Feet to the Fire
About this original series
Feet to the Fire: Exploring Global Climate Change from Science to Art, is an eighteen-month project which includes: research opportunities for a team of students and faculty to explore first-hand the effects of global warming, fieldwork studies in art and science, performances, pedagogical exchanges in existing courses, commissioning of artists, and convening of experts. The project is funded in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. It is one of only eight grants given to challenge campus-based performing arts presenters to integrate their programs more organically within the academic environment.
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# Episodes
22 episodes -
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Episodes of Feet to the Fire
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Green Street Afterschool Program
This sixteen-week course, co-taught by artist Fred Elmore and scientist Jenny Royer, occurred twice a week in the Green Street Arts Centers afterschool program and aimed to explore and promote an understanding of global climate change issues. Using common household items and recycled waste, students simulated climate change phenomena such as the greenhouse effect, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels and produced artwork that was displayed at the Feet to the Fire Festival on May 10, 2008. (...
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Release date
Sep 27, 2009
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Runtime
01:45
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E&ES 359: Global Climate Change
Professor & Chair of Earth and Environmental Science Department Johan Varekamp co-created a module with Tula Telfair, Associate Professor of Art and Art History entitled The Colors of Climate Change, which investigated the portrayal of the environment in landscape painting. The section specifically focused on time periods of great environmental change such as the little ice age and industrial air pollution. This part of the course studied how color choice reflects processes and examined the me...
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Release date
Sep 27, 2009
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Runtime
03:20
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Student Forum
During the Spring 2008 semester, students led by Rachel Fischoff, 08 and Alexandra Provo, 10 studied visual and movement-based artworks relating to the environment (including earthworks and more socially conscious projects), and then presented work at the Feet to the Fire Festival on May 10, 2008. (Video by Adrian Nieves) http://www.wesleyan.edu/feettothefire
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Release date
Sep 27, 2009
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Runtime
02:16
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The Rice Show
Of All The People In All The World is a fascinating performance/art installation that uses grains of rice to bring formally abstract statistics to startling and powerful life. In this captivating exhibition, each grain of rice is equal to one person and you are invited to compare the one grain that is you to the millions that are not. Over a period of days a team of performers carefully weigh out quantities of rice to represent a host of human statistics. The statistics and their juxtaposition...
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Release date
Sep 27, 2009
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Runtime
03:48
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Music from Siberia: Klavdia and German Khatylaev
The Khatylaevs perform a fascinating and little known musical repertoire rooted in the animist and shamanist traditions of their native Yakutia, a.k.a. Sakha, the vast region of north central Siberia whose fragile ecology is now under increasing pressure from rampant natural resource extraction. Using jaw harps, archaic fiddles, percussion, and a variety of extended vocal techniques, the Khatylaevs create a magical soundscape that represents the dynamic forces of spirit and nature in tradition...
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Release date
Sep 27, 2009
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Runtime
04:24
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DANC 309: Advanced Modern Dance Technique
Assistant Professor of Dance Katja Kolcio added a Feet to the Fire module to DANC309 Advanced Modern Dance Technique III. The module focused on points of view pertaining to 1) how bodies/selves function, 2) how dance skills are cultivated and 3) how moving bodies/people relate to the larger environment. Based on these principles, her module explored more deeply how the physical and contemplative practice of dance serves as a medium for the investigation of the environment, how an investigation...
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Release date
Sep 27, 2009
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Runtime
01:57
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Green Movement by Ann Carlson
Part Greek chorus, part Doris Humphrey movement choir, part tongue in cheek, part cynical take on the notion of "green"...a ritual, a quirky, silent response to climate change. Maybe it could happen anywhere, at places where consciousness was being raised or needed raising around humanity's relationship with the Earth, and specific places on the Earth. - Ann Carlson on Green Movement Green Movement was commissioned by Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts and Environmental Studies Program ...
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Release date
Sep 27, 2009
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Runtime
04:20
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Alter(ed)native Approaches: Middletown Lives
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Gina Ulysse designed a Feet to the Fire module with printer/ bookmaker Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. in her new service-learning course: ANTH232 Alter(ed)native Approaches: Middletown Lives. Students worked with Kennedy to create a manifesto. (Video by Adrian Nieves) http://www.wesleyan.edu/feettothefire
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Release date
Sep 27, 2009
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Runtime
01:33
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ARST 436: Architecture II (SplitFrame)
Assistant Professor of Art & Art History Elijah Huge designed a Feet to the Fire module in ARST436 Architecture II where students studied bird migration habits in order to inform a design/build of a bird-blind that was unveiled at the Feet to the Fire Festival and permanently installed at the Helen Carlson Wildlife Sanctuary in Portland, CT. (Video by Adrian Nieves) http://www.wesleyan.edu/feettothefire
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Release date
Sep 27, 2009
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Runtime
02:19
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Civil Society in Comparative Perspective
Assistant Professor of Government Mary Alice Haddad incorporated a Feet to the Fire module into GOVT/EAST382 Civil Society in Comparative Perspective. Haddad worked with Visiting Instructor Eiko Otake to create a module that explored this topic through movement. (Video by Adrian Nieves) http://www.wesleyan.edu/feettothefire
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Release date
Sep 27, 2009
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Runtime
02:51
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