opposition
papers.
For the
reasons set forth below, all of the motions for partial summary judgment are
GRANTED.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">GRANTED.
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<span style="color: #10131a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Algonquin was designated and
approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
("FERC") to
construct and operate a natural gas pipeline and associated facilities in New
York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Pursuant to the Natural Gas
Act, 15 U.S.C., §717
et seq., (the "Natural Gas Act", or the
"NGA"), FERC issued a Certificate of Public Convenience
and Necessity
(the "FERC Certificate") on March 3, 2015, authorizing Algonquin to
construct
what is referred to as the Algonquin Incremental Market Project
("AIM Project").<b>
The Natural Gas Act explicitly authorizes a natural
gas company like Algonquin to
acquire property interests by condemnation when
it is unable to acquire them by agreement with
the property owner. </b>15 U.S.C. §
717f(h). Thus, Algonquin filed a Verified Complaint to acquire
easements needed
to construct the AIM Project on various parcels of property
("Property")
owned by various defendants.
Completion of the AIM
Project is time-sensitive. FERC directed that project
construction be completed
by November 1, 2016. Algonquin asserts that the easements it seeks
must be
acquired <b>in time to allow pre-construction preparation to begin no later than
October 1,
2015.</b></span><span style="color: #10131a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><b>"</b></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
AvivaRahmanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06924817372361385274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059390280020420479.post-27137745917372636682015-09-10T05:53:00.002-07:002015-09-10T09:01:23.105-07:00Hot off the press about "Blued Trees"So thrilled to share the first significant press in the widely circulated and respected <a href="http://hyperallergic.com/about/?ref=nav">Hyperallergic</a> by Jillian Steinhauser, about <i>Blued Trees</i> and the multi site October 4, 2015 launch of the first movement:<br />
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<a href="http://hyperallergic.com/235429/using-art-to-stop-a-pipeline/">Please read and share</a>:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">http://hyperallergic.com/235429/using-art-to-stop-a-pipeline/</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f8VOiZ0KvY0/VfGpKAYzaGI/AAAAAAAABS8/CYdR3zG4APA/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-09-10%2Bat%2B11.59.38%2BAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f8VOiZ0KvY0/VfGpKAYzaGI/AAAAAAAABS8/CYdR3zG4APA/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-09-10%2Bat%2B11.59.38%2BAM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hyperallergic headline on "Blued Trees"<br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
<a href="http://hyperallergic.com/235429/using-art-to-stop-a-pipeline/">.</a></div>
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