Created by Gaia Project, URBAN/ECOLOGY is a cross-disciplinary environmental arts project. Our primary objective is to promote the Gaia Project ‘art-ecology’ philosophy to the wider public and to put this on Liverpool’s cultural agenda in 2008.

We will endeavour to achieve this by working with a group of artists who will collectively exist as the URBAN/ECOLOGY project team. Selected artists have been invited to engage with specific locations throughout the city, the central focus of this interaction will be the ecological and environmental characteristics of the given places.

Natural phenomena will provide the inspiration! Liverpool’s ‘urban ecology’ is made most visible and accessible to us through the wildlife in parks, rivers and other green spaces for example. Evidence of this thriving ecology is also sometimes visible in places of dereliction and urban decay - brownfield spaces that exist on the very margins of public use and accessibility.

How we interact with this urban ecology and how we use these spaces is infrequently an issue addressed in the arts from a historical, social and environmental perspective. It is these green pockets and marginalised in-between spaces that will be the primary subject for Gaia Project in Liverpool.

The priority for the artists will be to publicly encourage an understanding of the crucial relevance that ecology has in our daily lives, and subsequently to explore how climate change is affecting the environments in which we live.

Gaia Cabinet
17 The Colonnades
Albert Dock Liverpool L3 4AA
07731 434 515

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Please note: Gaia Cabinet will be open to the public 25 October – 30 November 2008. Please visit our website for information on our programme of free events and details of how to get involved. Gaia Cabinet will be an alternative display space that will have a dual function:

1) as an informal working studio area for the artists, and

2) as an open public site for interaction, learning and the exchange of information. In this context, public engagement will be facilitated through a programme of various activities such as discussions, workshops and film screenings.

The form and content of the Gaia Cabinet will change according to what each artist produces and co-ordinates over the duration of the project.