E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions) :: March 15 – May 3, 2008 :: Opening: March 15, 7-9 pm :: Exit Art, 475 Tenth Ave, New York, NY.

E.P.A. is the first project of S.E.A, a large-scale program dealing with current environmental concerns and the way artists respond to them. E.P.A is a group exhibition surveying recent performance work from around the world that addresses current environmental crises. The exhibition will consist of videos, photographs, texts, related ephemera and a film program documenting recent performances. For this opening project Amy Lipton and founder/co-curator Patricia Watts of ecoartspace — a leading international environmental arts organization — are collaborating with Exit Art on the organization and presentation of this material.

E.P.A. will include performance documentation from more than 30 international artists. These works, created in the public sphere, draw attention to and engage the public in a dialogue about issues such as climate change, watersheds, urbanization and, ultimately, human survival. E.P.A. will set the precedence for future exhibitions of S.E.A. dealing with environmental issues including The End of Oil, about the global oil crisis and alternative energy, and Consume, about food production, agricultural and sustainable living practices. An exhibition of historical social-environmental art works is also planned to place this work in context.

ARTISTS: Brandon Ballengée, Vaughn Bell / Sarah Kavage / Nicole Kistler, Mark Brest van Kempen, Carissa Carman / Joanna Lake, Susanne Cockrell /Ted Purves, Xavier Cortada, Carrie Dashow / Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, Erica Fielder, Ozzie Forbes, Futurefarmers, The Center for Tactical Magic, Fritz Haeg, Amy Howden-Chapman, Basia Irland, Scot Kaplan, Carolyn Lambert, Robin Lasser, Kathryn Miller, Miss Rockaway Armada, Matthew Moore, Eve Mosher, EcoArtTech: Cary Peppermint / Christine Nadir, Andrea Polli and Joe Gimore with Dr. Patrick Market, Rapid Response (Cobb / Fend / Fischer / Meyer), James Reed and Social Sculpture Research Unit / Earth Agenda Projects, Austin Shull, Brooke Singer / Brian Rigney Hubbard, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Chris Sollars.

Ecoartspace is one of the leading international ecoart organizations established as a non-profit in 1999. Providing a platform for artists addressing environmental issues, Ecoartspace promotes a diverse range of artworks that are participatory, collaborative, interdisciplinary and educational. Their philosophy embodies a broader concept of art in its relationship to the world and seeks to connect human beings aesthetically with the awareness of larger ecological systems.