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<p> Camley Street Natural Park Wetland</p> <p> Kings Cross development with Camley Street Park on left and Saint Martins College of Art above it and to it&#39;s right</p> <p> Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London</p> <p> Vancouver, BC., Canada with Stanley Park situated on the western end of the city</p> <p> Stanley Park&#39;s 1000 acre forested park sits alongside Vancouver&#39;s residential West End neighbourhood.</p> <p> Berlin Botanical Gardens and Museum</p> <p> Interior of one of the many glass houses holding collections of plants from around the world</p>
<p> Camley Street Natural Park Wetland</p>

Camley Street Natural Park Wetland

This touring exhibition, WILD NEW TERRITORIES, features work by a broad cross-section of contemporary artists from a variety of geographic regions, showcasing new visual art, media and performance works created by the artists to resonate with the exhibition themes. These works will explore the relationship between the urban and the wild, reflecting on issues related to an uncertain environment and it’s potentially collapsing ecosystems. The exhibition will occupy gallery spaces as well as outdoor spaces in restored or protected wild lands in London, Berlin and Vancouver.

The theoretical stepping-off point for the exhibition presents themes that reflect the complex interconnectedness of all things, ultimately linking cultural and environmental ecologies. The previously accepted nature/urban binary will be challenged, and each artist will bring diverse perspectives to the multifaceted and unresolved relationship between urban growth and the environment with all its ecological and social implications. Contemporary art has the ability to assist us in seeing such issues in fresh and provocative ways. By locating art in some of the world’s most creative urban habitat restoration initiatives, this multi-platform exhibition enters “wild new territories,” both physically and metaphorically, generating new ideas in understanding the proposed thematic.

In London, the exhibition will take place September – October 2012 at Camley Street Natural Park under the auspices of London Wildlife Trust, located in the heart of the burgeoning Kings Cross, Euro tunnel development with an opening night screening of video art, a live performance event, with a panel discussion to be held at Canada House in Trafalgar Square on the 18th of September 2012.