The importance of biodiversity – Lukas Feireiss

02.03.2012 – 6.30pm

Studio X, Kitab Mahal, Fourth Floor 192, D N Road, Fort Mumbai 400 001

LUKAS FEIREISS presents “The Imaginarium”
Architecture BRIO, Robert Verrijt & Shefali Balwani “Works: Aesthetics, Technological Innovation & Sustainability”

ZNE! artist and creator of the collaborative work The Imaginarium: A theatre for constructed ecologies, Lukas Feireiss, discusses the idea behind the imaginarium, which portrays ecologically responsible and sustainable projects and approach of a new generation of international architects and town-planners.

…refreshments will be served…

Website: Studio Lukas Feireiss, Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, Luis Berríos-Negrón

Nirupam Bajpai, Adrienne Goehler

13.02.2012 – 6pm

Studio X, Kitab Mahal, Fourth Floor 192, D N Road, Fort Mumbai 400 001

Macroeconomist & Director, S. Asian Program (Columbia University Earth Institute’s Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development Nirupam Bajpai in conversation with curator Adrienne Goehler on individual action and alternate energy resources.

Goethe Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan K. Dubash Marg, Kala Ghoda Mumbai 400 001

20.02.2012 – 18:00 h, film & discussion: The Himalayan Meltdown

Registration at 18:00 pm
free admission for Asia Society members, others: Rs. 100/-
Admission: Rs. 100/-

A documentary co-produced by UN Development Programme, Discovery Asia and Arrowhead Films. The film shows the impact of human consumption on the melting of glaciers and the influence on communities in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India and Nepal.

In collaboration with Asia Society India Centre

Goethe Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan K. Dubash Marg, Kala Ghoda Mumbai 400 001

Directed by Kavita Pai | Produced by Mohile Parikh Center and ArtOxygen | Supported by Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai0

6.03.2012 – 18:30 h | Land of Mine, 20122

A public art documentary, filmed in January 2012, which describes the connection between the countryside and the city, as well as the numerous declinations of territory, land, landscape and heritage.

3.02.2012 – 06:30 h | The Fluid City, 2011

A public art documentary shot in January 2011. It highlights interventions, actions, and performances by seven artists that question the paradoxical role of water in Mumbai. Drawings of the city’s history and geography focus on the social, political, environmental, and economic dimensions of water.

Admission free

Goethe Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan K. Dubash Marg, Kala Ghoda Mumbai 400 001

09/07/02/01.03.2012 – 18:30 h
The Yes Men Fix The World – USA 2009, 95 min.

Admission free

The 13 European long and short film productions in the Klima.Kultur.Wandel series focus on the social dimension of climate change: humans as the cause, as the sufferers, but also as the key to the solution. In a variety of ways, an arc is drawn from the causes to the possible solutions of climate change, from the individual to society, from the local to the global.

Goethe Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan K. Dubash Marg, Kala Ghoda Mumbai 400 001

10.03.2012 – 18:30 h
The Yes Men Fix The World – USA 2009, 95 min.

Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr
Admission free

A film chronicling the culture-jamming exploits of The Yes Men, a group of artist-activists, focusing on the making and reception of their work The New York Times Special Edition, an integral part of examples to follow!

‘The Yes Men’, Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos, are also known as Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano. From their office in Milwaukee they have spent the last few years using subversion to try and shake up the world, or at least the USA, They have become the bugbears of big corporations and their machinations.mFor the project “The Yes Men Fix the World,” the duo produced a special edition of the New York Times, with only positive news. The film presents the project and public reaction to it. It is moderated by Alemayehu Seife-Selassie, Media Division Head Proworks Multimedia.

Website: The Yes Men