Links to published material on The Blued Trees Symphony
Blued Trees Links:
GIS Mapping:
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a85bf0d635384e879499ec736bc2aa8a
Website
www.gulftogulf.org webpage with map of Blued Trees locations: http://www.gulftogulf.org/project_item/blued_trees/
"Using ecological art to spark environmental conservation" interview with Kamea Chayne on the Green Dreamer podcast: https://greendreamer.com/podcast/aviva-rahmani-ecological-artist aired July 11, 2019.
The Art of Protecting Lands: Aviva Rahmani a State of the Art podcast https://art19.com/shows/state-of-the-art/episodes/41e5ab5d-611a-47f8-9238-c262581562df recorded April 8th, 2019
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: https://www.facebook.com/TheWorkFM/videos/349790569212554/ April 2nd, 2019
“Artist Series: Aviva Rahmani’s work with VARA, land use and environmental law,” The Art Law podcast, interview with Steve Schindler & Katie Wilson-Milne http://artlawpodcast.com/2018/11/08/artist-series-aviva-rahmanis-work-with-vara-land-use-and-environmental-law/#more-472 November 8, 2018
“Making the trees sing: Using art to try to stop pipelines” Day 6 CBC Radio Canadian Broadcasting, http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/making-the-trees-sing-using-art-to-try-to-stop-pipelines-1.4634839 April 28, 2018
“Artist Blocked Pipeline with Blued Trees Symphony,” Earth911, interview by Mitch Ratcliffe https://earth911.com/podcast/podcast-may-7-2018/ May 7, 2018
“Interview with Aviva Rahmani” on the Environmental Art Podcast
hosted by Ariel Garber: https://soundcloud.com/rielarber/aviva-rahmani-interview
May 26, 2017.
Interviews (with/without audio):
“One-on-One” in Canvas Magazine November/ December 2019 issue https://files.constantcontact.com/9f11d50b001/975c5636-d9d3-477d-a7f4-184088263fd1.pdf
“Conversations Aviva Rahmani’s “Blued Trees Symphony” A NYFA Interview https://current.nyfa.org/post/178288450088/conversations-aviva-rahmanis-blued-trees posted September 20, 2018.
Edited Interview with Mitch Ratcliffe of Earth911: https://earth911.com/inspire/artist-blocks-fracking/ May 8, 2018.
Written articles:
Matuseviciute, Rugile. “Artist Uses Art To Stop Construction Of A Gas Pipeline” https://www.demilked.com/artist-uses-art-to-stop-construction-of-a-gas-pipeline/
April 26, 2018.
Sutton, Benjamin “Testing the Legal Power of Art to Stop a Pipeline”
https://hyperallergic.com/439553/aviva-rahmani-cardozo-school-of-law-stop-a-pipeline/
April 24, 2018
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?” Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
Volume 15, Issue 1, Article 3 https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1268&context=njtip Spring 2017
Stambouli, Anissa. “Trash Talk, Eco-Activist Artwork and Sustainable Creativity” published by the online magazine, INSPADES https://astamdesigns.org/2017/07/11/trash-talk-eco-activist-artwork-and-sustainable-creativity/ December, 2016.
Rossi, Izzy. “Local Activists Use Art to Block Pipeline” Collegiate Times
online publication available at: http://www.collegiatetimes.com/news/local-activists-use-art-t.blockpipeline/article_33bfd510-ae9a-11e6-8034-1719d6c51df1.html
November 19, 2016.
Lim, Audrea. “How Land Art Lived and Died to Stop a Fracked Gas Pipeline and How It Lives Again” Village Voice available at: https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/06/29/how-land-art-lived-and-died-to-stop-a-fracked-gas-pipeline-and-how-it-lives-again/
June 27, 2016.
Averett, Nancy. “An artist uses her creativity to fight the construction of natural gas pipelines,” Earth Island Journal online publication available at: http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/copyrighting_nature/ June 16, 2016 originally published here: http://www.goethe.de/ins/cz/prj/fup/en15648790.htm
Kaplan, Isaac. “This Nonprofit Is Willing to Bet That Art Can Change the World” Artsy, online publication available at: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-nonprofit-bet-art-change May 1, 2017.
Denson, Roger. “Earth Day EcoArt Confronts Deforestation, Fracking, Nuclear Hazards In Eastern US Woodlands,” Huffington Post online publication available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-roger-denson/earth-day-ecoart-confront_b_9721354.html April, 21, 2016.
Williams, Wes. “Landowners Put Hope in Art Project to Combat Pipeline,” WVTF.org online publication available at: http://wvtf.org/post/landowners-put-hope-art-project-combat-pipeline#stream/0 April, 19, 2016.
Rahmani, Aviva. “The Spirit of Change: Water, Policy and Ecological Artmaking” Center for Humans and Nature online publication available at: http://www.humansandnature.org/the-spirit-of-change 2016
Gresham. Hunter. “Art Raises Awareness about Trees in Pipeline's Path” Virginia Tech website posting, available online: https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2016/11/110816-dsa-bluedtrees.html November 4, 2016.
Collins, Shay. Aviva Rahmani’s Blued Trees and the Fight Against Pipelines” The Cornell Daily Sun http://cornellsun.com/2015/12/03/aviva-rahmanis-blued-trees-and-the-fight-against-pipelines/ December 3, 2015.
Rahmani, Aviva. “Blued Trees on the front lines journal excerpts” The Brooklyn Rail available at: https://brooklynrail.org/2015/11/criticspage/blued-trees-on-the-front-lines-journal-excerpts November, 5th, 2015.
“Using copyright law as an artistic strategy” by ikonotv on tumblr https://ikonotv.tumblr.com/post/130191702053/using-copyright-law-as-an-artistic-strategy September 30, 2015.
Blue Fractivism: The New Green by Tom Shepstone (natural gas industry shill) denigrating Blued Trees project: http://naturalgasnow.org/blue-fractivism-the-new-green/ September 20, 2015.
Bogok, Gusti. Art and Activism: The Blued Trees symphonic movement to put “public” back in “public benefit” http://readersupportednews.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32089 August 28, 2015
Videos:
“Can Art Stop a Pipeline?” about the Blued Trees Project and “I Speak for the Trees, A Mock Trial”: http://www.abladeofgrass.org/fieldworks/can-art-stop-pipelinefeaturing-artist-aviva-rahmani/
“Blued Trees” https://vimeo.com/135290635 Videographer and editor Denise Petrizzo
“PIPELINE - 19 - BLUED TREES” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbJKUI9S_w&list=PLW8EgxbXUQCGRJkTVDiF-q6ukGNaMgcgg&index=20 Documentary by Marino Colmano.
“Blued Trees Music” First movement of a symphony for performance: https://vimeo.com/154011018
Other links:
Talking About Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art and Sexual Violence panel with Lynn Hershman Leeson, Suzanne Lacy, Nancy Princenthal (wav file recording: https://tinyurl.com/sqzjt7v
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC): https://lmcc.net/artist/aviva-rahmani-arts-center-residency-2019/
A Blade of Grass (ABOG): http://www.abladeofgrass.org/lay-of-the-land/blade-grass-announces-2017-abog-fellows-socially-engaged-art/
Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviva_Rahmani