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'Pumpkin', Yayoi Kusama, Naoshima Art Island, Japan


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About the project

The Nauru Project was an artists' collaboration based around the South Pacific island of Nauru, the world's smallest island-nation. The project involved exchanging and gathering online findings on Nauru, obscure islands, experimental micro-nations, island-related art projects, and the production of artwork among a group of artists and online Nauru enthusiasts. It began as part of Maria Georgoula's MFA research at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London and was run between 2007 and 2017.

Artists

  • Carmel Keren
  • Caroline Bird
  • Christopher Robbins
  • Dan Coopey
  • Ian Whitfield
  • Iori Wallace
  • Jorge Manes Rubio
  • Maria Georgoula
  • Lo Hillarp-Sjöström
  • Roger Palmer
  • Polyxenie Savva
  • Thanassis Petropoulos

Nauru Reading

  • The Republic of Nauru
  • Paradise Lost - A short documentary on the history of Nauru
  • Nauru country profile (BBC)
  • Nauru facts (CIA)
  • Nauru (Wikipedia)
  • Ναουρού - Βικιπαίδεια
  • Country Brief (Australian Dept of Foreign Affairs)
  • Nauru Tourism
  • Paradise for Sale (Amazon)
  • Nauru's Downfall from rich nation to poverty (News.com Australia)
  • South Pacific Tragedy (Independent)
  • The Billion Dollar Shack - New York Times
  • Nauru, L'Ile Devastee by Luc Folliet
  • Ναουρού, το Ρημαγμένο Νησί του Λύκ Φολιέ, Τοποβόρος Εκδόσεις Εξαρχείων
  • Journalist Johnny Colt visits Nauru I
  • Journalist Johnny Colt visits Nauru II
  • John Fearn (Wikipedia)

Art/Exhibitions/Events

  • Winter Garden by Roger Palmer at the Tetley
  • Nauru Project Presentation & Workshop at Frown Tails ReMap 3 with Maria Georgoula
  • The Nauru Project at Frown Tails, ReMap 3. Performers Polyxenie Savva & Thanassis Petropoulos
  • The Nauru Project at Southwark Playhouse. Performer Sonja Byrne
  • Dan Coopey's Nauru inspired video at Agency Gallery
  • The Nauru Project at the Slade School of Fine Art
  • The Spirit of the Island by Caroline Bird

Self-Declared/Experimental Micronations, Small Islands, Atolls

  • New Foundlands, Fictional States, Cabinet Magazine, Issue 18, Summer 2005
  • List of Micronations
  • First Summit of Micronations Helsinki 2003
  • The Empire of Atlantium
  • The Principality of Sealand
  • Wirtland
  • The State of Sabotage
  • Westartica
  • The Palm Artificial Islands, Dubai
  • Kymaerica
  • Hutt River Principality
  • Maldives Atolls Development
  • Nova Roma
  • Boatswain Bird Island
  • Caroline Island
  • Twelve Abandoned Islands by Atlas Obscura
  • Islands for Hire
  • BBC Scotland Island Blogging
  • Recycled Island
  • Fair Isle
  • Ascension Island
  • Tuvalu Islands
  • Terminal Island
  • Ouessant Island, Britanny
  • The Journal of Coastal Research
  • The Kingdom of Elgaland-Vargaland
  • Global Islands Network
  • Island Resources Foundation
  • Islands UNEP
  • Small Island Developing States Programme
  • International Small Islands Studies Association
  • Small Island Cultures Research Initiative
  • Small Islands Voice
  • Islands of Globalization
  • Oceanic Culture Museum
  • South Pacific Travel Blog
  • World Island Info Blog
  • Salon Du Livre Insulaire

Island-related Art Projects, Art Residencies on Islands, Art as Expedition

  • Montecristo Project, Sardinian Coast
  • Tinos Quarry Platform, Tinos Island, Greece
  • The Morning Boat, Art Residency, Jersey Island
  • Lofoten International Art Festival, Norwegian Archipelago
  • Meeting the Odyssey, An artistic sailing project from the Baltic to the Mediterranean
  • LABVERDE - Art Immersion Programme in the Amazon
  • The Setouchi Triennale, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
  • Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition on the Isla Del Coco, Costa Rica
  • The Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Academy
  • Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Captiva Island, Florida
  • The Lighthouse Works Residency, Fishers Island, New York
  • Fogo Island Arts, Canada
  • Shona Projects on Eileen Shona Island, Scotland
  • An Suileachan Residency, An Lanntair Arts Centre, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
  • Cape Farewell
  • Indianapolis Island Residency, Indianapolis Museum of Art
  • The Eternal Internet Brother/Sisterhood
  • A-Z Pocket Property Island by Andrea Zittel
  • Art on the Islands of Naoshima, Teshima and Inujima, Japan
  • Island_Built Event by Aristide Antonas & Filippos Oreopoulos
  • Container Artist Residency
  • New Artist Residency, Iceland
  • The Island Resignified Residency, Lefkada, Greece
  • Tara Sea Expeditions on Climate Change by agnes b.
  • The Island Series by Olafur Eliasson
  • The Inujima Art Project
  • 'New Foundlands' by George Pendle (Cabinet Magazine)
  • Surrounded Islands by Christo & Jeanne-Claude
  • The Virtual State of NSK
  • Headless by Goldin & Senneby
  • The Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation & Tanna Centre for the Arts
  • The Bumpkin Island Art Encampment - Berwick Research Institute
  • Rabbit Island Residency
  • Bird Island by Janice Kerbel
  • Utopia Project, Rethymno, Crete
  • Eisbergfreistadt
  • 'It's my Island' by Antti Laitinen at Nettie Horn Gallery
  • Kahn & Selesnick

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Literature & Other

  • Failed States; A Journal of Indeterminate Geographies by Jamie Atherton
  • Iles Tragiques. Histoires Terribles et Magnifiques by Hugo Verlomme, David Konig & Valerie Paille
  • Island by Aldous Huxley
  • The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G.Wells
  • The Nauruan by Peter Hansen
  • Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Utopia by Thomas More
  • The Centre for Land Use Interpretation
  • The Institute of Unnecessary Reseach
  • European Artistic Research Network
  • Atlas Obscura
  • Amateurist Network
  • The Horniman Museum
  • Doxa Collective
  • Furtherfield.org
  • Cabinet Magazine

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      • Empire of Atlantium article in Atlas Obscura
      • 'Pumpkin', Yayoi Kusama, Naoshima Art Island, Japan
      • Do-Ho Suh, Seto Inland Sea Islands, Japan
      • Tomaz Kramberger, Susak Island, Croatia
      • Dan Graham, Lofoten Islands, Norway
      • Not Vital, Lago General Carrera Island, Argentina
      • Ekkehard Altenburger, Isle of three, Scotland
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